Open Letter to Oskar Deutsch : Have You No Shame?

 

 

o.deutsch@ikg-wien.at

office@ikg-wien.at

 

Mr Deutsch,

 

Have you no shame?

 

You are the president of a community in which a mother and her 2-year-old children were forcibly separated at the hands of armed police, yet you have done nothing and said nothing. Have you no shame?

 

The Jewish community in Vienna were instrumental in the corruption that instructed the courts to separate a mother from her children. Have you no shame?

 

Your speeches regularly warn the Austrian people of rising anti-Semitism, yet you are happy to be president of a community that encourages the persecution of an innocent mother and condemned two innocent children to unspeakable suffering. Have you no shame?

 

You are the first to critise the Austrian government at any hint of anti-Semitic language, yet your community were happy to deliberately propagate lies and deception about an innocent mother as a means of driving her out of the country. Have you no shame?

 

You stand at holocaust memorial events urging the world to never forget the evils that happened on the Austrian ground you stand on, yet you remain quiet when the Jewish community has directed those same courts once again, under the threat of loaded guns, to remove two crying children from their loving mother. Have you no shame?

 

The international media coverage of the Schlesinger twins has outraged the world whilst you look away, deny, claim ignorance and distance yourself from any responsibility. Have you no shame?

 

Each day during the past ten years, you have chosen to take no action in the face of such overwhelming injustice, each day you are happy to let the suffering of innocent children continue, each day you allow corruption, distortion and evil to propagate unrestrained throughout the community you represent. Have you no shame?

 

You call yourself the president of the Austrian Jewish Community, you call yourself Jewish, you call yourself human.

 

Have you no shame?