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• Golden Dawn’s gains in EU election signal failure of Greece’s crackdown

  May 27, 2014 3:08pm

  Despite the arrest last year of its leaders, Greece’s Golden Dawn made gains in European elections. Does the Greek government have a strategy for beating the neo-Nazi party?

• Why is Greece the most anti-Semitic country in Europe?

  May 20, 2014 12:55pm

  It’s not just the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party that’s trafficking in anti-Semitic tropes in Greece.

• Greece’s Romaniote Jews remember a catastrophe and grapple with disappearing

  April 1, 2014 6:28pm

  The remaining Jews of Ioannina mark the 70th anniversary of their community’s deportation to Auschwitz as their numbers dwindle and Greece’s indigenous Jewish tradition fades.

• Report says Greece could ban anti-Semitic Golden Dawn party

  April 17, 2013 3:46pm

  A report released by the Council of Europe says that Greece could legally ban the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, which has been linked to a number of violent, racist attacks.

• Greek Jews protest TV airtime for neo-Nazi lawmakers

  April 15, 2013 2:18pm

  The Greek Jewish community protested to a leading Greek television channel about a program hosting four lawmakers from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party.

• Greek neo-Nazi party calls for boycott of WJC’s Lauder

  March 27, 2013 6:58pm

  The Greek Golden Dawn party called for a boycott of Estee Lauder cosmetic products after World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder urged Greece to ban the neo-Nazi group.

• Holocaust commemoration marks shift for Greek Jews in fight against neo-Nazis

  March 24, 2013 3:44pm

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, second from right, meeting with Jewish leaders, from left, David Saltiel, Ronald Lauder and Moshe Kantor in Thessaloniki, March 2013. (Michael Thaidigsmann/ WJC) More than 2,500 people, many of them non-Jews, participated in the march to mark 70 years since the deportation of the Jews of Thessaloniki, March 2013. (Michael…

• Greek soccer player gets life ban for Nazi salute

  March 18, 2013 1:41pm

  A Greek soccer player was banned for life from playing for the national team after giving the Nazi salute during a game

• Greek prime minister in shul visit vows crackdown on neo-Nazis

  March 17, 2013 11:19am

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras vowed to crack down on neo-Nazi groups.

• Thessaloniki Jews to mark 70th anniversary of Nazi deportations

  March 14, 2013 11:19am

  The Jewish community of Thessaloniki in northern Greece will hold a series of events commemorating the 70th anniversary of the first deportations of the city’s Jews to Auschwitz.