Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Anti-Israel Rioters Attack Israeli Cruise Ship, Prevent Tourists From Disembarking in Greece
https://www.algemeiner.com ^ | Aug 29, 2025

Posted on 08/30/2025 5:47:32 AM PDT by 11th_VA

Anti-Israel rioters on the Greek island of Crete have attacked an Israeli cruise ship, preventing tourists from disembarking in the latest incident targeting Israeli visitors in Greece.

The MS Crown Iris — operated by Israeli cruise line Mano Maritime — was targeted once again by pro-Palestinian activists this week.

On Thursday, Israeli tourists were physically assaulted and temporarily blocked from disembarking in Crete by about 25 protesters gathered at the island’s main port to demonstrate against the war in Gaza.

The rioters, waving Palestinian flags and holding banners falsely accusing Israel of genocide, clashed violently with police who were trying to secure a safe passage for the Israeli tourists.

As Israeli tourists tried to disembark, they were attacked by the demonstrators, who threw rocks and metal bars, forcing many to retreat back onto the ship.

After those who first tried to leave the ship were physically assaulted, police advised everyone to return onboard, as protesters appeared to be blocking all exits from the port.

The port then closed its gates, and all passengers returned to the ship while authorities worked to regain control of the situation.

Greek riot police intervened, using pepper spray to disperse the crowd and detaining four protesters, but some passengers were still injured during the incident.

This latest attack marks the third incident in a month in which anti-Israel protesters have targeted Israeli tourists and attempted to boycott the Mano Maritime cruise line.

Greece’s Minister of Citizen Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis, condemned these targeted attacks, vowing that anyone who tries to prevent a foreign national from legally entering the country will “face prosecution, arrest, and then criminal proceedings under the anti-racism law.”

Las month, approximately 1,600 Israeli passengers expecting a peaceful stop on their cruise were unable to disembark from a ship docked on the island of Syros after a pro-Palestinian protest erupted at the port, raising safety concerns.

Around 300 demonstrators had gathered at the dock to protest against the war in Gaza, while Syros Port Authority police guarded the area and intervened to prevent violence until the ship departed.

Amid the large anti-Israel protest, the cruise company chose to divert the ship to Limassol, Cyprus.

In videos circulating on social media, protesters were seen waving Palestinian flags and holding banners with slogans such as “Stop the Genocide” and “No AC [Air Conditioning] in Hell,” while chanting antisemitic slogans.

In a similar incident, pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with Greek riot police on the island of Rhodes as they attempted to block a Mano Maritime cruise ship from docking at the island’s main port.

More than 600 passengers were set to disembark when tensions escalated and brief clashes broke out as authorities worked to control the protest.

According to videos circulating on social media, riot police can be seen confronting a group of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered near the dock, who shouted slogans such as “Freedom for Palestine.”

Since the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, antisemitic incidents have surged to alarming levels across Europe.

These incidents appear to be the latest in an increasing wave of anti-Jewish hate crimes that Greece and other countries have experienced in recent months.

On Friday, a group of Israeli tourists from London were thrown out of a Greek taverna and called “baby killers” after a dispute with the pro-Palestinian restaurant owner.

Last month in Athens, a group of pro-Palestinian activists vandalized an Israeli restaurant, shouting antisemitic slurs and spray-painting graffiti with slogans such as “No Zionist is safe here.”

The attackers also posted a sign on one of the restaurant’s windows that read, “All IDF soldiers are war criminals — we don’t want you here,” referring to the Israel Defense Forces.

In June, an Israeli tourist was attacked by a group of anti-Israel activists after they overheard him using Google Maps in Hebrew while navigating through Athens.

When the attackers realized the victim was speaking Hebrew, they began physically assaulting him while shouting antisemitic slurs…


TOPICS:
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-24 next last
The 1930’s are back …
1 posted on 08/30/2025 5:47:32 AM PDT by 11th_VA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: 11th_VA

Daily roving world-wide Islamist leftist Kristallbacht.

Arm up, Jews!


2 posted on 08/30/2025 5:57:51 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The U.S spends 13 times (+1,200%) as much per year on Ukraine than it ever has on Israel.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 11th_VA

Oh I’m sure the Anti-Semite Freepers will be all over this story like flies on a cowflop, admonishing us all for “falling for the hasbara of the Jewish-run media” blah blah blah...


3 posted on 08/30/2025 5:57:55 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Uncle Miltie

Kristanacht. Derned phone keyboard and fat thumbs.


4 posted on 08/30/2025 6:06:08 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The U.S spends 13 times (+1,200%) as much per year on Ukraine than it ever has on Israel.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Kriggerel

There is certainly a Minyan of Anti-Semites here.

