A couple of Israeli tourists go to lunch at a restaurant that adheres to the "campaign against Israeli apartheid and Palestinian genocide", and displays its poster. After eating, the two begin to talk about their land with the people at the table next to them, a collective conversation begins and the owner of the restaurant begins to defend the reasons for her support for the people of Gaza.
But the confrontation degenerates into a fight: the tourist films the restaurateur Nives Monda with her cell phone while, off-camera, she loudly accuses her of hating Jews and supporting terrorism. Monda denies it, tries to argue but then concludes, in English, "You can go ahead, I don't want your money. " "You can go, I don't want your money." The video is immediately published on social media by the Israeli tourist, Gilli Moses, who comments: "Shameful, we have seen first-hand what anti-Semitism is. We would never have imagined it could happen in Naples, a wonderful city where freedom and love are in the air. We will evaluate whether to follow up on our complaint with a formal complaint."
The post is taken up and relaunched by Italian and non-Italian users, collecting hundreds of shares and very harsh comments against the restaurant and its staff. However, the replica of the Taverna di Santa Chiara, a small restaurant in the heart of the old town of Naples, also goes viral, receiving just as many expressions of solidarity: «We were victims of an episode with the aim of intimidation» and then of «a campaign of hatred and threats», denounces Nives Monda.
The tourist, she stressed, "started filming us and our workers, as well as other customers, including minors, and then spread the video online (a crime), defaming us as supporters of terrorism and anti-Semites (another crime)."
All this "unleashing a hate campaign that since yesterday has resulted in anonymous messages with threats of punitive expeditions, destruction of the premises, physical violence": hence the announcement of a formal complaint, also against "those who accuse us of having kicked anyone out of the premises, falsely as the video itself demonstrates".
(Online Union)
