On Tuesday Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said that the Fascist racial laws targeting Italy’s Jews were an “indelible stain” on the nation’s history.”
“The racial laws of 1938 represent the lowest point in Italian history; a shame that has tainted our history forever.”
Meloni made these comments at the unveiling of a plaque at the offices of the Lazio Journalists Guild dedicated to the names and stories of Roman journalists who were victims of Nazi/Fascist repression and violence.
“I have said this many times times and I repeat it,” added the leader of the right-wing Fratelli D’Italia (FdI) party.
“It is an indelible stain, an infamy that happened amid the silence of too many”.
She stressed that the battle against discrimination and anti-Semitism has not yet been won.
“Anti-Semitism re-emerges with new faces and new and different instruments,” she said.
“The Italian government is always ready, focused and attentive to fighting every form of discrimination and anti-Semitism that risks still being present among us.”
