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January 20, 2020 - Tevet 23, 5780

NEWS

Italy adopts IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Last week the Italian government approved the operational definition of anti-Semitism formulated by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The move marks a turning point that aligns Italy with other European countries and that comes together with the formalization of the appointment of Professor Milena Santerini as national coordinator against anti-Semitism.
The request to adopt the definition had been repeatedly formulated by the Union of Italian Jewish Communities.
"The Italian government - commented UCEI President Noemi Di Segni – is writing a fundamental page in the fight against anti-Jewish hatred in all its forms, including the particularly insidious one of those who undermine Israel's right to exist and defend itself. The gap is finally filled, as already it was done by other European countries, on the basis of the resolution of the European Parliament and the most recent and unanimous decision of the Council of Europe. Today is an important day that will mark the beginning of a process of further technical and legal examination and sharing with other institutions in the country.”

NEWS

Major sports and soccer figures gather
at UCEI to kick racism out of Italian stadiums

By Adam Smulevich

The leaders of Italian sport and soccer have joined the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) to kick racism and antisemitism out of Italian stadiums.
The issue was addressed during an event attended, together with UCEI President Noemi Di Segni who organized it, by Minister of Sports Vincenzo Spadafora, President of the Italian Football Association Gabriele Gravina, President of the Italian Football Player Association Damiano Tommasi, CEO of the Lega Calcio Serie A Luigi De Siervo and Lega Pro soccer President Francesco Ghirelli. The event was introduced by journalist Paola Severini Melograni.

NEWS

Italian government appoints national coordinator against anti-Semitism

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Italian government has appointed its first national coordinator in the fight against anti-Semitism: the selected official is Milena Santerini, professor of pedagogy at the Catholic University and vice president of the Shoah Memorial in Milan.
“From a personal point of view I am very honored and I feel a great responsibility. Anti-Semitism is not an issue just for some citizens but for the whole society, which must collectively choose whether to grow along the path of peaceful coexistence or whether to choose the path of exclusion and discrimination. Anti-Semitism therefore concerns the whole of Italy and we are in a particular moment in which we have been assisting in a growth of episodes of hatred,” she told Pagine Ebraiche.

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Eine unauflösbare Verbindung

Anna Foa*

Senatorin Segre lehnte mit ihrer typischen Freundlichkeit die Einladung von Matteo Salvini ab, an der von der Lega organisierten Konferenz gegen Antisemitismus teilzunehmen. Sie wollte aber auch unterstreichen, dass der Kampf gegen Antisemitismus nicht von dem gegen Rassismus getrennt werden kann. Ich glaube, dass alle, und vor allem Juden, diese Aussage mit Erleichterung und Anteilnahme empfangen sollen.

*Übersetzung von Rachele Ferin, 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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A true barbarian

By David Bidussa*

I happened to read by chance some pages by Michel de Montaigne, pages dedicated to cannibals (Essays, Book I, chap. XXXI). The philosopher reflects on the episodes of cannibalism that characterized the religious war between Catholics and Protestants. When it comes to brutality, civilized Europe has nothing to learn from the savages of the Americas. A true barbarian is he who believes he is not.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

Italian police arrest suspected
synagogue vandal caught on video

By JTA staff*

Police in the northeast Italian city of Trieste analyzed security videos to identify and arrest a man suspected of vandalizing the city’s synagogue twice in the past few months.
The suspect was accused of breaking two windows “for the purposes of ethnic-religious hatred,” police said.
A statement issued this week said careful analysis of the video enabled police to identify the suspect, an unemployed Italian man around 30 years old who was already “known to the police.”They said he punched out exterior windows at the synagogue on Oct. 24, 2019, and Jan. 3.

*The article was published in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on January 16, 2020.

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