The youths shouted antisemitic slogans and injured a dozen Israeli supporters in an incident that Jewish leaders have likened to a pogrom.
The president of the Palestinian Association of Italy, Mohammad Hannoun, told ANSA he received an expulsion order from Milan Friday.
“[The expulsion was] for incitement to hatred and violence in reference to the [pro-Palestinian] march [in Milan] last Saturday, because I complimented the young people of Amsterdam.”
Hannoun, founder of the charitable association of solidarity with the Palestinian people, was included in the blacklist of the US Department of the Treasury last October.
He was included on charges of being a financier of terrorism and of promoting demonstrations against Israel.
At last Saturday’s march in the Lombardy capital, the 57th in Milan since the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, Hannoun, who lives in Genoa, spoke with ANSA.
“I said that they did well to beat up Israeli fans because they were shouting ‘death to Arabs and Muslims’,” he said.
“[The were] praising the criminal Israeli army and the crimes against Gazans, they also beat up Arab citizens of Amsterdam and tore Palestinian flags from private homes.
“They were asking for it.”
ANSA
