Austrian Broadcaster Fires Editor for Antisemitic Facebook Post

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After an anti-Semitic comment from an ORF editor came to the public on Tuesday, the station drew consequences and ended the collaboration with "At the scene" editor Robert Gordon. The comment caused a wave of indignation and ultimately cost him his job. "If I am a victim for 2000 years, then I should slowly think about what this might be about, Gordon wrote in a now deleted comment on Facebook and made headlines. Weißmann: "Absolutely unacceptab…

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The editor had written a message, which is "totally unacceptable" for the ORF. He deeply regrets.

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ORF Director General described the choice of words as "totally unacceptable" and expressly asked for an apology on behalf of the company

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Austrian public broadcaster ORF has fired one of its editors over an anti-Semitic post on social media, the Austrian news agency APA reported on Friday. "If I have been a victim for 2,000 years, I should slowly think about what caused this," the now-former editor wrote on Facebook.

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After anti-Semitism accusations against a message from a long-serving ORF editor, there is now a contract cancellation. ORF General Roland Weißmann apologized in the name of ORF.