Αρθρογράφος της “Εφημερίδας των Συντακτών” υπερασπίζεται την παραχάραξη της Ιστορίας από τον Μ. Αμπάς

^{Screenshot via efsyn.gr}

Εξοργιστική και απαράδεκτη η ταύτιση αρθρογράφου της “Εφημερίδας των Συντακτών” με τις αντισημιτικές δηλώσεις Αμπάς στο Βερολίνο.

Θα υπάρξουν συνέπειες για τον αρθρογράφο ή είναι θεμιτή η σχετικοποίηση της Shoah στο όνομα της αλληλεγγύης με τους Παλαιστινίους και της κριτικής των δυτικών ΜΜΕ;

(Πολύ βολική, παρεμπιπτόντως, η εμμονή στην εφημερίδα Bild, από τη στιγμή που σύσσωμος ο γερμανικός τύπος καταδικάζει τη νέα έκρηξη μίσους του Μ. Αμπάς).

Ρεπορτάζ για τις δηλώσεις Αμπάς θα βρείτε εδώ.

Το εν λόγω άρθρο με την υπογραφή Γ.Τσ. μπορεί να διαβαστεί εδώ.

Διαβάστε επίσης: Mahmoud Abbas’s lifelong falsification of Jewish history, του David Horovitz (17 Αυγούστου 2022).

Antisemitic targeting of Pfizer CEO in Greek national daily

Via Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS):

Daily “Makeleio”, known for frequently publishing incendiary anti-Semitic articles, on November 10, 2020, circulated with yet another anti-Semitic front-page title related to the announcement made by Albert Bourla, the CEO of the Pfizer pharmaceutical company, on the upcoming vaccine for covid. The front-page (as well as the teaser of the on-line Makeleio.gr)  is illustrated with the photo of the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele next to the photo of Dr. Bourla whose Jewish faith is used in the title to disseminate stereotypical propaganda, while in the surtitle of the front-page the term “poison” is used for the vaccine.

The Greek Jewry’s outrage was expressed with the following announcement of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS), which was followed by the immediate reaction of the General Secretary for Religious Affairs, Mr George Kalantzis, who issued the statement below: [Read both statements in English here]

• Greek Helsinki Monitor has filed a criminal complaint to the Prosecutor concerning the antisemitic headline in Makeleio newspaper.

• A Greek court in October 2020 convicted the Makeleio newspaper over an antisemitic article targeting Minos Moissis, the former President of the Jewish Community of Athens.

Greek journalist trivializes Holocaust in a tweet criticizing Opposition leader

Journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, editor of “Documento” newspaper, trivialized Holocaust in a tweet criticizing Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his statement in favour of the ‘7day work week’. Vaxevanis in his tweet of May 12, 2019 used the inscription over the gate of Auschwitz “Arbeit Macht Frei” to comment on K. Mitsotakis.

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) stressed in an announcement the inappropriate use of the symbols of the Holocaust:

The use of this inscription within a political controversy and a journalistic comment is unacceptable because it downgrades, minimizes and trivializes a symbol of horror and Nazi barbarism. In Auschwitz every trace of humanity was lost and inhumanity and harrowing death prevailed. Millions of people were killed there because they were either Jews or “different”.

Read full statement here.

Kostas Vaxevanis responded here.

Νέες εξαγγελίες από Κυριάκο Μητσοτακη:

"Arbeit macht frei"

— Kostas.Vaxevanis (@KostasVaxevanis) May 13, 2019

Holocaust trivialization is a recurrent phenomenon in Greek politics. For example, a cartoon published in the leftist newspaper Efimerida ton Syntakton in July 2018 depicted the entrance to the Auschwitz death camp with the message “the 12-hour [work day] sets you free,” to protest plans for a 12-hour work day in Austria (more information).

Η λωρίδα πάνω στο συρματόπλεγμα

Σκίτσο του Μιχάλη Κουντούρη στην “Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών”

Στην Ελλάδα της ασυδοσίας του λόγου, δημοσιεύτηκε και πάλι σκίτσο που συνδέει την κατάσταση στη Λωρίδα της Γάζας με τη σημειολογία του Άουσβιτς (Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών, 10/4/2018). Προσθέτοντας ανάμεσα στα συρματοπλέγματα του στρατοπέδου συγκέντρωσης/εξόντωσης ένα κομματάκι γης και τέσσερις λέξεις, ο σκιτσογράφος έδωσε νέα ώθηση στον ιστορικό ρεβιζιονισμό της Αριστεράς. Θλιβερή και απαράδεκτη αγραμματοσύνη, λίγες μέρες πριν την Yom HaShoah.

Greek Police arrest members of Nazi group “C18 Hellas”

Credit: The Jewish Community of Athens (athjcom.gr)

Greek Counter Terrorism Police arrested 11 suspected members of violent Nazi group “C18 Hellas” last week, during an operation in greater Athens and two provincial towns.

The suspects are allegedly members of the Greek branch of the extreme right wing group “Combat 18” also known as “C18”, which operates in various countries.

A 35-year-old gas station employee from Ioannina, northwestern Greece, is believed to have led the group, ekathimerini.com reports.

