Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Italy against the Jews

Special: Murky wave of anti-Israel zeal, demonization of Jews growing
at alarming rate in Italy
The first months of 2011 have confirmed Italy’s status as one of
Iran’s biggest European trade partners, all while the ayatollahs
pursue the means to perpetuate a second Holocaust. Rome is doing
business as usual with the greatest totalitarian threat to
international peace and security since the defeats of Soviet communism
and Nazi fascism, providing a lifeline to an Iranian regime that is
cruel at home, sponsors terror abroad and preaches anti-Jewish revolt.
Meanwhile, a murky wave of anti-Israel zeal is also growing at an
alarming rate in Italy. “The old anti-Jewish libels are now aimed at
the State of Israel”, says Stefano Gatti, one of the top researchers
at the Center for Documentation in Milan.
Pro-Palestinian activists are threatening to “ignite” Milan, the
financial capital of Italy where an Israeli exhibit is going displayed
in a central square. Meanwhile, the city of Turin hosted a “cultural
festival” where the image of Shimon Peres was used as a shoe-throwing
target. For one euro, Italian students had the chance to hit the face
of Israel’s president, who was fitted with a Nazi-style Jewish nose.
An Israeli student at the University of Genoa has been harassed and
threatened with death by Arab students. Muslim students shouted at him
“Allahu Akbar” (God is great) and “Itbach el Yahud” (slaughter the
Jews.) Another Israeli student at the University of Turin, Amit Peer,
confessed that “the Jews here are hiding their own identity because
they risk becoming a target.”
Meanwhile, demonization of the Jews is spreading in the liberal media.
Leftist newspaper “Il Manifesto” published a caricature of a Jewish
candidate for parliament, Fiamma Nirenstein, with Fascist insignia, a
campaign button and a Star of David. The cartoon “Electoral Monsters”
was dubbed “Fiamma Frankenstein.”
L’Unità, the official newspaper of the leftist Democratic Party,
published an interview with anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, where
she claimed that Israel is a world leader in organ trafficking. The
accusation resembled that of the Middle Ages blood libel whereby Jews
were accused of kidnapping Christian and Muslim children before
Passover in order to murder them and use their blood for matza.
Lists of boycotted Israeli products
Ucoii, the largest Islamic organization in Italy, published an ad in
many mainstream newspapers entitled “Nazi Bloodshed Yesterday, Israeli
Bloodshed Today.” An Italian court ruled that the Nazification of
Israel came under “freedom of expression” and was not a case of
incitement to hatred.
In 2009, Italy sent the largest European delegation of artists to an
Iranian cartoonist festival on the Holocaust. The cartoons presented
the Holocaust as an invention of Jews with hooked noses typical of
Nazi propaganda.
Pisa, Rome and Bologna are among the most prestigious Italian
universities that annually host anti-Zionist conferences and pro-
Intifada speakers. Israeli attaché Shai Cohen was prevented from
speaking at Pisa University after a violent attack by students, who
called out “butcher, fascist, assassin.” The Israeli ambassador, Ehud
Gol, fled Florence University after a similar “protest.”
Meanwhile, the Riccione city council sponsored a meeting against “the
militarism of Israel,” explaining that “Israeli governments don’t
represent the Jewish people.” The Coop and Conad, two of the largest
supermarket chains in Italy, for some weeks last year removed Israeli
products from their shelves in the name of a boycott of Jewish
settlements in Judea and Samaria. Lists of boycotted Israeli products
have been launched also by local Christian communities and leftist
groups, targeting L’Oreal, Ahava and other firms.
Flaica, a trade union with 8,000 members working in large-scale
retail, promoted the boycott of “all Rome shops managed by Jews” and
drew up lists of Jewish-owned shops to be avoided, because of “what is
happening in Gaza.” In Rome, a new pro-Hamas Freedom Flotilla has just
been presented in the official buildings of the Professional Order of
the Journalists, a body financed by the Italian government. Some
members of Turkish terror group IHH were also on hand.
Anti-Semitism becoming fashionable
The Foreign Press Association in Rome, a state-funded institution,
suspended two journalists, both Jews: Yedioth Ahronoth correspondent
Menachem Gantz and French journalist Ariel Dumont. Iranian journalist
Masoumi Nejad, who has been arrested for a arms trading involving
Italy and Iran, has never been expelled by the association.
Anti-Semitism is becoming fashionable also among the “chattering
classes”, intellectuals and academicians. Actress Sabina Guzzanti
attacked the “Jewish race” in a primetime television program. Literary
guru Alberto Asor Rosa wrote in a book on the transformation of the
Jews from “a persecuted race” to “a warrior persecutor race.” Renowned
leftist philosopher Gianni Vattimo declared that he had “re-evaluated”
“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and now felt they largely
reflect the truth about the Jews.
The slandering of Israel is also growing among the most important
Catholic journalists. Vittorio Messori, who conducted the first book-
length interview with Pope John Paul II, recently wrote an editorial
for the Italian daily “Il Corriere della sera” where he stated: “All
governments of all Muslim nations are under the tsunami of the violent
intrusion of Zionism that has come to put its capital in Jerusalem.”
The growing anti-Semitism is also evident by the security around the
largest synagogue in Rome, one of the oldest in the world. The Jewish
temple looks like a military outpost: Private guards everywhere, metal
detectors and policemen at every corner. The Jewish school looks like
a “sterilized area” protected by policemen, bodyguards and cameras.
All school windows are plumbed with iron grates. I saw the same in the
Jewish homes of Hebron and in the schools of Sderot.
Pro-Palestinian groups just recently marched into the ghetto, shouting
“Fascist” and “Assassins” to the Jews, some of them Holocaust
survivors. It was here, on 16 October 1943, that 1,200 Jews were
deported to Auschwitz; none of the 200 Jewish children came back home.
It was here, on 9 October 1982, that an Arab terrorist opened fire on
Jews; a two-year old baby, Stefano Taché, became the first Italian
victim of anti-Jewish violence since the war.
Not far from the ghetto, in the lower part of the Titus Gate, named
after the Roman emperor who destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem,
someone wrote in Hebrew: “Am Yisrael Chai.” The people of Israel not
only had not been destroyed, but defiantly remained alive. It's
comforting to know that there is still someone with the courage to
write it.
Giulio Meotti
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 Giulio Meotti
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