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June 13, 2014
This looks like a job for the Foxman.
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is willing to work with Jewish groups to find ways to combat the anti-Semitism raging in his country, including investigating the past record of a new ultranationalist cabinet minister who is said to espouse strong anti-Jewish views, according to Abraham Foxman, the director of the Anti-Defamation League.
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and never miss our top stories Free Sign up!Foxman met with Samaras in Athens on Tuesday, a day after Makis Voridis, a longtime member of ultranationalist parties, was appointed health minister as part of a cabinet reshuffle.
“We expressed regret and concern, and said it undermines the standard that he set,” Foxman said, referring to praise Samaras had received from international Jewish groups for forcefully opposing the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. “He demurred and he said he doesn’t think [Voridis] is an anti-Semite, but that he will examine it. He said that it’s important sometimes to kick people out and sometimes to try to change them. It’s the beginning of a dialogue.”
Voridis, 49, considered a friend of French convicted racist and Holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen, said in a 2008 interview that he doesn’t know whether the diary of Anne Frank or the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were accurate documents. He had risen to prominence as the head of a group of students at Athens University that, fellow students recount, painted swastikas on the walls and greeted one another with “Heil Hitler.”
His appointment as health minister was met with disappointment by members of the Greek Jewish community. “No Jewish person can be happy about the appointment of a man who was, until two years ago, a head of the extreme right-wing and anti-Semitic LAOS party,” said Victor Eliezer, the secretary general of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece.
