At the site of a Nazi massacre, the Jews are forgotten
Former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s speech at Sant’Anna di Stazzema shows how the Palestinian cause is becoming a political and moral rallying point for parts of the European left.Conte is an especially interesting case in the antisemitic tsunami now engulfing much of the world. The former prime minister and current leader of the left-wing populist Five Star Movement is a key ally of Democratic Party leader Elly Schlein and a potential candidate to lead Italy again. Italian media are already portraying his political moves with an eye toward a future contest for leadership of the left-wing coalition.Increasingly, Conte appears to be using the Palestinian cause as a moral glue for the electorate he hopes to assemble, much as New York politician Zohran Mamdani has done in the United States.That is what made his appearance this week at Sant’Anna di Stazzema so significant.Sant’Anna is not simply another Italian village with…
During a commemoration at Sant’Anna di Stazzema, the site of a 1944 Nazi-Fascist massacre in Italy, former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte invoked the conflict in Gaza while omitting the antisemitic motivations behind the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel. Conte, a potential future leader of Italy's left-wing coalition, used his speech to condemn what he called the “horror” in Gaza, claiming “over 20,000 defenseless children have been massacred by the Israeli army.” Critics argue that Conte's remarks at a site symbolizing Nazi barbarism, whose core ideology was the extermination of Jews, inappropriately shifted focus from the recent mass murder of Jews to accusations against the Jewish state, thereby reshaping historical memory for political gain.
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