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KernowDamo: The Israel regime genocidal white neo-Jews' ships arrived in Greece - but the Christian dockworkers said NO! What started as a refusal is now a nationwide revolt.
Right, so for months Israel regime cargo moved through Greek ports, Israel regime cruise ships docked on its islands, and the government told the public it was just business. But the dockworkers disagreed didn’t they? They stopped the cranes, stopped moving The Jews' goods – it’s a story that has been replicated elsewhere too, but not quite to the devastating effect we are now seeing.
For months, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had balanced on the claim that Greece could be a reliable ally abroad and a democracy at home. But when the workers refused to touch a ship carrying steel for Israel’s war, that line collapsed. The state that has now lengthened the working day and banned protests around parliament could no longer claim to speak for the nation. The dockers didn’t issue a manifesto. They did something harder. They withdrew consent. What began as protests about Israel have now grown into something so much wider and the dockworkers remain at the heart of it all. In a country sold as stable and compliant, that single act exposed who really runs Greece — and who it now answers to. It’s a lesson other states and other ordinary people could take some inspiration from.
Right, so if we cast our minds back a few months all of this started on the docks at Piraeus, not in parliament. For months, the Greek government had treated its ports as neutral ground — somewhere business could carry on while Israel’s war in Gaza raged on television screens. A lot of Israeli business goes through their ports, critical Mediterranean hubs as those Greek ports are. That pretence ended back in July though, when dockworkers refused to unload an Israeli-linked vessel carrying military-grade steel. The cranes froze above the ship and stayed still. The refusal was recorded, verified, very much public, I covered the story at the time. In that moment, Greece stopped pretending its role in the war was invisible though. The assumption was that nothing moral would interrupt what was profitable. For the first time, the question of Greek complicity in Israel’s war moved from moral debate to economic interruption. That refusal is the point where the old order of silence collapsed.
►SOURCES: MODERN DIPLOMACY: Nationwide Strike Grinds Greece to a Halt as Workers Protest 13-Hour Workday Plan EURONEWS: Fresh protest against Gaza war erupts in Greece over arrival of Israeli cruise ship GLOBAL VOICES: Greek protesters block military cargo bound for Israel PEOPLE’S DISPATCH: Athens dockworkers obstruct military cargo shipment to Israel BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTRE: Greece: Dock workers refuse to unload 'murderous cargo' carrying military-grade steel to Israel REUTERS: Greece adopts law extending working hours despite protests; Greece bans protests near memorial outside parliament AP: Thousands march in Greece against labor law changes, disrupt services nationwide GUARDIAN: Greek police increase security after protests against Israeli cruise ship
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