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July 16, 2018 - Av 4, 5778

NEWS

Italian Senate Establishes Committee
to Protect Human Rights

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Italian Senate established a committee for the protection of human rights last week. The bill providing for its creation received 260 votes in favor, 0 opposed and 16 abstentions.
The idea of creating a committee in contrast to the resurgence of racism was first suggested by Senator and Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre. The bill establishing the committee was then introduced by a number of MPs including Emma Bonino, historic leader of the Partito Radicale, traditionally very involved in the topic.
The Committee will be formed of 25 members and will promote the protection of human rights “as a pillar of the national legal system, as well as shared patrimony of the international community and humankind”.

NEWS

Italian Center-Left PD Criticized Socialist International for Supporting BDS

By Rossella Tercatin

The Italian center-left Partito Democratico called “a serious wound to the spirit of peace and dialogue that has always inspired the actions of Socialist International in the Middle East” the decision by the organization to pass a resolution supporting the Boycott, Disinvest and Sanction Israel campaign”.
The Partito Democratico is currently not a member of the Socialists International, although the DS is one of the parties whose merger started it, was.
Expressing the position of the party was one of its leaders Piero Fassino, the head of Partito Democratico’s foreign affairs.
“A boycott does not help to reopen the peace talks. On the contrary, it promotes a punitive attitude towards all Israelis, including the ones that are striving to find a solution and peace with the Palestinians,” he said.

FEATUREs

Stories of Hopes from Naples

By Jacqueline McKenna*

The Holocaust was a horrendous tragedy that threatens to diminish our faith in humanity. All over Europe families, children, mothers were separated and killed, revealing the utmost barbaric and inhumane side of our society. However, during this time there occurred events that may restore our faith in the goodness and compassion of humankind. One of these stories comes from Naples where families cast aside their religious differences and risked their lives to save their neighbors and fellow countrymen.
The Jewish community in Naples has never been large. Today there is only a fraction of the Jewish population that there was in the past. Around 200 Jews now live in Naples, but the size of the Jewish community has fluctuated over time. Naples went through periods of acceptance and periods of persecution of the Jews. In the 12th century around 500 Jewish families lived in Naples but the 13th century brought the arrival of priests and monks spreading anti-Jewish sentiment causing all Jews to be expelled from Naples or forced to convert.

*Jacqueline McKenna is a student at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA).

bechol lashon - deutsch

Gefühle

David Bidussa*

Im Jahr 1940, in einer besonders dunklen Zeit, schrieb George Orwell: "Im Bauch des Wals in der Überzeugung, zwei Welten gleichzeitig zu sehen, die Welt von heute in der Luftblase der Welt von gestern". So sehe ich uns heute.

*David Bidussa, Sozialhistoriker der Ideen
Übersetzung von Anna Zanette, Studentin der Hochschule für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer der Universität von Triest und Praktikantin bei der Zeitungsredaktion der Union der jüdischen Gemeinden von Italien (UCEI).

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double life

Colors

By Daniela Fubini*

The World Cup is over and the summer can start now, finally. It's too bad the Cup didn't go to Croatia, the typical underdog who collected fans all around the globe by ending up in a finale with an overwhelmingly lucky France who cannot be anyone's underdog but had instead the charm of an extreme melting pop displayed on the field.
On this side of the Mediterranean, where the migrations emergency exists only in the news reports about yet another boat full of desperate people that didn't receive permission to shore on Italian territory, a high percentage of players holding quite proudly a not too white shade of skin is just a fact. We tend to be less fussy when it comes to these topics and focus on what works and what doesn't to get eventually the prize.

*Daniela Fubini (Twitter @d_fubini) lives and writes in Israel, where she arrived in 2008 from Turin via New York.

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ITALICS

Italian Jewish Brigade to be honoured
with Gold Medal for Valour

By Rosie Whitehouse*

Lia Quartapelle has fought for many years for recognition of the role that the Jewish Brigade’s 5,000 soldiers played in the liberation of the Italian peninsula in 1944.
Last month, the MP for the centre-left Democratic Party announced a victory: the veterans were to be awarded the centuries-old Gold Medal for Valour at a ceremony in Israel later in the summer.
The Jewish Brigade was formed in British-controlled Mandatory Palestine in 1944. It fought its way up Italy as part of the British Eighth Army, seeing action in the crucial Battle of the Senio River in the spring of 1945. Many of its soldiers are buried in the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery of Piangipane, near Ravenna.

*The article was published in The Jewish Chronicle on July 16, 2018.

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