"I want to remind everyone that the Zionists and the fascists were allies before '38 and Italian fascism trained the Zionists to go to Palestine, to occupy it and kill the Palestinians." These are the words pronounced from the stage of the April 25th party in Piazza del Carmine, in Cagliari, by the representative of the Sardinia-Palestine association Fawzi Ismail.
Statements which, while Israel is massing the tanks, apparently, to prepare for the invasion of Rafah, trigger the reaction of "Chenabura -Sardos pro Israel", a Cagliari-based organization which speaks through the president, Mario Carboni: «We openly contest the Committee's choice 25 April to welcome on the stage in Piazza del Carmine, on the occasion of the celebration dedicated to the Italian resistance, an exponent of open pro-Palestinian ideology who, without any cross-examination or reminder, was allowed to deliver a speech that denies the historical truth of the facts and once again it was offensive towards the Jews and the State of Israel."
For Carboni, those who attacked Israel "do not know history or instrumentally tried to reread it to justify their presence on a stage, organized to honor the fallen and the Italian anti-fascist and anti-Nazi fighters who, and this is an unequivocal historical fact, were helped by heroic Jewish Brigade. An undeniable fact, but hypocritically at the demonstrations of April 25th, for years now, their representation has been hindered if not openly contested."
The Chenàbura association "has long since given up participating in an event that puts our dignity at risk, if not also our physical safety."
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
