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The incident erupted after the taxi driver refused to transport the trio, who had reportedly entered his vehicle, chanted neo-Nazi slogans, and made the Hitler salute.
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In an interview with WINA, the centre’s director Johannan Edelman reflected on how the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 reshaped his team’s daily work, and why reporting every incident remains essential.
Rabbi Yaron Nisenholz is an experienced communal rabbi with many years of service in Israel and across Europe. He was ordained in 2002 by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and was later qualified as a city rabbi in 2023.
From early afternoon onwards, large numbers of visitors gathered to celebrate the richness and diversity of Jewish life in Vienna.
The material included messages ridiculing victims of the Nazi regime and making light of the Holocaust.
The Antisemitism Reporting Centre of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (IKG) has recorded 1,532 antisemitic incidents in Austria in 2025, marking the highest figure since records began. The data confirms a sustained and troubling upward trend that has persisted since 7 October 2023. The findings were presented on 23 April 2026 by IKG President Oskar Deutsch, […]
The strategy outlines eight areas of action and 49 measures aimed at protecting Jewish life in Austria, combating antisemitism in all its forms, and preserving the memory of the victims of the Shoah.
Far-right crimes occurred predominantly offline, with only 28 per cent taking place on the internet.
Launched in 2015 and inspired by the Swiss model, Likrat has grown into a nationally established and award-winning initiative.
Austria recorded a notably high number of antisemitic hate crimes in 2025, with courts issuing 71 convictions for offences directed at Jewish individuals. According to official data, Jews were among the most frequently targeted groups.
Born Eva Geiringer in Austria in 1929, she was a child when the Nazis annexed her country. She dedicated her life to educate people about the horrors of the Holocaust.
He stressed that the centre should not be seen as a Jewish project but as one of the Republic as a whole, underlining its national importance.
The footage, posted around the anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938, comes from a group calling themselves “Legion Vienna 18.”
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