A Nobel laureate in literature, Jewish students and other prominent figures in Austria want the country's new interior minister removed from office because of allegedly antisemitic comments he made during a regional election campaign more than a decade ago.
“If things I said then were understood ambiguously, I regret that,” said Gerhard Karner. “The comments were never in any way intended to go in this direction, and I would not make them now.”
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A Nobel laureate in literature, Jewish students and other prominent figures in Austria want the country’s new interior minister removed from office because of allegedly antisemitic comments he made more than a decade ago