“C18” is responsible for bombing attacks against anarchist and migrant related targets and has ties with another violent Greek Nazi group named “Unaligned Meander Nationalists” (Greek abbreviation: AME). Many Greek news outlets failed to mention that both organisations have signed numerous desecrations of Jewish Monuments and Cemeteries in Greece:

• Oktober 2015: The entrance of the Jewish Cemetery in Nikaia (an area outside Athens) was vandalized with threatening graffiti featuring nazi symbols. “C18 Hellas” posted pictures of the vandalism online, claiming responsibility for the action.
• December 2014: AME members scrawled swastikas and threats on the wall of the Jewish Cemetery of Larissa, posting photos of their action online.
• Oktober 2014: AME left its signature on the Athens Holocaust Monument.
• Oktober 2012: Desecration of the Holocaust Memorial of the Jews of Rhodes. The monument is located in the Old City and the perpetrators painted with paint all six sides, while they painted the swastika, adding the initials AME.

The case (that led to the Greek police counter-terrorism unit acts) was filed after complaints by Greek Helsinki Monitor, based also on articles by XYZ Contagion blog.

#Greece: The case (that led to the Greek police counter-#terrorism unit acts) was filed after complaints by Greek Helsinki Monitor based also on articles by "Xyz Contagion" blog and concerning acts of #racism & violence by #Nazi #Combat18 & "Unconquered Meanderian Nationalists" https://t.co/nmdeeODsmD

— Vassilis Tsarnas (@VassilisTsarnas) March 8, 2018

For more information: Greece: Violent fringe Nazi groups dismantled, by Panayote Dimitras (14/3/2018, hopenothate.org.uk).

Greek online publication uses antisemitic tropes against the President of the Jewish Community of Athens

Via kis.gr

[Greek version follows]

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece condemns unequivocally the malicious and vulgar insults, containing fierce racist and anti-Semitic references, launched against the President of the Athens Jewish Community Mr. Minos Moissis by the web edition of the newspaper MAKELEIO.

Another antisemitic headline by “Eleftheri Ora”

“Eleftheri Ora” just published another antisemitic and anti-immigrant headline.

The headline reads: “They are selling off our homes to Jews & illegal immigrants”

Related: Antisemitism in Greek newspaper: Ridiculous or dangerous? By Antonis Gazakis

Πλήθος αντισημιτικών σχολίων με αφορμή δημοσίευμα για περιστατικό αντισημιτισμού στην Ελβετία

Όταν ο ελβετικός αντισημιτισμός δίνει πάσα στον ελληνικό.

Anti-Semitic Greek comedian has central role in play to be staged in ancient theater of Epidaurus

Tzimis Panousis during a show with a t-shirt depicting the Star of David intertwined with a Nazi swastika.

Via European Jewish Press

By Viktor Eliezer

A well-known anti-Semitic comedian in Greece, Tzimis Panousis, will have the role of Trigaios, a peace maker in Ancient Athens, in the theatrical play ‘’Eirene’’ (Peace) by Aristophanes that will be staged in  the ancient theater of Epidaurus.

Tzimis Panousis was quoted as saying last week in an interview to the daily “To Vima”, that “we the Greeks are the new Jews of the season. Then the Nazis choose the Jews, now the Neo-Nazis, the blue family of Shoible, have chosen us, the Greeks”.

Panousis used to call the Jews as “jewdeonazis” and in 2013 issued a poster to promote his performances, in which the Star of David was identified with the Nazi swastika.

[…]

Read the rest on EJP

Tzimis Panousis and antisemitism:

1. Panousis: There are no good Jews (Abravanel, 23/6/2009)
2. Satirist Tzimis Panousis under fire over poster (Kathimerini, 25/02/2013)
3. Greece: Jewish community upset about comic’s poster (World Jewish Congress, 26/02/2013)

Greek leftist columnist denounces antisemitism surveys and demonizes Israel (once again)

Via kis.gr

In an article published on the news site enikos.gr (May 10, 2017), entitled “In bloody ink”, journalist and cartoonist Stathis (Stavropoulos) denounces attempts to incriminate criticism against Israel that present it as anti-Semitism in order to annul such political criticism. The article is accompanied by a cartoon which pictures free opinion killed by Israel. The article and cartoon were Stathis response to the publication of a survey on Anti-Semitism in Greece which shows high rates of anti-Semitic feelings in Greece.

In a statement, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece expressed the outrage of the Greek Jewry at Stathis’ antisemitic libel:

[…] And it is obvious for us that even the sharpest criticism against the policy of the Israeli Government has nothing to do with Anti-Semitism. However, when -according to a recent research, 65% of the Greeks agree with the opinion that “Israel treats the Palestinian exactly as the Nazis treated the Jews”, then all –politicians and journalists alike- need to take responsibility for reproducing the industrialized propaganda of delegitimization of the State of Israel.

“Traditional Anti-Semitism” defies and demonizes the personal right of every Jew to live as an equal member of the society. “New anti-Semitism” defies and demonizes the collective right of the Jews to live as an equal nation in the land of Israel, among the society of Nations.

Stathis’ writing and the accompanying cartoon qualify him as a genuine representative of both traditional and new anti-Semitism. It is a pity!

Read more

Relevant:

• Ariel Sharon in Nazi uniform on the cover of a collection of cartoons (7/2016)
• Popular Unity Party signes up Israel-haters and conspiracy theorists (9/2015)

Ariel Sharon dressed like a Nazi with a swastika on his arm stating “Fascism is not only the logic of killing, but primarily killing logic” appears on the cover of Stathis Stavropoulos’ collection of cartoons “The anti-fascist, anti-racist [cartoons]” (Athens 2016).