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YouTube removes clip showing Rhodes youth urinating on Holocaust memorial
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Jewish World, anti-Semitism 

YouTube on Tuesday removed video clip posted by a group of Rhodes high school students showing a teenager urinating on a memorial to Holocaust victims on the Greek island.

The clip showed the memorial, a black pillar which commemorates the murders of 1,604 Jews killed by the Nazis in Rhodes during World War II. The video then showed a youth - his face obscured by an Israeli flag covered by the international "no" symbol of a red circle with a slash through it - urinating on the pillar.

"We are a secret group of students of the 'Venetoklio' High School of Rhodes, that does not digg [sic] at all the Jews who wish to turn the island [of Rhodes] into a second 'Land of Canaan.'" says an accompanying "manifesto."
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"After all the propaganda fed even in Religion school books, over the 'chosen people' and other bullshit, we have decided to take the situation into our own hands and show to everyone with deeds of how much do we really agree with this view."

The clip also included rock music with lyrics threatening Rhodes Jews, praising Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and the Auschwitz death camp, and a refrain using the German term "Juden raus!" [Jews, get out!]

According to the Israeli nrg news Website, the memorial was built in 2002 near a synagogue in a section of Rhodes once known as "Little Jerusalem."

Although the Rhodes Jewish community once numbered some 6,000 people before the war, the Holocaust and ensuing emigration left only a tiny Jewish population, estimated to be as small as 40 resident Jews at present.



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  1.   here`s the youtube.com clip 13:54  |  poster 26/08/08
  2.   Lovely Greeks 14:12  |  Michael 26/08/08
  3.   Greece is one of the most anti-Semitic countries in Europe.. 14:32  |  Markus 26/08/08
  4.   Terrible & Scary 14:54  |  Steven 26/08/08
  5.   Let`s not be hasty 14:58  |  Michael 26/08/08
  6.   VOTED Most racist country in Europe.Criticised for least help for 15:27  |  PETER SM 26/08/08
  7.   Reminder to Avraham Burg and Akiva Eldar their 15:44  |  Absolute Sweden 26/08/08
  8.   Haaretz is doing a very important job reporting this event 16:05  |  Ron 26/08/08
  9.   Greek anti-Semitism 16:08  |  Markus 26/08/08
  10.   rhodes desecration 16:08  |  h.franco 26/08/08
  11.   disgusting 16:52  |  anon 26/08/08
  12.   Here in Germany we shit on Greeks... 16:59  |  Paul Henzen 26/08/08
  13.   # Absolutely Correct 17:10  |  David 26/08/08
  14.   I`m a jew from Rhodes 17:13  |  Frank David 26/08/08
  15.   Showing off 17:17  |  Edithann, USA 26/08/08
  16.   Are they the students of the Rhode`s school 17:33  |  N 26/08/08
  17.   "It is all Greek to me!" 18:19  |  Cicero the wise 26/08/08
  18.   The Jews of Rhodes 18:24  |  David Israel 26/08/08
  19.   rhodes to david israel 19:13  |  h franco 26/08/08
  20.   h Franco 19:47  |  David Israel 26/08/08
  21.   Rhodes grotesque ? forgot it recent history 20:16  |  H.H.M. 26/08/08
  22.   to 3. You said all, I´m sad to know about antisemtism on Greece 20:54  |  JP 26/08/08
  23.   Edithanns lovely link 21:56  |  zengeos 26/08/08
  24.   Now everyone will say greeks are racist, I thought French, German 00:22  |  EL MOOK 27/08/08
  25.   It`s Learned at Home 00:37  |  guy 27/08/08
  26.   I am a Jew BORN in SALONICKA GREECE 00:41  |  Fortune 27/08/08
  27.   There`s a modest Jewish Museum on Rhodes... 00:54  |  Esther 27/08/08
  28.   #PeterSM. Greek High school kids... 02:29  |  Maureen Ann 27/08/08
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