Austrian Jewish leaders compared a right-wing political party’s call for a ban on ritual slaughter to a similar Nazi law. The party calling for the ban is Austria’s Freedom Party, led by Jorg Haider. Jewish community leader Avshalom Hodik made his comparison Thursday after the party called for a ban on both Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter.
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