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The danger of Italy becoming part of growing Eurabia alerts some Italians to wake up. The major themes of the Eurabian antisemitic culture were borrowed from the Arab world, where most had already been diffused since the 1950s by the Arab League and Islamic Office. Such as, boycotting Israel culturally and isolating it on the international scene—a policy which recreated the status of the ghetto Jews in Christianity and of the dhimmis in Islam. Ghetto is Italian word and many Italians rejected the race laws of Nazi Germany despite being chief ally of Fascist Italy.

Even if some years ago antisemitism and anti zionism represented an option among others for Europe, today it is imposed by the demographic Muslim pressure from within, combined with the terrorist threat from without—unless Europeans themselves reassert a new consciousness of their own identity and destiny, highly improbable today after decades of debilitating indoctrination.


Italian academics’ Technion boycott slammed as ‘fascist’

February 2, 2016


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File: Protesters urging a boycott against Israel. (Wikimedia Commons)

Thousands of Italians are calling for a boycott of 200 students and lecturers from their own country who urged a boycott of Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa.


The original petition called to boycott Israeli universities due to their “notorious complicity” with the country’s “state violence” in the conflict with the Palestinians.

Some 30 of the lecturers teach at the University of Turin in the country’s north. Turin Mayor Piero Fassino expressed his own opposition to the boycott call.

The petition, produced by a group calling itself the Italian Campaign for the Revocation of Agreements with the Technion, accuses the Israeli institute of working in lockstep with the Israel Defense Forces and arms producers.

The center-right Italian daily Il Folio described the efforts to boycott Israeli academic institutions as a return to the days of fascism, when under the dictatorship of Nazi-allied Benito Mussolini Jewish lecturers were removed from academic institutions in Italy, Israel Radio reported Tuesday.

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi hold a joint press conference at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on July 21, 2015. (Flash90/Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)


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French high court: BDS activists guilty of discriminationJudges upholds ruling against activists who called to boycott Israeli products; French law prohibits targeting of nations for discrimination

BY JTA October 23, 2015, 11:18

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France’s highest court of appeals confirmed earlier rulings that found promoters of a boycott against Israel guilty of inciting hate or discrimination.



The rulings passed on Tuesday by the Paris-based Court of Cassation confirmed the convictions of 12 individuals by the Colmar Court of Appeals in connection with their 2009 and 2010 actions in supermarkets near the eastern city of Mulhouse.


The individuals arrived at the supermarket wearing shirts emblazoned with the words: “Long live Palestine, boycott Israel.” They also handed out flyers that said that “buying Israeli products means legitimizing crimes in Gaza.”

The court in Colmar imposed fines to the collective tune of $14,500 and court expenses on Laila Assakali, Yahya Assakali, Assya Ben Lakbir, Habiba Assakali, Sylviane Mure, Farida Sarr, Aline Parmentier, Mohammad Akbar, Jean-Michel Baldassi, Maxime Roll, Jacques Ballouey and Henry Eichholtzer.

They appealed the ruling citing their freedom to express their opinion.

In confirming the sentences, the Court of Cassation cited the French republic’s law on Freedom of the Press, which prescribes imprisonment or a fine of up to $50,000 for parties that “provoke discrimination, hatred or violence toward a person or group of people on grounds of their origin, their belonging or their not belonging to an ethnic group, a nation, a race or a certain religion.”

In France, several dozen promoters of a boycott against Israel — including through the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment Movement, or BDS —- have been convicted of inciting hate or discrimination. In addition to the law on the press, some activists have been convicted based on the Lellouche law, passed in 2003, which extends anti-racism laws to the targeting of specific nations for discriminatory treatment.

“BDS is illegal in France,” wrote Pascal Makowicz, head of the legal department of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, in a statement he published Tuesday on the group’s website. The actions of the people convicted, he added, “are completely illegal. If they say their freedom of expression has been violated, then now France’s highest legal instance ruled otherwise.”



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Under demographic pressure, Islamism has entrenched itself in Europe’s strategic nerve centers, engineering a growing submission to foreign culture

Last week, several nudes there were hidden to avoid offending the Iranian president. Italy also chose not to serve wine at official meals, a gesture France, where Mr Rouhani travels next, has refused to copy.


Plywood boxes conceal nude statues at a museum in Rome for the Iranian president's visit AP

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