Via the BBC
Two British men have been arrested in connection with arson attacks on a medieval synagogue on the Greek island of Crete. The two men, who have not been named, are being held in the coastal town of Hania. A Greek man is also in custody and two Americans are being sought. Hania’s Etz [...]
Via Reuters
Greek police on Friday arrested two Britons and a Greek man in connection with two arson attacks against a synagogue on the Aegean island of Crete this month.
Police said they were still looking for a U.S. citizen, who is suspected of setting fire to the synagogue in the city of Chania on January 5, [...]
UPDATE: The same synagogue was targeted again on Saturday, destroying much more than the previous attack.
Via CBC News
A synagogue on the Greek island of Crete was hit by arsonists for the second time in three weeks, police said Saturday.
The attack happened in the city of Chania when an unknown number of people entered the building, [...]
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: [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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