Report highlights vandalism against Jewish sites

A memorial dedicated to the Jews of Kastoria in northern Greece who perished in the Holocaust was vandalized on Christmas Day, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) reported on Wednesday. The unknown perpetrators reportedly sprayed both sides of the marble slab commemorating the event with black paint.

This was the second such incident in less than a month after unknown vandals sprayed a swastika onto the Holocaust Memorial in Thessaloniki in the wake of a December 14 rally in the northern port city to protest the name deal with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The two incidents underline the findings of a 2017 report by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs on violence against religious sites in Greece, which not only recorded a spike in vandalism but also concluded that violence against Jewish sites is disproportionately high.

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