«The long association with concentration camps allows us to recognize the genocide, and this is what is happening in Gaza. Even a Jew can be fascist or racist.” The words of the coordinator of the ‘Train of Memory’ association Andrea Tua relaunch the controversy on the Israeli-Palestinian issue during Turin Pride.
In the days leading up to the event the Jewish queer association Keshet announced his failure to participate in the event due to a «anti-Semitic hunt to Jewish people and Jewish symbols.” And today the Turin association ‘Train of Memory’, which organizes it every year trips to Auschwitz to remember the Holocaust, during Pride he decided to wave the Palestinian flag and fuel the clash.
«We discussed it for a year and we decided to include the Palestinian resistance in Pride».
From Keshet Ruben Piperno defines “questionable, however, the exploitation made of the trips to the extermination camps to propose an impossible comparison between the Shoah and the Israel-Hamas conflict”. Piperno speaks of «trivialization of the Shoah. On the issue, which is also trivial, that even in the little Jewish area there can be fascists and racists, let’s discuss why we create confusion between Israel (where Jews, Christians, Druze and Muslims live) and the Jewish people spread throughout the world? This term risks transforming the Jew and Jews from individuals to abstract concepts, unlike all other peoples.” Pride is over but the trail of controversy is destined to last.
