Open Letter To Ariel Muzicant : THE IKG CONTINUES TO INFLUENCE EACH BIZARRE COURT DECISION TODAY

 

Ariel Muzicant President of the Jewish Community in Vienna from 1998 to 2012

Ariel Muzicant has recently been featured in a magazine article to profile his life. Here is the opening paragraph in English and the original German.

Across from his desk in the downtown office, so always in view, hangs a huge photo of his large family. Children, children-in-law and lots of grandchildren. How many is it? "Many, but we don't count," smiles the patriarch. Ariel Muzicant doesn't want to reveal his private life at all and may even ignore his 70s. A new life began for him at 60 and he likes to talk about it.

Gegenüber seinem Schreibtisch im Innenstadtbüro, also immer im Blick, hängt ein riesiges Foto seiner großen Familie. Kinder, Schwiegerkinder und jede Menge Enkel. Wie viele es sind? „Viele, aber wir zählen nicht“, lächelt der Patriarch. Privates will Ariel Muzicant überhaupt nicht gern preisgeben und auch seinen 70er womöglich ignorieren. Ein neues Leben, das fing für ihn mit 60 an und davon erzählt er gern.

 

Here is an open letter written to Mr Muzicant with permission to be published here.

a.muzicant@colliers.at

Dear Mr Muzicant,

I have been learning of how the IKG contributed to the appalling miscarriage of justice that I refer to in the title of my email. I am one of several thousand of Beth Alexander’s supporters, and I should inform you that there is an increasing awareness worldwide of the shady activities of the IKG and the extortionate amount being provided to them by the Austrian government. The international community is appalled by what they have learned about the IKG, and is seeking to put a stop to these inflated benefits until justice is restored to Beth Alexander and her extremely vulnerable children.

It is obvious to anyone with an ounce of intelligence that a known perpetrator of domestic violence, who had been previously legally barred from the household, could not have been awarded sole custody of his children without players influencing the courts behind the scenes. Schlesinger could not have acted alone, and it is known that some of his contacts in the IKG (Konstanze Thau and Jacob Biderman) influenced court decisions in Schlesinger’s favour in 2011. It seems highly probable to the international community that the IKG continues to influence each bizarre court decision today.

Your recent interview in Wina was an interesting read, including the part about your children and countless grandchildren. I’m sure you’re looking forward to spending seder night soon with family members, and hearing a grandchild or two recite ma nishtana. Beth Alexander has never heard her own children recite ma nishtana, nor has she spent seder night, or any other chag or even a birthday with them for over a decade. Can you stop and ponder that for just a moment? She is being deliberately and systematically erased by her ex-husband out of her children’s lives.

The boys are now 12 and their bar mitzvah is coming up.They need their mother in their lives. Please will you exercise integrity and compassion, and exert the influence that you say you “naturally” possess as an “Elder Statesman” to try and reverse the terrible situation that stands today. And I think you know fully well how this can be achieved.

Yours sincerely