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Opinion: Austria must expel Israeli envoy over call to execute Gaza children
31 March 2025 17:47 BST
Democracy and genocide cannot coexist. One must give way to the other.
Once upon a time, when a diplomat openly called for genocide, demanded the death penalty for children, and even acknowledged that such demands violated UN conventions, he would have been expelled without hesitation.
But in Austria, a country that hosts UN agencies - institutions supposedly dedicated to the principles of human rights and international law - the abnormal has become the norm.