After the controversy over Raffaele La Regina, Sardinian dem forced to renounce the candidacy for an old post in which he questioned the legitimacy of the State of Israel, Pd is again under attack.
This time the target is Michele Piras , candidate for the Chamber in the single-member constituency of Nuoro-Oristano. He is attacked by the senator of the Brothers of Italy Lucio Malan . In an interview unearthed on Youtube, Malan affirms, Piras said that "millennia of existence of the Jewish community in Europe have produced a very important contamination, precisely of negative values such as those of racism, white supremacy and an oppressive way of imposing its values ".
In the same interview, continues Malan, “ Piras claims to dialogue with Al Fatah and with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine , officially considered a terrorist organization by the EU, the US and Canada”. "How is it possible - Malan finally asks - that among the Democratic Party candidates there are so many cases of radical hostility to Israel?".
Piras' reply is ready: “ I am not anti-Semitic , my historical closeness to the Palestinian people cannot be used for a campaign of distortion that attributes to me words never spoken. The existence of Israel is not in question, I believe in dialogue as the only tool to settle the conflict ”.
The Sardinian candidate, already a deputy from 2013 to 2018, recalls that in 2013 during his mission in Palestine he went to visit the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) . "There is no way in the world - he thunders - that my criticisms directed at those who blow the fire of the conflict are used to demonstrate my alleged anti-Jewish attitude".
And “if Lucio Malan goes on - he concludes - I will study with whoever is responsible the way to assert my reasons in court”.
(Unioneonline / L)