Jewish BDS supporter to represent Holocaust survivors at Austrian event

Jewish human rights advocate Hedy Epstein has previously compared Nazi treatment of Jews to Israeli treatment of Palestinians.

Feb. 21, 2016

Austria invited Hedy Epstein, a Jewish human right campaigner and pro-Palestinian activist to represent Holocaust survivors at a panel discussion about women during World War II.

In invitations sent out Friday by the office of the president of the Austrian parliament, Epstein, who has likened Israel to Nazi Germany, was described as a peace and human rights activist. She is the only Jewish guest slated to speak at the event, scheduled to take place March 8.

Despite her Jewish background, the right-wing zionist organization Anti-Defamation League (ADL) accused her of “anti semitism” and delegitimizing Israel in response to her views and statements she made comparing the Nazi treatment of Jews to Israeli treatment of Palestinians.

Epstein has participated in several actions to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip and has signed numerous petitions by the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.

The Wikipedia entry states: Hedy Epstein (born 15 August 1924), née Wachenheimer, is a German-born Jewish-American political activist known for her support of the Palestinian cause through the International Solidarity Movement.[1] Born in Freiburg to a Jewish family, she was rescued from Nazi Germany by the Kindertransport in 1939. She immigrated to the United States in 1948, and she currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri.[2]