Rhodes, Greece: Teen in Video Urinates on Holocaust Memorial
August 22, 2008
YouTube features a video showing a teenage boy urinating on the Holocaust memorial in Rhodes. The island's Jewish community and the website www.abravanel.wordpress.com publicized the video, which was uploaded to YouTube on August 22. According to a website called Venetoklio high 5, “A secret group of students of the Venetoklio High School of Rhodes ... does not “dig” at all the Jews who wish to turn the island into a second 'Land of Canaan.' ”
The site, which features slang and vulgar language, also says: “After all the propaganda fed even in Religion school books, about the 'chosen people' and other bull----, we have decided to take the situation into our own hands and show to everyone with deeds of how much do we really agree with this view.”
The monument was the target of vandalism already previously. In the space of three days, after its dedication on June 30, 2002, it was defaced by vandals who erased the engraved lettering, cut the barbed wire that was part of the monument and knocked it off its base.
Sources: Abravnel.wordpress.com, 08-23-2008; ejpress.org, 08-23-2008; Jta.org, 08-24-2008
