Greece will adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism

Greece will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, its prime minister announced.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made the announcement on Friday during a meeting at his office with President of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece David Saltiel, and the head of the Greek Delegation to the IHRA, Dr. Efstathios Lianos Liantis, the Ekathimerini newspaper reported.

Mitsotakis assigned the country’s vice president, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, oversight of the project as well as coordinating and supervising the integration of the IHRA definitions into domestic legislation and education.

Liantis is a founding member of the Holocaust Museum of Greece. In April he was appointed Greece’s Special Envoy on Combatting Antisemitism and Preserving the Memory of the Holocaust.

The IHRA working definition offers a comprehensive description of antisemitism in its various forms, including hatred and discrimination against Jews, Holocaust denial  and, sometimes controversially, the way antisemitism relates to the ways criticism of Israel is expressed.

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