Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent: Marked rise in attacks on Jews in Europe over the past year
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Title:Recent Personal Experience
Name:Shimon
City: San JuanState: Puerto Rico
in a recent summer trip to greece and spain i saw many swastika-graffiti in Athens. I was volunteering at a fig farm in the island of Evvia and on my last night there the owner made a meal and once drunk started screaming that the holocaust did not happen, that jews control the US government and that jews are to blame for everything, later on i saw a huge red swastika in the city of corinth and a graffiti that said NO TO USA but the A extended to a hanged dead person whose face was a Magen David. Later on, in Spain, going to the sephardi synagogue in madrid i saw a stop sign, but instead of red it was all covered in layers over layers of broken bumperstickers and yet a fresh new one on top depicting a fat big-nosed "jew" sitting on a bunch of skinny spaniards and eating the world..and the words "Israel: Genocidal Victimists". More swastikas and a big swastika equals Star of David equals USdollars in the Ave "Fast Train" station in Sevilla...ah and of course many swastikas = jewish star