{"id":7165,"date":"2013-07-15T08:55:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T08:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7165"},"modified":"2013-07-15T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T08:55:41","slug":"adl-urges-greece-to-reconsider-appointment-of-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7165","title":{"rendered":"ADL urges Greece to reconsider appointment of minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7166\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/adonisgeorgiadis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7166\" alt=\"Adonis Georgiadis \u2013 now Health Minister of Greece \u2013 during his TV show \u2018Greek Awakening\u2019\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/adonisgeorgiadis-300x133.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/adonisgeorgiadis-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/adonisgeorgiadis.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adonis Georgiadis \u2013 Health Minister of Greece \u2013 during his TV show \u2018Greek Awakening\u2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Greece\u2019s Health Minister nationalist Adonis Georgiadis has a history of remarks about Jews and has promoted anti-Semitic book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern on Friday over the appointment of Adonis Georgiadis as Greece\u2019s Health Minister, due to a history of troubling remarks about Jews and his public promotion of an anti-Semitic book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to reports, Georgiadis has said in the past that \u201call major banks belong to the Jews\u201d and that \u201cthe Jewish lobby\u201d would determine the fate of Greece\u2019s foreign debt. He has also promoted an anti-Semitic diatribe called \u201cThe Jews, the whole truth\u201d written by Konstantinos Plevris, a prominent author and self-proclaimed anti-Semite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAt a time when anti-Semitic speech and Holocaust denial continue to occur regularly in public and political discourse in Greece and as Golden Dawn\u2019s leaders openly espouse anti-Semitism to stoke hatred and fear while their party is rising in popularity, the elevation of a politician who is also known to have promoted anti-Semitism is troubling,\u201d said Abraham H. Foxman, the ADL\u2019s national director. \u201cOur concern is heightened by the ongoing failure to enact a stringent anti-racism bill despite the government\u2019s public commitment to do so.\u201d\u2026 &#8211; Haaretz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece\u2019s Health Minister nationalist Adonis Georgiadis has a history of remarks about Jews and has promoted anti-Semitic book. The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern on Friday over the appointment of Adonis Georgiadis as Greece\u2019s Health Minister, due to a history of troubling remarks about Jews and his public promotion of an anti-Semitic book. According to reports, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ADL urges Greece to reconsider appointment of minister&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[3926,8,3927],"class_list":["post-7165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-adl","tag-greece","tag-nationalism"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/adonisgeorgiadis.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7168,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions\/7168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}