A Jewish member of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party is visiting Israel in an effort to improve the image of the party’s leader, Jorg Haider. “Do you really think, honestly, that in the middle of modern Europe, 27 percent of the Austrian people would support a fascist leader who hates minorities?” Peter Sichrovsky asked during a speech Wednesday.
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