"War criminals are not welcome in Sardinia and may be prosecuted." Written in two languages: Hebrew and English, these are the messages that appeared on several posters placed above tourist billboards in Chia, in the municipality of Domus De Maria. Accompanying them, in addition to a drawing of a typical Sardinian artistic handicraft, are two hashtags: "freepalestine" and "stopgenocide."
The recipients are the Israelis: their government, with its armed forces, is carrying out a massacre in the Gaza Strip, where the population is starving after the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023, now two years ago. And the location does not seem to be a coincidence: it is Su Giudeu beach.
Mario Carboni, president of the Chenabura – Sardos Pro Israele association, who previously called for the destruction of Gaza "like Hitler's Berlin," speaks of "anti-Semitism." "The anonymous heirs of the Nazi-Fascists and current supporters of Islamic jihadists, the authors of the poster, should sign a manifesto with their names so that they can be added to the list of signatories of the fascist race manifesto of the 1930s," he attacks. "Even then, there were Sardinians, as Emilio Lussu scornfully denounced in his masterful article in defense of the Jews." Carboni believes the authors of the initiative "are cowards, as well as ignorant, and will never do so. If they did, they should explain why they chose the Su Giudeu rock as the explicit target of their action, which is supposedly nocturnal."
Using a Sardinian dance as a graphic "is shameful to them, in the eyes of the Sardinian people who would never approve of the exploitation of one of their symbols of identity and community for such an explicitly racist message and action."
Carboni is a pearl of the end of the war, when "everything will be clearer and the fog of this anti-Semitic wave will dissipate with the defeat of Hamas and the liberation from this terrorist monster of the Palestinians, its first victims, and the social, cultural, and economic reconstruction."
The authors of the posters (more than one is said to have been posted) remain unknown at this time: "They even showed up at our place," says Alberto Bertolotti, owner of the Araj kiosk, "but we didn't let them put anything up. We don't engage in international politics here , and anyone is welcome."
The mayor of Domus De Maria, Maria Concetta Spada, immediately dispatched the local police upon learning of the posters' presence: "We proceeded with their removal. They were unauthorized," she explained, "and it was also a public order issue."
