«Everything should be considered hate speech slogan against Israel or connected to the idea of genocide. The Minister declared this to the School, Giuseppe Valditara, while the colleague with responsibility for the University said nothing, shielding herself behind the autonomy of the universities. A mistake that opened the doors to what we never imagined. The banners of hatred, displayed in front of the professors with their eyes lowered, during the session of the Academic Senate of the University of Turin.” The professor Dario Peirone, former president of the Italy-Israel association, he is severe with the government and with his own university. «We must take inspiration from what is happening in the USA – adds the law professor -. The rectors must be summoned by the parliamentary commission and we must do something, even before the laborers who go to the streets, against the “bad teachers”, those professors who propagate anti-Semitic ideas. The same ones who book classrooms for anti-Israel rallies in our country with the excuse of holding “seminars”.
Presented on Monday evening in Turin the Sette Ottobre association, created to «defend the values of Israel, against anti-Semitism, against the boycott of universities». In the hall of the Camis De Fonseca association the risks hidden behind the protests erupted on college campuses around the world. «October 7 was a pogrom, but from the following day the narrative was reversed – he explains, Dario Drawings, leader of the Jewish community of Turin —. All the sympathy went to the Palestinians and the victims became executioners. An anti-Semitic movement disguised as anti-Zionism has risen to prominence and is conquering public opinion. It is made up of a few people capable of “hijacking” the demonstrations of April 25th.”
On Yom HaShoah, the Remembrance Day established by Tel Aviv, part of the people of Turin found themselves in defense of Israel. Among these, radicals such as Sergio Rovasio and Mario Barbaro, some university professors such as the historian Barbara Curli and the professor emeritus of the Poli Raffaello Levi, the president of the Polo del 900 Alberto Sinigaglia. And Angelo Pezzana, founder (among various things) of Fuori, who opens his arms when he thinks of the LGBT activists who support Gaza, where homosexuals risk death. Concerns related to the protests that have invaded the squares in Turin also emerged in the debate. «There is talk of ’68 again, but in reality there are four people who make a lot of noise and who forget that they were the Hamas terrorists to start a war. This is, first of all, a conflict against Western culture. Europe must also worry.”
In fact, in the many speeches, the topic of the ceasefire was almost forgotten. The issue of the many dead civilians has also been put in a corner. Too much anger and fear. Underlined by Stefano Parisi, president of the new Sette Ottobre association, manager and politician, already candidate for mayor of Milan for the centre-right, with a move also to Confindustria which does not stop his exaggerated attack also on the economic daily Il Sole 24 ore accused of acting as bass drum to Hamas.
Parisi points to the Hamas puppeteers. On the list there are Iran, Russia, China and even Qatar accused of “buying” the West with the millions spent on football or to regenerate parts of the city. «Do we protest in our universities against research with a dual use character? Let’s clarify one thing: it is Italy who loses in the event of scientific boycott. And we must not forget that it is the war discoveries that are applied in the civil sector. Not the other”. Perhaps more fitting, the story of geography teacher Daniela Santus. From Germany, where she lives, she explains the three-d rule for identifying anti-Semitism. “If you use a double standard, demonize and delegitimize yourself, you are playing into the hands of Hamas.”
