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Greece Hotbed Of Anti-Semitism, Jews Claim
Like France, Britain, Norway, The Netherlands, The Entire Muslim World,
And Everywhere Except The USA, Canada, Australia and Israel, Where Jews
Control Essentially All Public Dialogue
12/5/02 12:32:24 PM
Cleveland Jewish News
Cleveland, Ohio -- [LSN: Note this paragraph:
<p>"While most members of the Jewish community would agree that it is good
to
have an unfettered media, they would nonetheless prefer a bit more
objectivity
where their community is concerned."
<p>Translated:
<p>"While most Jews realize they have to give lip service to free speech,
they
want 'free speech' defined in such a way so that they can freely criticize
anyone they like, but any criticisms of them are heavily censored and
controlled."]
<p>http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/display/inn_news/JTA/ygreece1203.txt
<p>Report: Growing anti-Semitism in Greece
<p>By Jean Cohen
<p>ATHENS, Dec. 2 (JTA) -- Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Greece,
according
to a new report.
<p>The Greek Helsinki Monitor, a nongovernmental organization affiliated
with
the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, said in the report
that since the start of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict more than two
years
ago, ``blatant anti-Semitism" has been expressed in the Greek media ``by a
spectrum of influential personalities in politics, labor, education and
culture."
<p>The Sept. 11 attacks in the United States also contributed to the rise
of
anti-Semitism here, according to the 64-page report that was issued last
week.
<p>The report cited a sharp increase in anti-Semitism in the media after
Israel launched a large-scale military operation last spring to uproot the
Palestinian terror infrastructure in the West Bank.
<p>At that time, according to the report, mainstream Greek newspapers were
``deluged" with anti-Semitic editorials and cartoons drawing parallels
between
the Israeli military operation and the Holocaust, and comparing Israeli
Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon to Hitler.
<p>Indeed, expressions of anti-Semitism through Holocaust imagery were so
harsh in the Greek media and political circles at the time that Hronika,
the
official magazine of the Central Board of Greek Jewish Communities, spoke
of a
climate of ``hysteria and anti-Semitism" that was masquerading as mere
criticism of the State of Israel.
<p>International Jewish organizations soon stood up and took notice of the
development.
<p>In July and September, the Anti-Defamation League sent two letters to
the
Greek prime minister, Konstantine Simitis, and the foreign minister,
George
Papandreou, protesting the use of Holocaust imagery in the Greek media.
<p>During a July meeting at which European security representatives
discussed
anti-Semitism, Shimon Samuels, the director of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center's
Paris office, urged Simitis and other Greek leaders to publicly condemn
the
use of anti-Semitic stereotypes and Nazi imagery when criticizing Israel.
<p>``Anti-Israel fanaticism has degenerated into anti-Jewish hate
mongering by
leading intellectuals and politicians," Samuels said at the time.
<p>In a more recent development, the Simon Wiesenthal Center sent a letter
to
the Greek government calling on it to close down the TV station of Yorgos
Karatzaferis, the leader of the far-right Popular Rally Party. The party
recently garnered nearly 14 percent of the vote in local elections for a
district that includes the city of Athens.
<p>Karatzaferis, who regularly hurls epithets against Jews and the Israeli
ambassador to Greece on his TV station, has propagated the libel,
circulating
widely in the Arab world, that Israel was responsible for the Sept. 11
attacks.
<p>In September, Karatzaferis submitted a question in the Greek Parliament
asking the foreign minister if he was aware that the Israeli press had
published articles claiming that Jews had not gone to work on Sept. 11
after
they were forewarned about the attacks on the Twin Towers.
<p>The question was subsequently published in several right-wing papers in
Greece with no comment, while articles embracing the rumors were even
found in
editorials of the official magazine of the Technical Chamber of Greece,
the
government body that oversees the work of Greek industrialists. The
magazine
is distributed to thousands of Greek businessmen.
<p>While the Greek Helsinki Monitor portrays anti-Semitism in the Greek
media
and on the part of some politicians, observers point out that there is no
state-sponsored anti-Semitism in Greece.
<p>Just the same, the report says, ``a fundamental obstacle to
counteracting
anti-Semitism in Greece" is the fact that ``the Greek government has yet
to
take a strong and consistent stand against anti-Semitism.''
<p>The government defends itself against such charges by saying it will
not
try to censor the media.
<p>While most members of the Jewish community would agree that it is good
to
have an unfettered media, they would nonetheless prefer a bit more
objectivity
where their community is concerned.
<p>Greek Jews point out, for example, that the media barely gave any
mention
to the recent desecration of the Holocaust memorial in Salonika and of
tombstones in the Jewish cemetery of the northern city of Ioannina -- even
though, in the latter case, local police officers appeared to have been
involved.
<p>The Greek government spokesman, Christos Protopapas, condemned the two
incidents. But there was no official condemnation when the newly unveiled
Holocaust memorial on the island of Rhodes was defaced in July. JTA END
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