While the United Kingdom has seen a rise in xenophobia, Islamophobia and racism amongst political adherents to the so-called “English Defense League” (EDL), other nations like France have targeted the Roma people (formerly referred to by non-Roma as “Gypsies”), even ethnically cleansing tens of thousands of Roma people in 2010. Famously oppressed along with Jews and various enemies of the Nazi Third Reich, the continued oppression of the Roma people has not fallen out of vogue with France, nor garnered the same public outrage and shaming as with other groups. But France is hardly alone. Nations like Greece have been experiencing their own resurgence of fascism and racial xenophobia. Greece’s Neo-Nazi “Golden Dawn” party has recently received soaring numbers of supporters. A viral video, which swept Greece, documented about 40 husky men, led by Giorgos Germenis, a right-wing Golden Dawn party law-maker. Germenis and company were filmed “marching through a night market in the town of Rafina demanding that dark-skinned merchants show permits,” according to the New York Post.
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 20:54:15 +0000
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