{"id":5602,"date":"2013-02-26T14:47:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T20:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2013-02-26T14:47:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T20:47:26","slug":"entertainers-poster-with-swastika-star-of-david-draws-ire-of-greek-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/entertainers-poster-with-swastika-star-of-david-draws-ire-of-greek-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainer&#8217;s poster with swastika-Star of David draws ire of Greek Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Greece (JTA) &#8212; Greek Jews want posters featuring a symbol of an intertwined swastika and Star of David to promote a nightclub entertainer&#8217;s shows to be taken down.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece has complained to authorities in Athens about the posters advertising a series of shows by singer and comedian Tsimis Panousis at a club in the port city of Piraeus, near Athens. The posters have been plastered across Athens and on major boulevards in the city.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5603\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/swastika_mogen_david.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5603\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5603 lazyload\" title=\"swastika_mogen_david\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/swastika_mogen_david-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/swastika_mogen_david-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/swastika_mogen_david-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/swastika_mogen_david.jpg 1224w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5603\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5603 \" title=\"swastika_mogen_david\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/swastika_mogen_david-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/swastika_mogen_david-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/swastika_mogen_david-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/swastika_mogen_david.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greek Jews are calling for the removal of this nightclub promotional poster featuring an intertwined swastika and Star of David displaying in Piraeus, Greece. (Gavin Rabinowitz)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Jewish board in a statement said it had received positive responses to officials in its appeal to have the posters removed. However, the posters remained up in many places in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe design depicted on the poster fiercely insults our very religion as well as the memory of the six million Jews, victims of the Holocaust,\u201d said the board&#8217;s statement, which was addressed to the Greek justice minister and officials in the Education Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Observers say that Panousis, who has a reputation for being provocative, apparently was trying to imply that Greece\u2019s financial crisis was a result of the combined efforts of a German-led austerity plan and Jewish-controlled financial interests.<\/p>\n<p>Greece has seen an upsurge recently in anti-Semitic incidents, but most have been tied to the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Entertainer%27s%20poster%20with%20swastika-Star%20of%20David%20draws%20ire%20of%20Greek%20Jews\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1068,8790,8795,2083,8788,2084],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5605,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions\/5605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}