Dora Bakoyannis visited Israel and the Palestinian territories from 11-13.11.25, as a Council of Europe envoy, for the preparation of the Middle East Exhibition, where she had meetings with top officials, describing her visit to the Nova Festival venue, on 11.11.2025, as "one of those that were forever etched in her memory."
At the same time, during her journey, she visited the places most affected by the terrorist attacks of October 7, while she monitored the entire humanitarian aid route to the Palestinians in Gaza. Dora Bakoyannis' post on the Greek National News Agency and a relevant video from her visit to the Nova Festival HERE:
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What is the relationship between Beethoven and Tchaikovsky and the war in Gaza? You will tell me none. I will answer you wrong. It is enough who listens to them and who performs their work. Because if their notes fall into hands stained with the blood of Palestinians, then they themselves become propagandists of "genocide." This is what a group of peace "activists" and apparently lovers of the music of the two classics thought. And they decided to save their work from the contaminated hands of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, trying to interrupt the concert the other day in Paris.
The President of the European Olympic Committees and member of the International Olympic Committee Spyros Kapralos condemned Indonesia's refusal to grant visas to Israeli athletes for the World Gymnastics Championships, calling it a "blatant act of discrimination."
The European Jewish Congress (EJC) commemorated the second anniversary of the brutal Hamas massacre by co-organizing, together with MEP Alice Teodorescu and Bene Berit International, the conference “October 7: Two Years Later – Recording the Testimony – Rebuilding Hope”, which took place on 16.10.25, at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels.
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With overwhelming emotion and satisfaction, we are witnessing the release and return of the hostages to Israel and into the arms of their families — a development achieved through the decisive contribution of U.S. President Donald Trump — after two nightmarish years of captivity in the underground tunnels of Gaza, in the hands of the ruthless Hamas terrorists who abducted them during the attack of October 7, 2023.