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 [...]

[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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Press release from the Greek Helsinki Monitor (For easier reading, I have inserted the links into the text)
7 April 2007
Greek state continues to promote “burning of Judas” tradition
Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) condemns the persistent promotion of the “burning of Judas” tradition by Greek state agencies, despite repeated protests by Greece’s Jewish community, official Orthodox Church [...]