Minorities sided against the more nationally aggressive political camp in Greece

Evidence

In subsequent decades, Greece’s active pursuit of irredentism, involving the acquisition of vast new territories in the Balkan Wars and the First World War during the 1910s, resulted in renewed pressure on its Muslim and Jewish minorities. Members of these and other minorities tended to give their support to the less irredentist anti-Venizelist political camp based primarily in the lands of the old Greece, while the more aggressively nationalistic Venizelists, which derived their strongest support from the ethnic Greek population of the newly acquired lands, spearheaded policies aimed at restricting the autonomy and voting power of minorities. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1037

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Greek no vote rejected both Left rupture and xenophobic nationalism — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 523