ATHENS – Pro-Palestinian demonstrations were carried out in some 70 locations across Greece on Aug. 10, protesting and aiming to keep Israeli tourists out of the country over Israel’s ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 61,000 people.
The events were held in Athens and cities as well as islands and smaller venues and came off without incident, with Palestinian flags – including that of a terrorist group – flown in front of the Meteora rock formation in northwestern Greece, said The Jerusalem Post.
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Anti-Israel activists interrupted a Zakynthos concert by singer Vasilis Papakonstantinou, draping a Palestinian flag across the stage but there weren’t any reports of violence after the Israeli Foreign Ministry warned Israeli tourists to be wary.
The anti-Israeli tourist actions were preceded by a July 22 protest that sought to prevent Israeli cruise ship Crown Iris from docking at Syros. The vessel successfully docked at Rhodes and Agios Nikolaos with the protection of riot police, the paper noted.
Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis criticized the protests at the dock and took aim at the demonstrators. “They have no humanity. They simply hate the West and are antisemites. If they cared about innocent victims in general, they would talk about the Druze, the Hamas hostages, the massacre of Christians in Sudan, the oppression of women in Afghanistan, etc.,” Georgiadis said on X earlier.
“They only care about Gaza because that is how they slander the Western democracies, which they hate. They don’t even care about anything that concerns Greece, of course, which they also hate.”
In a social media post, Voice of Reason Member of the European Parliament Afroditi Latinopoulou challenged activists to go to Gaza if they wanted to raise a Palestinian flag, but said that they shouldn’t do so in Greece.
N12 reported that a group of Israeli teenagers was attacked by a Turkish group in Rhodes on July 23, and on July 12 a new Athens kosher restaurant was vandalized by anti-Israel protesters as Greece, which is engaged in trade and business deals with Israel also has called for a ceasefire and for more humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Gaza Strip.
