Right-wing Austrian politician faces expulsion from her party over anti-Semitic Facebook post
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Officials of Austria's right-wing Freedom Party will meet over whether to expel one of their legislators after she backed anti-Semitic sentiments in a Facebook posting.
Susanne Winter insists she is not anti-Semitic. But the Freedom Party has called for a meeting Monday in response to last week's post in which she backed a Facebook statement by one of her supporters that said "Jews the world over are the problem."
Winter responded "nice that you take the words out of my mouth," adding a smiling and winking emoticon. She later deleted both postings and replaced it with one saying "anti-Semitic sentiments were, are, and always will be abhorrent for me."
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Other political parties are demanding that Winter resign. Freedom Party officials say they expect to decide on her fate by mid-week.