deviousdiva on May 26th, 2009

A recent article on the aquittal of Plevris, the self-described nazi, fascist, racist and anti-Semite, is posted at Comment is Free in the Guardian Online.

In other words, although he wrote extensively about the advantages of Jews being killed en masse, he didn’t really intend for any to be killed. The trouble with this argument is: [...]

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deviousdiva on April 30th, 2009

The Antinazi Initiative have launched a campaign to ask the Greek government to take a stand over the acquittal of Plevris. Please take some time to go to their website and read about the case and then send emails to the leaders of four main political parties.
Democrats in Greece and in Europe
On March 27 2009, [...]

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deviousdiva on April 21st, 2009

Following the acquittal of self-proclaimed Nazi, fascist, racist, anti-democratic, anti-Semite Plevris on appeal, there have been some angry reactions and concerned statements made in the press. There is one issue that still needs to be made clear to everyone. In a statement from the European Jewish Congress, it is alleged that
a Greek appeals court [...]

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deviousdiva on March 31st, 2009

I have written about the Plevris trial several times on this blog. Mr. Plevris is a “writer” and
I declare from the outset that I am a Nazi and a fascist, racist, anti-democratic and am an anti-Semite
(From his book “Jews – The whole truth”)
For background from this blog, please read here, here and here
He was taken [...]

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deviousdiva on January 21st, 2009

There have been several anti-Semitic attacks in Greece over the past few weeks. These attacks have involved the desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Athens, defacing a Holocaust monument in Corfu, attacks on synagogues and anti-Semitic articles in the Greek media. The latest outrage occurred a few days ago in Ioannina with another desecration of [...]

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deviousdiva on November 6th, 2008

I know I shouldn’t be by now, but I am actually shocked by this headline from the Greek newspaper Avriani. On the election of Barack Obama as the next President of the US, the front page of the paper reads
THE END OF JEWISH DOMINION

Please go to Abravanel to read the full article.
Let’s set something clear: [...]

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deviousdiva on August 25th, 2008

Abravanel writes about the latest disturbing incident of anti-Semitism in Greece that was captured on video and posted to YouTube last Friday. The video shows a young man urinating on a holocaust memorial on the island of Rhodes. It was posted by a “group of students from the Venetokleio high school of Rhodes”. The headmaster [...]

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deviousdiva on July 28th, 2008

[Related to the previous post about copper recycling in that it gives an insight into news reporting versus racist drivel]
The Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) has won another victory under the anti-racism law (Law 927/79) here in Greece. The case was against the publisher, editor and columnist of the right-wing newspaper Eleftheros Kosmos (Free World), who [...]

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deviousdiva on March 11th, 2008

From the Greek Helsinki Monitor:
The publisher Dimitrios Zafeiropoulos, editor Theodoros Georgiou (tried in abstentia) and columnist Theodoros Hatzigogos of the far-right weekly newspaper Eleftheros Kosmos were convicted of antisemitism yesterday.
They were found guilty for the violation of anti-racism Law 927/79 because in a 12 March 2006 text, “with undoubtedly offensive phrases, on the one [...]

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deviousdiva on January 14th, 2008

Via Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights
Attacks on human rights activists in Greece by supporters of Plevris.

Since the end of the trial, K. Plevris launched a series of legal actions against P. Dimitras, GHM activist Andrea Gilbert and the four members of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) Moses Konstantinis, Benjamin Albala, Abraham Reitan, and [...]

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deviousdiva on January 8th, 2008

Following my post about the Greek Helsinki Monitor and KIS activists who have been targeted by the neo-nazi defenders of Plevris, I would like to offer you some insight into some of the opinions of Professor Maria Tzani of Capodistrian University of Athens (Pedagogical Department of Primary Education) who testified in the trial.
GHM notes that [...]

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deviousdiva on December 14th, 2007

A short while ago I wrote about anti-semite and holocaust denier Kostas Plevris who was taken to court over his book “Jews: the Whole Truth”. The post sparked a long discussion that turned into a (mainly) anti-immigration thread. This was unfortunate because it was an historic trial for Greece, the first to be tried [...]

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deviousdiva on December 5th, 2007

From the Associated Press
Greek far-right historian on trial over allegedly anti-Jewish book
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A far-right Greek historian went on trial Tuesday for allegedly inciting racial hatred with a book that denies the Holocaust took place and allegedly contains offensive references to Jews. Jewish community leaders testified at an Athens court that the book [...]

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deviousdiva on November 27th, 2007

Via the Greek Helsinki Monitor. Please download and read the whole article. The following is copy/pasted from that document.
Greece: Anti-Semitism and the ongoing Plevris – “Eleftheros Kosmos” trial
The Plevris - “Eleftheros Kosmos” trial will start again on 3 December 2007. The spectacle, on 11 September 2007, of a courtroom packed with neo-Nazis and their supporters, [...]

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deviousdiva on November 16th, 2007

I wanted to point out this comment from the anti-Nazi initiative in Greece on this post:
Anti-fascist friends, this is no ordinary trial.
It is not a trial in which a small minority group of Nazi racists are denounced by democratically-minded people and punished by the authorities in some European country.
It is not just a [...]

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