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The perpetrators taped a poster to one of the restaurant’s windows reading: “All IDF soldiers are war criminals – we don’t want you here.”
Another piece of graffiti showed a drawing of a woman wearing a keffir over the slogan “smash Zionism fascism”.
Police from the Athens hate crime division arrived around 15 minutes later, but reportedly said arrests would only be made if any of the vandals could be identified by CCTV footage.
Zvika Levinson, the restaurant’s owner, who lives in Israel, told Israel Hayom that none of the employees present were Israeli.
Following the attack, the local Israeli community visited the restaurant as a show of solidarity, with some sing “Am Yisrael Chai”.
Thousands of Israelis pass daily through the neighborhood in central Athens where the restaurant is located, about 200 yards north of the Acropolis.
Levinson urged authorities in Athens to “intervene” and punish the perpetrators. “It would be a shame for the Israelis to leave Athens,” he said. “But if authorities don’t act, the situation will not be good.”
