Venice, afternoon, classroom of the University of Ca' Foscari: a small group of pro-PAL activists prevented the holding of a meeting-debate on the prospects for peace , interrupting the discussion in which former parliamentarian Emanuele Fiano was taking part , with slogans and signs against Zionism.

The meeting was promoted by the Futura association in collaboration with the Venice Foundation for Peace Research, chaired by Antonio Silvio Calò. In recent days, the Communist Youth Front movement had announced a demonstration "against Zionists in the university."

"The guys who had organized our meeting," Fiano reported, "had decided to move the venue. We had a half-hour Q&A session, when about forty guys with banners and signs came in and said they wouldn't let me speak anymore. I tried everything I could to continue, but they kept talking and telling lies about me. The fascist principle they have in mind is that anyone who doesn't share their ideas shouldn't speak. I'm shocked. The last time they expelled a Fiano from a place of study was in '38, with my father ," he commented.

Solidarity with the former Democratic Party deputy has come from across the political spectrum, from Democrats Piero Fassino to Simona Malpezzi and Beppe Provenzano, from Carlo Calenda to Gianmarco Centinaio. Senate President Ignazio La Russa also expressed support for Fiano: " At least in this case, citing fascism as a guiding principle for the pro-Pal movement is a bit risky ," he points out. "Perhaps it would be more honest and appropriate to reserve for fascism the undoubted historical guilt toward Italian Jews, and instead call the ideas that inspire the pro-Pal movement today by their names."

(Unioneonline)

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