The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on Greece to ban an exhibition many say glorifies Palestinian suicide bombers. In a letter to Greek Prime Minister Kostas Simitis on Wednesday, the center’s director of international liaison, Shimon Samuels, wrote that the “Body Milk” exhibition scheduled for an Athens gallery “would continue to poison” the city’s climate and add to an anti-Semitic campaign under way in the Greek media.
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