[MGSA-L] A Greek Bishop’s Anti-Semitic Tirade

[June Samaras]

See the TV interview here :

http://www.megatv.com/koinoniaoramega/default.asp?catid=20695&subid=2&pubid=20517756
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December 22, 2010, 1:30 pm
A Greek Bishop’s Anti-Semitic Tirade
By ROBERT MACKEY

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/a-greek-bishops-anti-semitic-tirade/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Updated | 7:19 p.m. Leaders of Greece’s small Jewish community
objected on Wednesday to televised remarks by a Greek Orthodox bishop
who blamed the country’s financial problems on a conspiracy of Jewish
bankers and claimed that the Holocaust was orchestrated by Zionists.

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece complained to church
authorities about the anti-Semitic remarks made by the Metropolitan
Seraphim of Piraeus during an interview on Greek television on Monday,
according to a statement (in Greek) on the group’s Web site.*

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that the bishop “said that
there is a conspiracy to enslave Greece and Christian Orthodoxy. He
also accused international Zionism of trying to destroy the family
unit by promoting one-parent families and same-sex marriages.”

According to the news agency, when the bishop was then asked, “Why do
you disagree with Hitler’s policies? If they are doing all this,
wasn’t he right in burning them?” he replied: “Adolf Hitler was an
instrument of world Zionism and was financed from the renowned
Rothschild family with the sole purpose of convincing the Jews to
leave the shores of Europe and go to Israel to establish the new
Empire.” He added that Jewish bankers like “Rockefeller, Rothschild
and Soros control the international banking system that controls
globalization.”

Greece’s Jewish community is ancient, but only about 10,000 Greek Jews
survived the Holocaust.

The president of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, called
for the bishop to be fired in a statement sent to reporters on
Wednesday. He added: “It is completely unacceptable that someone
senior in a mainstream European religious denomination can make such
repulsive and hate-filled claims.”

The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants
sent this statement to The Lede:

    Holocaust survivors are aghast at the hate-filled remarks of
Metropolitan Seraphim and call on the Greek Orthodox hierarchy to
remove him from his position. We also demand that the Greek government
prosecute him under its laws against incitement to hatred. Greece
itself, which suffered grievously under Nazi occupation, is slandered
by Metropolitan Seraphim’s bigotry. His remarks constitute a brutal
assault on the memory of all Nazi victims, Jew and non-Jew.

Earlier this year, the bishop wrote to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II to
demand that Elton John be stripped of his knighthood for telling
Parade magazine, “Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay
man.” The bishop also complained to Britain’s ambassador to Greece
about the singer’s “unacceptable and absurd” comment, which, he said,
had caused “deep pain and bitterness.”

*Thanks to the reader who sent us a link to video of the complete
interview with the bishop from Mega TV in Greece.

http://www.megatv.com/koinoniaoramega/default.asp?catid=20695&subid=2&pubid=20517756

Even non-speakers of Greek can clearly see the shock on the face of
the television host (at about 13 minutes into the interview) when the
bishop explained his theory of Zionist complicity in Adolf Hitler’s
extermination of the Jews.
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