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Anti-NGO slogans response to distortion of memory - Di Segni

They express pain for what we endure daily says UCEI head

Anti-NGO slogans response to distortion of memory - Di Segni

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(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 27 - Anti-NGO graffiti projected on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day on a wall of the Cestia Pyramid and on FAO headquarters in Rome were a response to the distortion of memory and were prompted by pain, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI), Noemi Di Segni, said on Monday.
    "Those slogans were a response to distortion.
    "This is a synthesis of the messages.
    "Those who wrote them want to respond to distortion", she said.
    A banner screened in the night between Sunday and Monday on a wall of the Cestia Pyramid and of the FAO building in Rome accused NGOs including Amnesty International - misspelt as 'Amnesy' - and medical charity Emergency of hypocrisy saying that, if Israeli planes had bombed trains going to the Auschwitz concentration camp, they would have "sided with Hitler".
    The other NGOs whose logos appeared on the banner were Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the Red Cross and the Italian Partisans Association ANPI.
    Speaking on the sidelines of a commemoration ceremony at Portico D'Ottavia in the heart of Rome's Jewish ghetto, Di Segni said she believed "strong, extremely strong pain, the kind we endure every day" had prompted someone to write the graffiti.
    "It is one of the distortions of Memory to use these things on Israel, Israelis and Jews", she said. (ANSA).
   

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