Speaker: Andrew Apostolou
Date: March 14, 2004
Anti-Semitism in Greece

Greek anti-Semitism has drawn international attention in the last two years for various reasons. Greek Jews have encountered extreme Holocaust-related anti-Semitic remarks by leading politicians, cartoons of an anti-Semitic violence rarely seen in Europe after the Holocaust, desecration of cemeteries and Holocaust monuments in various Greek cities, etc.

Andrew Apostolou is the director of research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C. He writes on Iraq, the Middle East and Central Asia and has also written on south eastern Europe. He formerly worked for The Economist Group's Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). His doctoral research at St. Antony's College, Oxford is on "Bystanders and Collaborators during the Holocaust in northern Greece" and he has published in Holocaust and Genocide studies.