Kreisky

Wasserman tells the story of the Socialist Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky, who when asked to account for his country’s spectacular post-World War II economic success said: “I explain it by our attention to export. We exported all of our economists.”

In the 1970s Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, then the International’s vice president, worked openly to cement an anti-Israel leftist consensus.

Mr. Kreisky often castigated his fellow Jews with anti-Semitic terms and Nazi analogies, while praising Arafat, Moammar Gadhafi and Hafez Assad.

Not much has changed at the Socialist International since the days of Bruno Kreisky: There is one standard for Jews, and one very different standard for their enemies.

Freimut Dobretsberger, a longtime member of the People’s Party, claims to have met every Austrian chancellor stretching back to Bruno Kreisky, a legendary figure in the country’s political scene who took over in 1970, ushering in a leftward shift in Austrian politics that has remained virtually unbroken since.