Raise anti-Semitism with Greek PM, human rights group asks Obama

Porast antisemitizma u Grčkoj-  grupe za ljudska prava traže pomoć Obame prilikom sastanka s grčkim premijerom

WASHINGTON (JTA) – Human Rights First asked President Obama to raise the issues of hate crimes and anti-Semitism with the prime minister of Greece when the two leaders meet.

Elisa Massimino, the president and CEO of the U.S.-based group, urged Obama in a two-page letter Tuesday to ask Prime Minister Antonis Samaras during their meeting on Thursday to “speak out more forcefully to counteract the negative anti-Semitic and xenophobic discourse.”

Elisa Massimino, predsjednica CEO, grupe koja ima sjedište u USA, tražila je pismeno  od Obame da u toku sastanka sa premijerom Grčke Antonisom Samarisom  " govori o jačim protuakcijama na negativne antisemitske i ksenofobne pojave".

Pismo je posebno ukazalo na političku partiju "Golden Dawn", koja drži 7% mjesta u grčkom parlamentu,  jer je zapaženo da " njeni predstavnici  upotrebljavaju nacističke simbole, odavaju počast  nekadašnjim  njemačkim nacističkim liderima i anažirani su u jakoj ksenofobnoj retorici".

U Grčkoj živi  oko 5.000 Židova.

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“The significant presence in local and national governments of a party that openly espouses racist and anti-Semitic views and policies is a disturbing dimension of anti-Semitism’s continuing presence and a formidable obstacle in the path of efforts to confront it,” Massimino wrote.

Human Rights First cited the U.S. State Department’s 2012 report in which racist violence against foreigners, migrants and Roma was called “the most import human rights problem” in Greece. Its letter also was sent to National Security Advisor Susan Rice and others in the State Department.