The decision of teachers' union ELME Corfu to organize a demonstration this afternoon, June 9, 2025, for Palestine has caused reactions. Most teachers' unions are governed by left-leaning boards and take up the baton of leftist causes, which in Greece have spun out of the political arena into issues that are emotionally sensitive and populist, but have no social or political bearing on their profession, remuneration, work rights, or even Greek social reality. One such issue has to do with a conflict in another country: the issue of the war in Gaza. This again raises questions of rampant anti-semitism in the ranks of the Greek Left.

In Crete in 1941 there was no turning back as if you were entering the war against the Nazi occupiers. However, the airborne landing of the Germans during World War II under the code name "Unternehmen Merkur" (Operation Mercury) against the island did not frighten the Cretans, who put up an unexpectedly strong resistance against the numerically superior Germans.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has crossed the line once again but this time he surpassed himself with a provocative statement during the AKP’s Parliamentary Group meeting.