AUSTRIAN BANK SHUTS TERROR ACCOUNT OF PRO-BDS AUSTRIAN-ARAB CENTER:

The Austrian financial giant Bawag closed the bank account of the pro-BDS Austrian-Arab cultural center (OKAZ), which hosted a Palestinian terrorist in Vienna in April 2016. A spokesman for NY-based investment firm Cerberus - the principal owner of the Bawag bank - told Israeli media sources on 7 June 2016, that the account was closed. OKAZ is part of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement targeting the Jewish state. Georgia Schütz, a spokeswoman for Bawag's headquarters in Vienna, confirmed Wednesday: "We can verify that there are no customer relationships with OKAZ anymore. Due to Austrian banking secrecy we are not able to disclose any reasons or background." OKAZ held an April 2016 event with the convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled, who is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The EU and the USA both classify the PFLP as a terrorist organization. Khaled hijacked American TWA flight 840 in 1969. A year later, she hijacked EL AL flight 219. (J.Post)