;-)


5 posted on 08/30/2025 6:07:52 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The U.S spends 13 times (+1,200%) as much per year on Ukraine than it ever has on Israel.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: All

300 demonstrators gathered at the dock to protest Israeli “genocide”
in Gaza .........1,600 Israeli passengers were unable to disembark


Genocide - Wikipedia
Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their
membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people.

Definition: Genocide is the intent to destroy a specific national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, in whole or in part, through acts such as killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, or preventing reproduction. Coined by Raphael Lemkin, the concept was later codified in the Genocide Convention, which serves as the legal basis for defining and prosecuting the crime of genocide.

Key Aspects of Genocide
Targeting a Group:
Genocide specifically targets members of a protected group, rather than individuals, and is motivated by their membership in that group.

Intent to Destroy:
The defining feature of genocide is the intent to destroy the group, even if the destruction is not immediate or complete.

Specific Acts:
Under the Genocide Convention, prohibited acts include: Killing members of the group. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.

Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Historical Context
The term “genocide” was coined by Raphael Lemkin to describe the systematic destruction of groups, drawing on events like the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust.

The international legal definition, while largely based on Lemkin’s ideas, was influenced by powerful countries that sought to limit its scope, particularly excluding political groups and cultural destruction from the Convention’s initial draft.

Distinction from Other Crimes
Genocide is often considered the most severe crime, even worse than other atrocities that result in similar numbers of civilian deaths. Unlike other crimes, the intent to destroy a group as a whole is the central element of genocide.

See: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Genocide Convention - Wikipedia
Definition of genocide * The convention was passed to outlaw actions similar to the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust.


6 posted on 08/30/2025 6:10:42 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 11th_VA

Were the “pro palestinian activists” also waving Nazi flags and screaming Sieg Heil?


7 posted on 08/30/2025 6:40:53 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 11th_VA

Not quite the same thing but history does repeat itself and these animals are still active. How long before these maniacs pull this:

“”The Achille Lauro hijacking took place on 7 October 1985, when the Italian ocean liner MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by four men representing the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF) off the coast of Egypt, as she was sailing from Alexandria to Ashdod, Israel. A 69-year-old Jewish-American man in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, was murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard. The hijacking sparked the “Sigonella Crisis”.””


8 posted on 08/30/2025 6:42:18 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Liz

Was the Allies killing of 12% of Germans in the war they started a “genocide”?


9 posted on 08/30/2025 6:59:34 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The U.S spends 13 times (+1,200%) as much per year on Ukraine than it ever has on Israel.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Kriggerel; Liz

Look! There’s one now!

(Liz, #6)


10 posted on 08/30/2025 7:01:20 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The U.S spends 13 times (+1,200%) as much per year on Ukraine than it ever has on Israel.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: All
We're learning that the word "anti-semitism" is a tactic to get the user to "cower in fear" before wimpy Jews with no self-esteem

Let's be clear: nobody is advocating the awful brutality of the anti-semitism of the 40's.

Today, an informative comment being called anti-semitism is patently ridiculous.

11 posted on 08/30/2025 7:13:49 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Just in case anyone wondered why the EU insisted for years on unfettered immigration by koranimals, and even helped start a civil war in Libya to really juice the arrival of rape-you-gees.

12 posted on 08/30/2025 7:48:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: 11th_VA

Seems to me that when a ship docks in port, the passengers spend a lot of money there.

Boycott...


13 posted on 08/30/2025 8:00:07 AM PDT by Paisan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Midwesterner53

Maybe in addition to the mandatory lifeboat drill you undergo when starting a cruise, they should also include a “repel boarders” drill....


14 posted on 08/30/2025 8:34:09 AM PDT by Crapgame (What should be taught in our schools? American Exceptionalism, not cultural Marxism...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Liz
Let's be clear: nobody is advocating the awful brutality of the anti-semitism of the 40's.

Lets be clear: Hammas is. And so are the other members of the MB network.

15 posted on 08/30/2025 8:37:39 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Uncle Miltie

We all get old and have fingers like ball park franks.


16 posted on 08/30/2025 9:18:25 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Thank You Rush
You started it again.   Thinking of Leon Klinghoffer fills me with angst.   The Palestinians and their sycophants should be the ones that no longer exist.
17 posted on 08/30/2025 9:31:35 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Hammas is advocating brutality. And so are the other members of the MB network.


Let’s be clear: NOT my country; NOT my problem. Fight your own battles.


18 posted on 08/30/2025 9:46:14 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: 11th_VA

Greeks. Effing Greeks....


19 posted on 08/30/2025 9:51:34 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 11th_VA

Al Hijrah immigration has brought millions of Jew hating Muslims to Europe. I saw some of them in Crete last year. Europe is submitting without a fight. Sodomite Christians in the US support the Muslims and hate Israel too.


20 posted on 08/30/2025 11:35:57 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-24 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson