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<\/a>Anti-Zionist \u2018Assault Battallions\u2019 Patrol Thessaloniki Streets, Targeting Israelis and Jews<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nAilin Vilches Arguello<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Greece\u2019s Jewish community<\/strong> has denounced \u201canti-Zionist patrols\u201d which harassed and intimidated Jews and Israelis on the streets of Thessaloniki, calling the incident a disturbing echo of one of the city\u2019s most violent chapters nearly 95 years after assault squads first targeted its Jewish population. <\/span><\/p>\n Last weekend, the left-wing anarchist group Rouvikonas organized what it called \u201canti-Zionist patrols\u201d through the streets of Thessaloniki \u2013 Greece\u2019s second-largest city in the country\u2019s north \u2013 saying the demonstrations were intended to confront a growing \u201cIsraeli and Zionist infiltration\u201d across the city.<\/span><\/p>\n Joined by members of the \u201cPermanent Struggle for Class Liberation\u201d and the \u201cThessaloniki Liberation Initiative,\u201d individuals were seen marching through the city wearing black T-shirts featuring Palestinian flags.<\/span><\/p>\n According to the anti-Israel group, Thessaloniki has become part of a wider process of \u201ccolonization\u201d driven by domestic and foreign capital, alleging that Israeli and other investment funds are increasingly buying up beaches, neighbourhoods and villages and displacing local residents in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIsraelis are rushing to invest their money, bloodied by the genocide, into Airbnb and other accommodations, or into plots of land that the Greek state is selling off at bargain prices,\u201d the statement reads.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhile the people of Palestine and Lebanon are being massacred, Zionist tourists, [Israeli] soldiers and their families arrive by the thousands on cruise ships, turning their investment properties into sources of income or holiday homes far removed from the rapes and murders of civilians and children in Gaza,\u201d it continues.<\/span><\/p>\n Rouvikonas also accused Israeli investments of serving as part of the Jewish state\u2019s \u201csoft power\u201d strategy, alleging they are used to expand Israel\u2019s economic and political influence abroad while generating profits that are \u201cused to maintain Israel\u2019s expensive, international propaganda machine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n As long as the Greek government continues military and commercial cooperation with Israel, the group vowed it would continue efforts to ensure that \u201cthe genocidaires and Zionists are not welcome in our cities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The Central Jewish Council of Greece condemned the demonstrations as a chilling reminder of one of the darkest chapters in the country\u2019s Jewish history, warning that those involved evoked the \u201cassault battalions\u201d that hunted Jews through the streets of Thessaloniki nearly a century ago during the Campbell pogrom.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn both cases \u2013 then and today \u2013 hatred against Jews prevails. And today a new climate of Jew-hatred is taking shape that threatens not only Greek Jews but also the well-being of all citizens. Because history teaches that antisemitism begins its course targeting Jews but never stops with Jews,\u201d the statement reads.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe observe with sadness the tolerance shown by state authorities and social institutions towards this new wave of fanaticism that is manifested against Jewish citizens of the State of Israel,\u201d it continues.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThese \u2018assault battalions\u2019 and their followers seek to undermine the strategically important relations between Greece and Israel in a period of instability in the eastern Mediterranean that threatens the security of both countries,\u201d it further says.<\/span><\/p>\n Now, local authorities have reportedly launched a preliminary investigation into whether the actions of Rouvikonas and its supporters amounted to public incitement to violence or hatred before taking any further legal action.<\/span><\/p>\n Thessaloniki was once home to one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe, with Jews making up more than half the city\u2019s population for centuries \u2014 so much so that locals called it \u201cthe Mother of Israel.\u201d That world ended in 1943, when Nazi forces deported nearly 50,000 Thessaloniki Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau. More than 90% were murdered in the Holocaust. Today, fewer than 1,000 Jews remain in a city that once thrummed with synagogues, Sephardic culture, and Ladino-speaking street life.<\/span><\/p>\n In 1931, the Campbell pogrom erupted in Thessaloniki after false accusations that local Jews were collaborating with Bulgarians and Communists fueled antisemitic violence. Nationalist mobs attacked the city\u2019s Campbell neighborhood, home to a large Jewish community, torching dozens of homes and businesses and forcing many families to flee. <\/span><\/p>\n Although much of the neighborhood was destroyed, those responsible were ultimately acquitted, while government assistance for the devastated Jewish community remained limited.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Anti-Zionist \u2018Assault Battallions\u2019 Patrol Thessaloniki Streets, Targeting Israelis and Jews Ailin Vilches Arguello Protesters who hung a huge Palestinian flag at a building facing the Israeli embassy, lit flares during a protest over the interception of the Gaza aid flotilla, in Athens, Greece, May 21, 2026. 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Protesters who hung a huge Palestinian flag at a building facing the Israeli embassy, lit flares during a protest over the interception of the Gaza aid flotilla, in Athens, Greece, May 21, 2026. Photo: REUTERS\/Louisa Gouliamaki<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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