Francesca Albanese

I mean, as a European, the first thing that I feel when I hear the word antisemitism is repulsion.

Because this is what I've been raised to, recognize that hating others on the ground of

No, but it's not even that.

It's the lack of logic.

It's really the performance of stupidity behind it.

Because antisemitism, it's hatred against the Jews because they are Jews.

While, frankly, I don't have anything against Israel for the religion it professes.

It could be Buddhist, it could be Muslim, it could be secular.

The point is not what Israel is, is what Israel does.

And the other thing, I mean, people like me, people who stand for human rights, like the majority of European citizens who are taking the streets, they just can't sleep at night because of the images that pop up on their phones all the time.

There is a level of distress that I've never seen, including in my own country.

I mean, Italy is not the most active country when it comes to global tragedies.

I remember I was in the UK during the Iraq invasion

And the British people have protested for years.

I mean, in Italy, much less.

But this thing, this genocide in Gaza, it's something that has really awakened a sense of a conscience that we almost had lost.

And I expect no less in the continent that has seen already a genocide happening on its own soil.

So again, I'm horrified by the fact that while there is an awakening of conscience among ordinary citizens, their governments continue to deny the genocide while obliterating international law, the international law that is our social contract at the international level.

it's what i mean has not benefit benefited everyone the global north has benefited more than the global south i would say but this is what has kept us protected for 80 years and it seems to me that today it's all going in the same direction rearming rearming investing in in wars

preparing for wars while schools and other services and hospitals, which are in need for our taxes, get poorer and poorer.