Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff: Difference between revisions

'''Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff''' (born 1971)<ref name="pokorny">{{cite book|url=https://rw-ktf.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_religionswiss/Religion_in_Austria._An_Annotated_Bibliography_of_2020_Scholarship__Lukas_Pokorny_2021_.pdf|title=Religion in Austria: An Annotated Bibliography of 2020 Scholarship|pages=302, 308|first=Lukas|last=Pokorny|publisher=University of Vienna|year=2020}}</ref> is an Austrian [[counter-jihad]] activist.<ref name="georgetown">{{cite web|url=https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-elisabeth-sabaditch-wolff/|title=Factsheet: Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff|date=3 June 2019|work=Bridge Initiative|publisher=Georgetown University}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://qantara.de/en/article/controversial-manifesto-against-new-anti-semitism-france-cutting-suras-suit|title=Controversial manifesto against "new anti-Semitism" in France: Cutting Suras to suit|work=Qantara.de|date=18 May 2018|first=Farid|last=Hafez}}</ref> She was the applicant of the hate speech trial ''[[E.S. v. Austria (2018)|E.S. v. Austria]]'', brought before the [[European Court of Human Rights]].<ref name="pokorny"/> Before she became involved in the counter-jihad movement, she held positions at the Austrian embassies in Kuwait and Libya, and in the Austrian ministry of foreign affairs.<ref name="georgetown"/>

Sabaditsch-Wolff has been active in the [[Citizens' Movement Pax Europa]], the [[International Civil Liberties Alliance]],<ref name="hope">{{cite web|url=https://hopenothate.org.uk/2018/01/11/what-is-counter-jihadism/|title=International counter-jihad organisations|date=11 January 2018|work=Hope not Hate}}</ref> [[ACT for America]], and has worked with [[Katie Hopkins]].<ref name="georgetown"/> In this capacity she has been part of a delegation that has worked to "counter Islam" at the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (OSCE).<ref name="georgetown"/> She hasparticipated beenin featuredall extensively onof the annual international counter-jihad blogconferences ''[[Gatesheld offrom 2007 Vienna]]''to 2013,<ref name="georgetownhope"/><ref>{{cite andbook|url=https://expo.se/file/2254/download?token=_JSo7wjG|title=Counterjihadrörelsen– hasen participateddel inav severalden ofantimuslimska the official international countermiljön|first=Martha|last=Hannus|pages=67-jihad76|year=2012|publisher=Expo conferencesResearch|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221101144939/https://expo.se/file/2254/download?token=_JSo7wjG|archive-date=1 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EjolDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA86|pages=86–92|title=Understanding the Populist Shift: Othering in a Europe in Crisis|first1=Gabriella|last1=Lazaridis|first2=Giovanna|last2=Campani|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2016|isbn=9781317326069}}</ref> and has been featured extensively on the counter-jihad blog ''[[Gates of Vienna]]''.<ref name="georgetown"/> In 2010 she spoke in Israel alongside [[Geert Wilders]] at the invitation of former MK [[Eliezer Cohen]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/world/elisabeth-sabaditsch-wolff-speaks-up-for-israel-1.44489|title=Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff Speaks Up for Israel|date=10 December 2010|work=The Jewish Chronicle}}</ref> and she posed for photographs together with [[Donald Trump]] and [[Frank Gaffney]] at the launch of [[The United West]] in Florida in 2011.<ref name="georgetown"/> In 2016, she was knighted by the [[Knights of Malta]].<ref name="georgetown"/> She was invited to meet with Kansas Secretary of State and Trump advisor [[Kris Kobach]] in 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/03/09/elisabeth-sabaditsch-wolff-convicted-hate-speech-against-muslims-meets-trump-advisor-kris|title=Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, Convicted of Hate Speech Against Muslims, Meets with Trump Advisor Kris Kobach |date=9 March 2017|work=Southern Poverty Law Center}}</ref> She has been interviewed regarding her legal case by [[Jeanine Pirro]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M72QDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Elisabeth+Sabaditsch-Wolff%22&pg=PT182|title=Radicals, Resistance, and Revenge: The Left's Plot to Remake America|page=182|first=Jeanine|last=Pirro|publisher=Hachette UK|year=2019|isbn=9781546085171}}</ref>