A lawmaker for Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party reportedly read out in parliament a passage from the anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Ilias Kasidiaris read out Protocol 19 from the book: “In order to destroy the prestige of heroism we shall send them for trial in the category of theft, murder and every kind of abominable and filthy crime,” according to Panayote Dimitras of the Greek Helsinki Monitor.
Kasidiaris was addressing parliament Oct. 23 at a discussion on lifting his immunity in connection with suspicions of assault. “There was absolutely no reaction” to this in parliament, Dimitras said, which makes “all parties held as accomplices.”
In a written statement last Friday, the Foreign Affairs Network of B’nai B’rith Europe called the manuscript’s reading in an EU parliament “a sign of moral corruption and degradation which must not be overlooked.” The silence with which the reading was received was “doubly worrisome,” the network wrote in its statement.
In June, Kasidiaris slapped female politician Liana Kanelli three times on the head during a television discussion. He was subsequently locked in a room in the studio but he knocked down the door and escaped.
If you have not been following events in Greece closely, they are SCARY AS SHIT. The Golden Dawn Party (a neo-Nazi party) won 7% of the vote in the 2012 elections and now not only holds 18 seats in the Greek Parliament, but are also in near-total collusion with the Athenian police. They have won even more support by distributing food and supplies to families badly hit by austerity measures and (of course) making immigrants, Jews, and gays the scapegoats for the economic crisis. Some polls are putting their support at 20% total, and 80% of the Athenian police force. There are widespread reports of Golden Dawn representatives terrorizing and brutalizing political enemies and members of the scapegoat groups, all while the police turn a blind eye and even encourage citizens to seek Golden Dawn’s “justice.”
Herearesomelinkstoreadmore. If this all sounds terrifyingly familiar, it should. This is one post I’d really, really like to see spread around, as not many people I speak to are aware of what’s happening in Greece.
You know that slippery slope people are always talking about?
Greece fucking threw some lube down on that motherfucker and is careening towards a disaster
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Disturbing Anti-Semitism in Greek Parliament
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