A monument honoring Greek Jews who died in the Holocaust was vandalized. In what was viewed as a protest against Israel’s military operation in the West Bank, vandals splashed the monument in the northern city of Salonika with red paint Tuesday and painted the word “Palestinians” next to the memorial.
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