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    Austrian Chancellor: 'Punish author of anti-Semitic fraternity song'

    Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Thursday called for punishing with the “the full severity of the law” the authors of an anti-Semitic poem that appeared in a fraternity’s songbook, JTA reported.

    The poem, which was printed in 1997 to be used in the Germania zu Wiener Neustadt fraternity, reads, “In their midst comes the Jew Ben-Gurion: ‘Step on the gas, you ancient Germanic peoples, we’ll manage the seventh million.”

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