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| | Antisemitism Worldwide 2002/3 - Greece |
 | | During Easter Holy Week, for example, the Jews are repeatedly called Theoktoni (God killers) and “an impious and illegitimate people.” On 4 April 2002, Holy Easter Saturday, the state National Hellenic Television broadcast, without comment, the custom of burning a Judas effigy, although the official Greek Orthodox Church has repeatedly condemned it. |
 | | A number of ultra-nationalist, and/or religious, and/or xenophobic publications (newspapers and magazines) regularly provide a forum for antisemitic views. |
 | | One is the traditional attitude of the Greek Orthodox Church, which unlike the Roman Catholic Church, has not yet absolved the Jews for their alleged responsibility for the death of Jesus or removed such references from its liturgy. |
| www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw2002-3/greece.htm (1423 words) |
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