deviousdiva on July 26th, 2010

Via JTA Vandals painted red swastikas on the walls of the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens. The July 22 attack marked the first time that the museum has been the target of anti-Semitic expression, according to an Athens community news release. Greece has been beset by a chain of anti-Semitic events this year, including [...]

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deviousdiva on May 31st, 2010

Via the Athens News Vandals desecrated a Jewish cemetery in the Thessaloniki on the night of May 13 and three youths were arrested for the attack, authorities said on May 14. The assailants smeared graffiti in the cemetery, police said. The Central Jewish Council of Greece said the perpetrators were neo-Nazis who spraypainted anti-Semitic slogans [...]

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deviousdiva on May 26th, 2010

Athens was the only European capital that did not have a Holocaust memorial. This has now been put right. Via the Athens News The monument was jointly unveiled by Nikitas Kaklamanis, mayor of Athens, and Benjamin Albalas, president of the Jewish Community of Athens, at a ceremony attended by political and religious leaders, members of [...]

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