According to the Australian Hellenic Educators’ Association (AHEA), the Grigor Prlichev Literary Association Inc, based in Sydney, has recently distributed to all Members of the House of Representatives and the Senate in Canberra a book entitled The Little Book of Big Greek Lies.
Written by activist Chris Stefov, based in Toronto, Canada, the book is a collection of 20 essays with headings such as ‘Big Greek Lie #6 – Greeks Are a Superior Race’ and content such as “unlike your modern Greek great-grandparents who spoke anything but Greek, our great-grandparents all spoke Macedonian”.
“Historical debate is great,” said AHEA President Dr Panayiotis Diamadis, but “deliberately vilifying people is unacceptable. As educators we felt obliged to act and to protest such malicious material being circulated at the heart of Australian democracy.”
The Australian Hellenic Educator’s Association has called for all copies of The Little Book of Big Greek Lies in Parliament House to be dispatched to the paper recycling facility.
