The Greek government has condemned comments from a senior Orthodox priest.
The anti-Semitic statements were made during a television interview of the Metropolite of Piraeus.
The comments were immediately condemned by the government which said it had an obligation to condemn the language of hatred.
Greek government spokesman George Petalotis said in a statement: “It is the government’s duty to stigmatize as unacceptable the language that denies the Holocaust, the biggest crime against humanity. These views are pushed to the margins. They insult Greece. They insult our culture. They insult our very society of which the Greek Jewish Community is an inseparable part. Every one should know that the Greek polity and our society condemn them unequivocally.”
On Mega TV, Greece’s largest television network, Metropolite Seraphim (photo) suggested the existence of a Zionist conspiracy to enslave Greece and Christian Orthodoxy.
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