From “Jewification” to “Islamization”: Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Austrian Politics Then and Now
<p class="first" id="d54853e67">The content of right-wing populism is currently built largely upon Islamophobic mobilization, whereas, before the Second Republic of Austria, anti-Semitism was the principal content of populism in Austria. This article...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2019-03-01
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Series: | ReOrient |
Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/reorient.4.2.0197 |
Summary: | <p class="first" id="d54853e67">The content of right-wing populism is currently built largely upon Islamophobic mobilization,
whereas, before the Second Republic of Austria, anti-Semitism was the principal content
of populism in Austria. This article engages in a comparative discussion of the anti-Semitic
propaganda deployed by political parties before the rise of the Austrofascist state
and National Socialist rule in Austria and Islamophobic propaganda in present-day
Austria. Specifically, the article compares the anti-Semitic discourse of “Jewification”
that circulated between 1876 and 1934 with the current Islamophobic discourse of “Islamization,”
which is used by political parties such as the right-wing populist Freedom Party of
Austria (FPÖ) and the Christian democratic Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), which together
currently form the coalition government in the Republic of Austria. This article comparatively
investigates anti-Semitic and Islamophobic
<i>topoi</i> to consider what continuities and shifts have occurred within the imagining of the
(Oriental) Jewish and Muslim “other.”
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ISSN: | 2055-5601 2055-561X |