Austrian rightist slammed for anti-Semitic cartoon
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The head of Vienna's Jewish community is criticizing Austria's rightist leader for posting a cartoon showing a banker with a large hooked nose and Star of David cufflinks profiting from Europe's financial crisis.
Heinz-Christian Strache's Facebook posting showed the corpulent banker being fed delicacies by a figure dubbed "The Government." A third figure at the table, labeled "The People" — thin and poorly dressed — has a bone on his plate and looks on in dismay.
Jewish leader Oskar Deutsch said Monday the caricature depicts Jews in the way Nazi publications did under Hitler.
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Strache's Freedom Party has turned from overtly anti-Semitic slogans to opposition of Muslim immigrants. But its supporters include anti-Semites.
Strache says he is not singling out Jews but is criticizing "greedy bankers" regardless of ethnicity.