More Antisemitic Displays in an Italy Gone Mad

Though the governments of Ireland, Spain, and Norway are more hostile to Israel than Italy, in the size of its anti-Israel protests, the Bel Paese comes in first. In early October 2025, 400,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators screamed their slogans: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” “Death, death, to the IDF,” “Globalize the Intifada,” and others to that ghastly effect, in 29 cities, including Milan, Venice, Rome, Udine, Florence, and two dozen others. They waved their Palestinian flags, keffiyehs draped around their necks, and screamed their hatred of the Jewish state, that according to them is a colonial-settler apartheid genocidal country that should be replaced by a 23rd Arab state. And there were scrawls on synagogues, and attacks on Jews who dared to