{"id":65579,"date":"2018-03-30T04:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.palmografos.com\/?p=65579"},"modified":"2018-03-30T04:08:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T01:08:00","slug":"vivvo-30875","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/?p=65579","title":{"rendered":"Antisemitism – Now and forever? – By Nikos Dimou"},"content":{"rendered":"

Translation by Assistant Professor at Saint John’s University, Queens, USA, Asher J. Matathias<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Tired I am of seeing Greece last on many lists. Searching for a leading position in something, I discovered it, and I am saddened. Data indicate that we\u2019re first in Europe in anti-Semitism. According to ADL-Global, 69% of Greeks harbor anti-Semitic views. The study of 1000 in a representative sample in the 2017 research done by Greek and foreign intellectuals under the aegis of the Heinrich Bell Institute. Of those, 75% believe are certain that Jews exploit the Holocaust for their own advantage; 71% believe that Jews have too much power \u2014- as citizens, as a nation, even in commerce. <\/span><\/p>\n

Close to this is the belief in every second taxi-driver that Jews rule the world. <\/span><\/p>\n

As to why we\u2019re anti-Semites the study does not enlighten us. There\u2019s, of course a tradition in the origin of Christian Orthodoxy whose churches hear the condemnation reference to perfidious Jews. We can think this to be another manifestation of our cultural negativity. We are against the established system, anti-West, anti-European, anti-German, anti-American, etc. (Only anti-Russia we aren\u2019t. Waiting for centuries, admirers of the blonde genus.) We are also first in embracing conspiracies. 80% of Greeks (DiaNeosis study), believe that our lives are directed by secret foreign centers. Therefore, Jews and conspiracies fit perfectly. Ours is one of a few European countries where the czarist fraudulent Protocols of the Elders of Zion circulate freely. There we find insinuated that Jews govern the world. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not enough that we\u2019re the leading anti-Semites, but it\u2019s three that we build our myth. That Greeks are really friends of the Jews, and that during the occupation, they helped many to escape the Holocaust. <\/span><\/p>\n

How many we “helped” are provided in statistics. Only 20-% were saved in Greece \u2014- the second worst record in Europe. The Danes saved 98.5%. Even inside Germany, 45% were saved. In Zakinthos the Metropolitan and Mayor were able to hide all Jews, demonstrating that we could have done better. <\/span><\/p>\n

20 years ago, I remember speaking to the inauguration event for the Athens Jewish Museum (after the politicians chewed the usual myths), I spoke inconvenient truths. It was the most emotional, greatest constructive experience of my life. When I finished, more than a thousand people stood to applaud endlessly. <\/span><\/p>\n

The theme of my talk was \u201c2000 Years of Loneliness.\u201d And I closed with these words: \u201cthe Jews of Greece now open their home, the house of tradition. And not only their home \u2014- they invite us in their faith, in their synagogues, as they have been saved inside their valuable museum. They show us their their art, the Holy and the mundane. It\u2019s an opportunity for us to discover them \u2014- even if after 2000 years. It\u2019s a chance to enter the tale \u2014- a tragic tale \u2014- of their history. <\/span>And for us to tell them, that no matter how many times we injured them, we want them her, near us. They are with us, the most ancient, the wisest, but also the most persecuted People of the world. It\u2019s time to end the years of loneliness.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Bravo, then, to Stavros Zouboulaki and Yannis Boutari who also dared to utter unhappy things. And to our nativists, and racists I say: the old Solomonic adage often mentioned, but rarely observed: nothing\u2019s more nationalistic than the truth!<\/span><\/p>\n

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You can find the original treatise in greek at Doncat.blogspot.gr<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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