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Research & Resources
Austria’s new programme for government: En route to a restrictive policy on Islam?
This op-ed by Bridge Initiative Senior Research Fellow Farid Hafez originally appeared in Qantara. The word “Islam” appears a total of 21 times in the Austrian coalition’s new programme for government, which is entitled “Zusammen. Für unser Österreich” (Together. For our Austria). By contrast, there is not one single mention of right-wing extremism or fascism in the coalition programme published…
When the Fear of Muslims Leads Jews to Whitewash the Far Right
“In Austria today, the real anti-Semitic threat is from Muslims, not Nazis,” argues Martin Engelberg, one of Austria’s first Jewish post-war members of parliament, who ran for the Liste Sebastian Kurz, the new name for the former Christian Democratic Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP). In reply, Benjamin Guttmann, from the Austrian Union of Jewish Students argued,…
Some of the Best Responses to Islamophobia in 2016
We’ve compiled some of our favorite examples, which include hardhitting journalism, socially-conscious satire, and moving social media videos that helped shed light on Islamophobia in 2016.