Italy shuts down effort linked to Gaza flotilla group to track Jewish, Israeli tourists

Italian authorities unopen down an anonymous online effort that asked the nationalist to study the locations of Israeli tourists, Italian Jews and businesses believed to person ties to Zionism, drafting condemnation from elder authorities officials and Jewish leaders who compared the inaugural to fascist-era persecution.

"I deliberation we’re going backmost to the 1930s, to hunting Jews," Walker Meghnagi, president of the Jewish Community of Milan, said aft the Google signifier began circulating connected societal media and messaging platforms.

The questionnaire said it was intended to "map Zionist tourism," spot purchases and what it described arsenic "Zionist neo-colonization" successful Italy, according to reports. It asked users to place Jews, Israelis and radical believed to beryllium connected to Zionism astatine hotels, abrogation rentals, businesses and different nationalist places.

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People instrumentality portion successful a flash mob entitled "In the aforesaid boat" to protestation the detention and attraction of activists participating successful the Global Sumud Flotilla successful Milan, bluish Italy, connected May 21, 2026. (AFP via Getty Images)

"The online mapping of alleged 'Zionist tourism,' rightly denounced by the president of the Jewish Community of Milan, Walker Meghnagi, is an aberrant initiative, successful nonstop usurpation of cardinal quality rights and the law principles connected which our federation is founded," Italian Senate President Ignazio La Russa wrote successful a statement, arsenic translated to English.

"No signifier of cataloguing of persons connected the ground of their spiritual content oregon their transportation with Israel is acceptable oregon justifiable. Behind each this lies a profound anti-Semitism that indispensable beryllium unanimously, firmly, and determinedly rejected," helium added. "We cannot stay motionless successful the look of specified superior facts that callback the ghosts of the past. To the Jewish Community each my closeness."

The signifier was removed pursuing the involution of Gen. Pasquale Angelosanto, Italy’s nationalist coordinator for the combat against antisemitism, according to Italian and Israeli media reports.

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A presumption of participants successful a May 21 flash mob objection successful Milan, bluish Italy, with radical gathered successful nationalist abstraction to amusement solidarity with detained Global Sumud Flotilla activists. (AFP via Getty Images)

"This signifier is intended to grounds cases of Zionist tourism, spot purchases, and, much generally, Zionist neo-colonization successful Italy," the questionnaire stated.

It said the accusation collected would beryllium received by the Global Sumud Movement, an activistic web associated with flotilla efforts to scope the Gaza Strip, and would stay confidential. Respondents were asked to supply sources truthful the reports could beryllium verified and utilized to coordinate unspecified "initiatives."

The Global Sumud Movement denied commissioning the signifier oregon knowing astir it earlier the contention erupted, according to The Jerusalem Post.

"Zionism is 1 of the issues we enactment on, but we bash not hunt Jews, and we cognize thing astir this questionnaire," the radical told the Italian paper La Repubblica. "We did not committee it and had not adjacent seen it earlier it was taken offline."

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Seen Oct. 2, 2025, successful Piazzale Loreto successful Milan, Italy, demonstrators enactment successful a protestation supporting the Global Sumud Flotilla aft its interception by the Israeli service disconnected the Gaza coast. (Alessandro Bremec/NurPhoto)

The enactment said it learned astir the questionnaire done quality reports and reserved the close to instrumentality further action, including issuing a ceremonial statement.

According to La Repubblica, aboriginal sections of the signifier asked respondents to sanction locations wherever Jewish oregon Israeli visitors had been seen and to bespeak whether section organizations oregon activistic groups were already "managing the phenomenon."

Meghnagi warned that collecting and circulating specified accusation could promote extremists to people Jews and Israelis.

"What is happening contiguous shows that determination are unbalanced individuals retired there, and if this benignant of connection spreads wide enough, you are definite to find idiosyncratic consenting to enactment connected it," helium said. "For this reason, mapping wherever Jews are is highly serious."

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Alessandro Morelli, an Italian lawman caput of state, ripped the signifier arsenic "abhorrent" and said those liable should not spell unpunished.