Knowing Athens artists, the envoy just fanned the flames big time. The city’s world famous for its protest graffiti and is absolutely covered in it. It’s part of the charm.
They’ve had a lot of protest dogs over the years too
Let me give you some perspective here.
First of all I wanna say I agree with the guy.
He’s trying to run for leader of Greece’s PASOK party, projected to be second in polls right now.
He is however not in the party currently running the government, which has been elected with the widest victory in recent decades. The ruling party stands firm on the side of Israel and will beg forgiveness for the mayor’s statement, strongly condemning it.
The people, however, are with Gaza.
So the Greek government is mostly pro-Israel, despite this guy making strong statements and his party backing him up, it’s mostly to posture against the current ruling party to gain in polls and for the mayor to gain more support in his bid to become the second party’s leader.
To be clear, it’s the majority party that’s pro-Israel, while the PASOK party (Haris Doukas, the guy in the picture’s party) is highly critical of Israel. So, this aligns with the stance of his party, in spite of the Greek government’s stance. The way you worded it makes it sound like he’s just trying to score points, but he and his party are genuinely pro-Palestine.
I do believe that PASOK’s tone would be different if they were currently the ruling party, because they’d have more to lose, and that ND, the current ruling party, would be more critical of Israel to gain points. However, this guy seems genuine enough from what I read, and by that I mean ND aligned media scolded him heavily for what he said, so he must be doing something right to piss them off.
Are the graffiti in question actually antisemitic or just critical of the Israeli genocide?
Think it matters to the Israelis? Any criticism is antisemitic by their definition.
just words “No Zionist is safe here”
an article claims this is it
How tf you gonna argue democratic values with him? They invented em
Sort of? I would argue what most think of now when they think if democracies are largely a French creation.
Fuck israel
Makes me want to start planning another vacation in Greece. Fewer Zionazis to avoid .
Look out for your democracy, Athens, because this guy has King energy.
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
Death, death to the IDF!
