Italy shuts down form tracking Israeli tourists and Jews over antisemitism

Italian authorities have shut down an anonymous online initiative asking the public to report the locations of Israeli tourists, Italian Jews and businesses believed to be linked to Zionism, prompting condemnation from senior government officials and Jewish leaders who likened the initiative to fascist-era persecution.

“I think we’re going back to the 1930s hunting for Jews,” Walker Meghnagi said. President of the Jewish Community of MilanHe said after the Google form started circulating on social media and messaging platforms.

The survey aims to map Zionist tourism, property purchases and what is described as “Zionist neo-colonialism” in Italy, it said. According to reports. Users were asked to identify Jews, Israelis and people believed to be affiliated with Zionism in hotels, vacation rentals, workplaces and other public places.

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“The online mapping of so-called ‘Zionist tourism’, rightly condemned by Walker Meghnagi, president of the Jewish Community of Milan, is a perverted enterprise that directly violates fundamental human rights and the constitutional principles on which our nation is founded,” Italian Senate President Ignazio La Russa wrote in a statement translated into English.

“No cataloging of individuals based on their religious beliefs or affiliation with Israel is unacceptable or justified. Behind all this lies a deep-seated anti-Semitism that must be rejected unanimously, unequivocally and decisively.” “We cannot remain inactive in the face of such serious facts that remind us of the ghosts of the past. My full sympathies to the Jewish Community.”

According to reports in the Italian and Israeli media, the form was removed following the intervention of General Pasquale Angelosanto, Italy’s national coordinator for combating anti-Semitism.

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View of participants in a flash mob demonstration in Milan, Northern Italy, on May 21, with people gathering in a public space to show solidarity with detained Global Sumud Flotilla activists. (AFP via Getty Images)

“This form is intended to record incidents of Zionist tourism, property purchases and, more generally, Zionist neo-colonialism in Italy,” the survey said. The statement was included.

It was stated that the information collected would be received by the Global Sumud Movement, an activist network linked to the flotilla efforts to reach the Gaza Strip, and would remain confidential. Participants were asked to provide sources so that the reports could be verified and used to coordinate unspecified “initiatives.”

The Global Sumud Movement has denied commissioning the form or knowing about it before the controversy broke out. Jerusalem Post.

“Zionism is one of the issues we are working on, but we are not hunting Jews and we know nothing about this survey,” the group told Italian newspaper La Repubblica. “We didn’t put it into service and hadn’t even seen it before it was taken offline.”

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The organization said it learned of the survey from the news and reserved the right to take further action, including making an official statement.

Later sections of the form asked participants to indicate where Jewish or Israeli visitors had been seen and to indicate whether local organizations or activist groups were currently “managing the phenomenon,” according to La Repubblica.

Meghnagi warned that collecting and distributing such information could encourage extremists to target Jews and Israelis.

“What happened today shows that there are unstable individuals out there, and if these types of messages spread widely enough, you’re bound to find someone willing to take action on this issue,” he said. “Therefore, mapping the whereabouts of the Jews is an extremely serious business.”

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Italian deputy foreign minister Alessandro Morelli ripped up the form, calling it “disgusting” and said those responsible should not go unpunished.