Regarding the negative feelings and backward thinking that many Greeks have for Jews, keep in mind that Greece is perhaps the only European country that has never come to terms with the fact that a small (yet significant) percentage of its population used to be Jewish. This historic amnesia is explained fairly well by Robert Kaplan in his book Balkan Ghosts, his chapters on Greece are well-written and poignant, as he used to live in Athens.

My point is, that as the majority (63%) of Greeks have some degree of anti-semetic feelings; it seems hardly a phenomenon of either the Left or the Right exclusively. Of course, I’ll wager that there are fewer jew-haters in Syriza than in Golden Dawn (and what a bunch of fascist loonies the latter are), but the fact is there are way more anti-Semites represented in Greek political parties than in any other European country. Sad but true.