After a month living under Iranian missile threats, we took our kids and left Israel for a short break. We landed late at night in Athens (Greece) but the next morning, after just a 10-minute walk around the city, we went straight back to the hotel and booked the earliest flight out to our next destination.
I won’t stay in a place where antisemitism is so open and pervasive. Every corner was covered in shameful graffiti, hateful slogans, and antisemitic imagery.
Athens, take a good look at yourself. The city is dirty, chaotic, and disgraceful.
You’re disrespecting one of the greatest legacies in human history; the birthplace of philosophy, literature, and democracy.
Today it feels like a lawless, anarchic place. You don’t deserve our time or attention. Fix your problems first. Then we can talk.
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Zen Zhang Ze Qing
If one person dislikes you, it's their problem. If everyone dislikes you, you are the problem.
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Stephen Rodgers replied
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Ann Diamond
Keep on running til you solve the puzzle
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Howard Goodman replied
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Landé Van Wyk Willemse
It's not antisemitism, it's anti-genocide. BIG difference
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Montader Al replied
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Paul Dux
I was thrown out of 109 different bars. Was it me, or all of the bars?
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Dimitri Apostolos replied
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Salwa Mostafa Shehata
Good to get out of your bubble and to know how others see you . You will find that sentiment all around the globe and it's not them it's you
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Ken Salkover replied
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Dez Luap
Have you ever asked yourself why this might be?
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Pamela Jones replied
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Jake Holland
Hey, so graffiti works then 
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Nasihah Syahirah replied
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Pat Hallahan
Well, don't expect to have many more passport stamps 
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Zahoor Mhd
You will find this truth and reality in the whole world. All people are not wrong except those who have called so far chosen people to themselves....
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Sylvie Benatar replied
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بهادر بلال
Maybe Madagascar doesn’t sound too bad after all
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Runic Writings replied
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Josh Bieuz-Yasyszczuk
Buddy saw an anti fascism slogan and felt personally attacked LOL
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Barry Holt replied
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Faruq Ahmed
We are just watching Karma do it’s job… 
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Tommy DeWitt
Very simple to not go where you’re not welcome.
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Ayel Kay
How nice it is that you get to just pack up and leave.
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Greg Schlotthauer replied
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Christine Palmer
Left for a break or fleeing scared
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Oggy Kimmy
Its not a short break, you just running...
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Nasihah Syahirah replied
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Patrick Cohn
Well done there's no place like our home
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Raymond Lynch replied
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Julia Harte
Me when I’m not being coddled anymore
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Anturangga Tantra
So.... The moment their "country" got attacked, they run with their tail between their legs huh? So all the way back, the moustache man actually knew what he was doing, helping these people to safety by putting them in a special camp.
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Donna Moralee replied
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Kamrul Hasan
Left the promised land, but why? We know what short break means.
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Marcel Suszyński replied
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Abidullah Abid
It means that the 
are rejected from both modern and ancient philosophers 
are rejected from both modern and ancient philosophers 245
Al Waleed Bin Sultan replied
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Safya Hanif
You might be plane hopping from Country to Country for a while
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Shukri Yussuf replied
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ハフィズ ノル
That metal box has its right to defend itself 
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Sam Phet replied
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Saahkem Endurance
U should have stayed, why the running, has the chosen turn to the running?
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Fir Onlyz replied
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Hadas Kuznits
Disgusting.
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Gerardo Martinez replied
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Troy Crawford
You reap what you sow, stay there 
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Troy Crawford replied
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Matt Waine
Imagine having a problem with a slogan saying "smash fascism"
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Luke Faulkner
Sorry bro, Athens definitely wasn’t promised to you 3000 years ago
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Mary BD Leo replied
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Ashley Scudder
If the shoe fits
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