Greece

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece has condemned the desecration of Thessaloniki’s Holocaust monument which took place on Sunday.

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece has unreservedly condemned the attack against the Patriarch of Jerusalem upon his visit to Bethlehem.

The Greek Jewish community has welcomed the signing of a presidential decree on authorising the go-ahead for the construction of a Holocaust museum in the city of Thessaloniki.

Twitter suspended on Thursday the account of Greece’s neo-fascist Golden Dawn party.

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, the country’s EJC affiliate, has condemned a series of insults, containing fierce racist and antisemitic references, launched against the president of the Athens Jewish community, Minos Moissis, by the web edition of the newspaper MAKELEIO.

Vandals stripped away inscriptions on the Holocaust memorial in Athens written by Elie Wiesel.