The Real Enemies of Israel and the Jews

Dear Director Feltri,I imagine that you have seen the Fanpage investigation that documents how in a Roman club of the youth of Fratelli d’Italia, or Gioventù Nazionale, there are individuals who praise the …

The Real Enemies of Israel and the Jews


Dear Director Feltri,
I imagine that you have seen the Fanpage investigation that documents how in a Roman club of the youth of Fratelli d’Italia, or Gioventù Nazionale, there are individuals who praise the Duce and fascism. Boys and acts from which Meloni and the party have distanced themselves, condemning certain behaviors in a clear manner. Now Liliana Segre uses very serious words in reference to the Italian government. The lady says, in essence and always in reference to the aforementioned investigation, that the Italian right is strengthened by the broad consensus received and adds that she fears being expelled from Italy again because she is Jewish.
It seems exaggerated to me, but what do you think?
Nicola Ferrari

Dear Nicola,
I have respect and esteem for Senator Liliana Segre, who must be considered the flesh-and-blood testimony of what the Nazis did in the heart of Europe while the entire world was distracted or perhaps simply, complicit and indifferent, did not want to see. Segre is our historical memory. She is our point of reference. The story of her experience moved me, including the meeting with her husband, which took place on a beach, where the sight of that mark, the one that was imprinted on prisoners in concentration camps, was inevitable, both of us wearing only a bathing suit. It was a recognition of suffering, an unspeakable pain, that could not be expressed with words and that only those who had experienced it could understand.

My almost reverential respect for the senator, however, does not prevent me, for the sake of intellectual honesty, from admitting that every now and then the lady falls into the obtuse prejudice of the left, adopting the point of view of the self-styled democrats and setting aside rationality, which should be preserved and used. The latter, for example, should lead the lady to consider that it is not the parties of the Italian right that take to the streets every week shouting violent anti-Semitic messages, it is not the parties of the Italian right that draw certain monstrous symbols on the walls or write phrases inciting hatred such as: “Death to the Jews”. Episodes of this kind have been happening for months now, they have intensified day after day, starting from October 7, when the terrorists of Hamas kidnapped, tortured, raped and killed thousands of people in an attack directed against Israel and its people. And they are so frequent in Italy as in the rest of Europe that we have returned to talking about the anti-Semitic alarm.

Hatred of Jews has reignited and is even blazing. But those who threw the match and the gasoline are not the right, but the left. So, what I would like to explain to the Honorable Segre is that, if Jews on our soil still risk being ghettoized, discriminated against, killed, offended, it is not the fault of that right that protects them, but of that left that, while proclaiming itself just and pacifist, against the language of hatred, democratic, supportive, continues to defend Nazi regimes and anti-Semitic parties, such as Hamas, whose objective, by statute, is the annihilation of Jews. Liliana Segre knows history, but appears short-sighted when it comes to looking the present in the face.

The parties that lead the country have never been the authors of ambiguous conduct aimed at marginalizing Jews, nor have they ever been accomplices of those who have spat out hatred against Jews in the squares and streets. On the contrary, they have distanced themselves, condemning certain episodes and warning society as a whole of the risk of an anti-Semitic resurgence. The parties of the center-right are the defenders of Liliana Segre, who however does not realize this, perhaps feeling more protected by those who, waving rainbow flags, sing anti-Semitic chants between one Bella ciao and another. They are the ones who are shameless and not the Italian government, I would like to say to Segre. Liliana should fear the possible advance of the anti-Semitic Italian left and not an executive led by Fratelli d’Italia.

As for the Fanpage investigation, I think like Meloni: in the party there is not and there will never be room for individuals who do not respect the values ​​of democracy and freedom. Those young people are nothing but imbeciles, ignorant of history, victims of their weakness and stupidity. They have sought cohesion among themselves in attitudes, words and gestures that, although joking, are serious and intolerable, especially when one wants to grow in the political field.

Yet to maintain that this group of idiot kids could represent the Brothers of Italy party and its founding values ​​or that they could constitute a danger to the well-being of Italian Jews, well, this seems to me even more foolish as well as absolutely specious.