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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

anti-semitism in Greece

Illustrative: A Greek flag waves at Alimos beach, in southern Athens, Greece, on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (AP/Thanassis Stavrakis)
July 4, 2024, 7:04 pm
Greek police arrest 7 over attacks in May on Israeli hotel and synagogue
Four suspects, including two Iranians, accused of racially-motivated arson attack; another three arrested for throwing flammable materials at Athens synagogue
By Renee Maltezou and Yannis Souliotis
Then-Golden Dawn lawmaker Ilias Kasidiaris speaks during a rally against the construction of a mosque in central Athens, Sept. 5, 2018. (Panayotis Tzamaros/NurPhoto/Getty Images)
August 24, 2023, 12:52 pm
Prominent Greek Neo-Nazi running for mayor of Athens from his prison cell
Ilias Kasidiaris, a Holocaust denier with a swastika tattoo, is conducting radio interviews from jail
By Gabe Friedman
The vandalized Holocaust memorial at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, December 27, 2022. (Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece via JTA)
January 12, 2023, 8:49 pm
Thessaloniki Holocaust memorial vandalized for second time in weeks
Jewish community laments lack of arrests after mural in Greek city defaced with swastikas and fascist symbols: ‘Antisemites roam freely’
By AFP
The vandalized Holocaust memorial at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, December 27, 2022. (Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece via JTA)
December 31, 2022, 6:45 am
Vandals desecrate Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki for the 4th time
Swastika, white supremacist Celtic cross daubed on monument in Greek city that was home to the largest Sephardic community in Europe before the Nazi genocide
By Ron Kampeas
Konstantinos Plevris, the lawyer of a jailed ex-Golden Dawn Eurodeputy (MEP), gives a Nazi salute during a hearing in the appeal trial of dozens of jailed members of Greek neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn at Athens' Court of Appeal on October 7, 2022. (Tatiana Bolari/AFP)
October 11, 2022, 3:56 pm
Greek minister decries father’s ‘bestial’ Nazi salute in court
‘It made me shudder,’ Thanos Plevris says of gesture made by his father, who is defending a jailed far-right Golden Dawn MEP
By AFP
The lawyer of a jailed ex-Golden Dawn Eurodeputy (MEP), gives a Nazi salute during a hearing in the appeal trial of dozens of jailed members of Greek neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn at Athens' Court of Appeal on October 7, 2022. (Tatiana Bolari/AFP)
October 8, 2022, 7:59 am
Lawyer for jailed far-right Golden Dawn MEP gives Nazi salute in Greek court
Attorney makes sign during row with mother of anti-fascist rapper killed by group; a gov’t minister’s father, he has published books questioning Holocaust, calling Jews ‘sub-human’
By AFP
New Greek Health Minister Athanassios Plevris. (The Hellenic Parliament via JTA)
September 4, 2021, 7:36 pm
New Greek health minister apologizes over past antisemitic remarks
Athanassios Plevris says he has ‘absolute respect’ for Holocaust victims, having previously defended his father’s desire to see Jews in Auschwitz
By Agencies
A woman places flowers on a train wagon at the old train station in Thessaloniki, Greece, on the 74th anniversary of the roundup and deportation of its Jews to Nazi extermination camps during World War II, March 19, 2017. (Giannis Papanikos/AP)
March 18, 2021, 7:02 pm
Greece to take over presidency of International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
Foreign Ministry says first term as head of IHRA, beginning next month, has ‘particular importance’; development comes as local mural about Jewish victims of Nazis is vandalized
By AFP
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, right, is juxtaposed with Josef Mengele on the front page of the Makeleio daily in Greece, November 10, 2020. (Courtesy/Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece via JTA)
November 13, 2020, 2:50 am
Greek newspaper likens Pfizer’s Jewish CEO to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele
Daily warns readers Albert Bourla, a Greek Jew, will ‘stick the needle’ in them, calls prospective COVID vaccine ‘poison’; its publisher was convicted of anti-Semitic defamation
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: Graves in a cemetery for the Jewish community in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on May 30, 2014. (AP/ Nikolas Giakoumidis/File)
October 19, 2020, 10:00 pm
Jewish cemeteries, Holocaust memorial desecrated in Greece
‘With Jews you lose’ graffitied at monument In Thessaloniki commemorating Jews from the city killed by the Nazis, ‘Death to Israel’ found written at graveyard
By AFP
Illustrative: Graves in a cemetery for the Jewish community in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on May 30, 2014. (AP/ Nikolas Giakoumidis/File)
October 5, 2020, 10:30 pm
Greek Jewish cemetery desecrated days before neo-Nazi verdict
‘Juden Raus’ — German phrase used by Nazis meaning ‘Jews Out’ — painted on fence of graveyard in Nikaia, along with symbol similar to swastika used by Golden Dawn
By AFP
Anti-Semitic graffiti reading "Jewish snakes out" on the wall outside a synagogue in Trikala, Greece on December 31, 2019. (KIS)
December 31, 2019, 7:29 pm
Greek Jews express ‘deep sadness’ over anti-Semitic synagogue vandalism
Central Jewish Council of Greece calls on authorities to take ‘all measures’ to protect Jewish sites and combat anti-Semitism
By AFP
Head of Greece's extreme far-right Golden Dawn party Nikos Michaloliakos testifies, in the Court of Athens as part of a long-running trial over the party's activities in which he and several former party lawmakers are accused of running a criminal organization, in Athens, November 6, 2019. (Petros Giannakouris/AP)
December 19, 2019, 10:43 am
Greek prosecutor urges acquittal of neo-Nazis in murder trial
Attorney claims it has not been proven that Golden Dawn leader, other senior figures ordered the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas
By AFP
Illustrative: Children place flowers at the Holocaust Memorial commemorating the persecution of the Jewish people during World War II in Thessaloniki, Greece, January 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)
November 10, 2019, 9:49 pm
Greece to officially adopt broad definition of anti-Semitism
PM says country to use International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance description of Jew hatred
By Marcy Oster
Nikos Michaloliakos, leader of Greece's extreme right Golden Dawn party, delivers a speech during a rally commemorating a 1996 military incident which cost the lives of three Greek navy officers and brought Greece and Turkey to the brink of war, in Athens, on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)
November 6, 2019, 8:05 pm
At murder trial, Greek far-right party head pleads innocent, slams ‘conspiracy’
Leaders of Golden Dawn, an ultranationalist group inspired by the Nazis, stand accused of running a criminal organization
By AP
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