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February 26, 2019

Greece Has Few Jews, but They Are Still Blamed for Political Problems

The second desecration of a monument, and the third of a Jewish cemetery.

During the Nazi occupation of Thessaloniki, a large Jewish cemetery was destroyed to make room for what is now Aristotle University. In long-overdue recognition of the fact, a commemorative monument was installed on the university’s campus. The monument was vandalized in 2017, and again in January—this time with particular viciousness, apparently by a group of several people who smashed much of it to pieces. Devin Naar comments:

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