Austrians Face Jail Time for Waving Israeli Flag - CBN News Dale Hurd

Austrians Face Jail Time for Waving Israeli Flag

01-10-2018

CBN News Dale Hurd

Three pro-Israel activists face fines and jail for waving an Israeli flag at an anti-Israel rally in Vienna.

 

Austrian police are seeking a €100 fine or two days in jail for each of the protestors who showed their support for Israel at a December 8 anti-Israel rally that featured anti-Semitic slogans and death threats against Jews.

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The charge against them states the activists "showed an Israeli flag at a rally in an extremely provocative way and manner that was visible for participants at the rally and thereby produced considerable offense and provocation among the Palestinian protesters."

 

Anti-Israel protestors were reportedly yelling the Muslim battle cry to massacre Jews: "Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is returning," and "Death to Israel."

 

When the three pro-Israel counter-demonstrators unfurled the Israeli flag, a scuffle broke out with Palestinian demonstrators.  Police reportedly confiscated the Israel flag but permitted anti-Israel protestors to wave Palestinian and Turkish flags.

 

One of the activists, identified as "Matthias F." by Vice News, said the charge against them is "unbelievable. We simply held a flag." He said the men plan to appeal the penalty.

 

"It can't be that anti-Semitic slogans can be hollered and go unpunished while showing an Israeli flag is reason to be fined."

"Austrian" or "Australian," What's the Difference? Plenty If You Were a Soldier Fighting in Palestine in WWI

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)

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"Austrian" or "Australian," What's the Difference? Plenty If You Were a Soldier Fighting in Palestine in WWI Posted: 27 Mar 2014  Jewish soldiers in the Australian (sic) Battalion standing next to the Western Wall, 1916. (Harvard  Library/Central Zionist Archives)  The soldiers were actually from Austria. The photographer, Ya'akov Ben-Dov, moved to Palestine  in 1907 from Kiev. He was drafted into the Ottoman army during World War I and served as a photographer in Jerusalem World War I was not only waged in Europe, but across the Middle East as well. The armies of Turkey, Germany and Austria fought the British Empire's armies from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and India.  The Austrian soldiers in the picture above marched into Jerusalem in 1916. [Another copy of this Kotel photo -- damaged -- appears elsewhere in the Harvard Library collection with the correct caption of "Austrian" soldiers.] The Australians arrived in Palestine with General Allenby's troops in 1917, and were famous for their daring cavalry charge that captured Be'er Sheva before German and Turkish troops could blow up the wells of the oasis. Austrians marching into Jerusalem, 1916 (Library of Congress, American Colony Collection) Australian Light Horsemen in Jerusalem (1918)  in a badly damaged Library of Congress photo