Point and counterpoint

A small, not widely noticed, detail from the end of the 2004 Olympiad:

At the proposal of its Commission for Culture and Olympic Education, the IOC has awarded the Olympiart prize to Mikis Theodorakis. This Prize was established in 1992 to recognise artists who contribute through their work to the promotion of sport, young people and peace. It was presented at the close of the 116th IOC Session in Athens.
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In his tribute, the Chairman of the Commission for Culture and Olympic Education, Zhenliang He, presented Mikis Theodorakis as a man who symbolises the spirit of the country of origin of the Olympic Games, as a man of peace who has never ceased to fight for freedom, and as a man of culture who has brought Greek music to the stage of the entire world for four decades.

That's the Mikis Theodorakis who thinks...

Jews are... at the root of evil... They hold world finance in their hands... The Jewish people control most of the big symphonic orchestras in the world... [they] now appear to control the big banks. And often the governments.

I wonder when we'll see someone who has expressed such poisonous beliefs towards some other religious, racial or ethnic group - beliefs Theodorakis shares with your average neo-Nazi thug - being lauded as a man of peace.