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I have also heard second-hand unflattering comments from another Metropolitan this time of Jerusalem who said Israelis were Nazis. Obviously this was told in confidence and when repeated the person was off guard and tried to back pedal pretty fast. I guess these cases are impossible to verify but might suggest a difference between the official stance and the personal opinions of some leading church figures.
Apparently there was also a fight between Orthodox and Armenian clergy in the sanctuary of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem in which the Israeli army had to intervene to split up the different factions. This was widely reported in the Israeli press and even appeared on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryA_RPiSPRw [[User:Hobnob|Hobnob]] 15:03, June 27, 2011 (UTC)
Article in the LA Times on Anti-Semitism in Greece http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/21/world/la-fg-greece-anti-semitism-20110221
What's different in Greece is the level of tolerance for anti-Semitism.
"There is zip, zilch, zero reaction to any semblance of anti-Semitism," said human rights activist Panayotes Dimitras, "leaving the door wide-open for extremists to come in and exploit this phobic society, more so now, in this time of crisis."
Some critics fault the country's Jewish organizations for shunning quick public reaction to attacks; others point to the attitude of some church prelates and to Greece's failure to come to terms with its once-multicultural identity and harrowing past. [[User:Hobnob|Hobnob]] 15:47, June 30, 2011 (UTC)
