Antisemitism is resurgent in Italy
"across the board", Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said
Wednesday citing an undercover report that found antisemitic,
neoFascist and neoNazi sentiments among members of the youth
wing of Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy
(FDI) party but also the burning of Israeli flags and the
deplatforming of Jewish journalists by leftist pro-Palestinian
youths, among other things.
"The shameful ostentation of gestures and symbols of
totalitarianism that history has condemned, by exponents of the
FdI youth movement as well as the repeated burning of Israeli
flags during street demonstrations, the attacks on the Jewish
brigades on 25 April, the circumstances in which journalists of
Jewish origin were prevented from speaking at public events, are
just some of the episodes that denote a transversal and
unacceptable resurgence of anti-Semitism that must be fought on
every front", he told question time in the House.
Piantedosi was answering a question on investigative journalism
website Fanpage's exposé of some mebres of Giovantù Nazionale,
National Youth (GN), the youth wing of Meloni's party, who were
caught on a hidden camera chanting Duce and Sieg Heil, mocking a
Jewish Senator, and calling for centre-left opposition
Democratic Party (PD) leader Elly Schlein, who has Jewish roots,
to be impaled.
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