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Greek Anti-Semites: ‘Jews Caused the Collapse’(12:14)
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Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center tells Josh Hasten about one pernicious view of the culprit behind the economic crisis in Greece.
Cooper says that elements in Greece are using the classic anti-Semitic image of the “Jewish Banker” to blame the Jews for the current situation. In Israel on a Weisenthal Center tour, Cooper sees the irony in this, since he personally saw Greek Foreign Minister Nikolaos Kotzias in Jerusalem, between meetings to seek advice from Israeli officials on how to bolster the Greek economy.
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