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American Jewish Aid Workers Expelled from UN Refugee Camp in Greece

(Israel Today) Yossi Aloni - A group of American Jewish women were unceremoniously expelled from a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos last week after they had traveled from the U.S. to volunteer with IsraAID. When fellow volunteers working with other aid groups began to hurl anti-Semitic and anti-Israel slurs at the Jewish women, a security guard arrived and joined in the verbal assault, demanding that the women leave the camp. "The guard...yelled at me and said there was no place here for people like me," said one of the women. "I asked, 'You mean Israeli? But I'm an American Jew.' The guard replied by insisting that we [Jews] are all the same - murderers. He then threatened to arrest us if we didn't leave the camp." Coming to the aid of the women was an Israeli Arab member of IsraAID who notified the camp administration of the incident, leading to the guard's dismissal.
2015-12-29 00:00:00
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