I don’t know much about him, David. I think he is Greek-English. It’s my experience, without wishing to label all Greeks, that many are raised with a pretty deep anti-Semitism wired in. From reading a few pieces on Y-net about Turkish-Israel and Greek-Israel relations in the wake of Turkey’s move towards Islam, a number of talkbackers pointed out that Israelis should be cautious about the new ‘friendship’ with Greece because of this. Well, the alliance has its own rationale and dynamics, but I would guess this is part of his story. A higher percentage of Greek Jews died in the Shoah than from any other land. While I don’t know all the reasons for this, it seems as though deep anti-Semitism is one.

Another irony of history, given that Greece was one of the lands populated by Jews fleeing the Romans in those long-ago days.