MILAN (AP) – Italian Jewish leaders protested Tuesday over quotes from Holocaust survivor Primo Levi on a flyer for a pro-Palestinian demonstration planned for Saturday in the Italian capital. International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“Primo Levi must remain in our memories,” said Noemi Di Segni, president of the Federation of Italian Jewish Communities, news agency ANSA reported. “Please have the dignity to express your thoughts without tarnishing the memory of survivors and find other quotes.”
Posters for pro-Palestinian demonstrations include references to Levy’s words about the need to remember “because what happened may happen again,” implicitly referring to what Levy wrote. He is referring to Gaza, not the Holocaust.
The incident exemplifies concerns expressed by Di Seni at a press conference earlier in the day that Holocaust memory is being “used out of context and directed against Israel and the Jewish people.” Ta. She said, “We have heard distorted words from pastors, teachers, politicians, and institutional figures.”
Considering the growing anti-Semitic sentiment in the surrounding area; israel-hamas warPrime Minister di Segni acknowledged there would be a temptation for Italy’s Jewish community to celebrate Memorial Day in private, but said hundreds of events would go ahead as planned off-duty. He said he was deaf.
“Rather than celebrating a memory that calls for weeping for the Jews, for the Jews, with the Jews, or with the survivors, we celebrate Italy and fascism for what happened to them. It’s about recognizing responsibility,” she said. She spoke at a press conference at the Chigi Palace alongside Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Undersecretary of State Alfredo Mantovano.
Plans to hold traditional marathon foot races in several Italian cities to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday have been scrapped, despite assurances from the Italian government to provide maximum safety.
“Of course security was organized, but it seems unthinkable to be running through the streets of Italy this year,” she said, adding that “those with their arms raised in a fascist salute…almost by constitutional freedom “They’re protected,” he pointed out sarcastically. ”
she quoted Fascists salute at recent far-right rally in Romeas well as last week’s High Court ruling that fascist salutes are not a crime unless they pose a risk of provoking violence or are aimed at reviving a fascist party.
As another example, Italian media reported that a partisan association in a Tuscan town has launched a campaign to protest against “genocide against Palestinians” in the run-up to Saturday’s Remembrance Day with a “Never Again” slogan reminiscent of the lessons of the Holocaust. It was reported that they were planning a demonstration using the phrase “. The people were protected by the state of Israel. ”