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Austrian broadcaster ORF has fired one of its editors after the employee posted an anti-Semitic statement on Facebook.
Both parties have agreed to terminate their employment relationship, and ORF CEO Roland Weissmann has called the publication "completely unacceptable" and apologized on behalf of the public entity, according to the DPA news agency.
Specifically, the message—which has since been deleted from the social network—read: "If I've been a victim for 2,000 years, I should slowly start to reflect on why."
The author of the statement himself has retracted his words and apologized for a statement that "he wouldn't have allowed anyone else to say," he said.
The Jewish community of Austria has condemned the incident and called for consequences for such messages , asserting that "a red line has been crossed. Anyone who speaks like this is committing the classic antisemitic inversion of the aggressor and the victim," stated the Jewish Community of the Austrian states of Salzburg, Styria, and Carinthia.
