{"id":266322,"date":"2026-01-31T01:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/266322\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:13:09","slug":"us-okays-over-6-5-billion-in-new-military-sales-to-israel-including-apache-gunships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/266322\/","title":{"rendered":"US okays over $6.5 billion in new military sales to Israel, including Apache gunships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/jewish-student-group-decries-revamp-of-statue-of-antisemitic-vienna-mayor-who-inspired-hitler\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jewish student group decries revamp of statue of antisemitic Vienna mayor who inspired Hitler<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VIENNA \u2014 The removal of a statue of an antisemitic former Vienna mayor to renovate it and then replace it at an angle drew protests this week.<\/p>\n<p>The statue in downtown Vienna of Karl Lueger, who inspired Hitler, has drawn long-standing public debate and repeated vandalism, including paint thrown on it and \u201cshame\u201d sprayed on it with graffiti.<\/p>\n<p>The statue was removed on Thursday to clean it and will be placed again on its pedestal titled by 3.5 degrees to \u201ccontextualize\u201d it under an art project chosen in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>But rights group Aufstehn says that the four-meter (13-feet)-high bronze statue should not be put back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurvivors of the Shoah and Jews have spoken out in favour of removing the monument,\u201d the group says on Bluesky, referring to the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>The project \u2014 for which the city has allocated a budget of 500,000 euros ($595,000) \u2014 is a \u201cslap in the face\u201d to the Jewish community, the Jewish Austrian Students (JoeH) says in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>JOeH co-president Lia Guttmann says it\u2019s incomprehensible to \u201cpolish\u201d the image of a \u201cdeclared antisemite\u201d and primary \u201crole model\u201d for Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>On International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, unknown activists veiled the monument, which was erected in 1926, in black demanding its demolition.<\/p>\n<p>Viennese artist Klemens Wihlidal, who came up with the project, says he wants to break the statue\u2019s \u201cheroic\u201d aura through visual irritation.<\/p>\n<p>Lueger, a social democrat who was Vienna mayor from 1897 until his death in 1910, employed systemic antisemitism as a central political strategy to mobilize voters and secure power, according to historians.<\/p>\n<p>Hitler used Lueger as an early role model and cited him approvingly in \u201cMein Kampf.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jewish student group decries revamp of statue of antisemitic Vienna mayor who inspired Hitler VIENNA \u2014 The removal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-266322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}