Piantedosi cited an undercover report that found antisemitic, neoFascist and neoNazi sentiments among members of the youth wing of Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing Brothers of Italy (FDI) party.
There have also been burnings 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, who published an exposé of some members of Giovantù Nazionale (National Youth), the youth wing of Meloni’s party.
Members were recorded on a hidden camera chanting Duce and Sieg Heil, mocking a Jewish Senator and calling for Democratic Party leader Elly Schlein, who has Jewish roots, to be impaled.
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