Vienna hotel intimidated into canceling Israeli Apartheid Week event
‘A hotel in Vienna has canceled a presentation by a human rights lawyer after intimidation by anti-Palestinian activists.
BDS Austria was due to host Salma Karmi-Ayyoub, a lawyer and consultant for the human rights group Al-Haq, at Arcotel Kaisserwasser this Wednesday, on the topic “Apartheid and its applicability to Israel/Palestine.”
But on Friday, the hotel management canceled its contract with BDS Austria, forcing the group to move the event.
The hotel had received “incessant calls, some by those identifying themselves as representatives of the Jewish community in Austria,” BDS Austria said in a Facebook post.’
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