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01/09/2009: "Italy criticizes call for Jewish boycott over Gaza"

Italian politicians from right and left joined Jewish groups Friday in condemning a trade union's call to boycott Jewish-owned shops in Rome in protest at the Israeli bombing offensive in the Gaza Strip.

While the union denied accusations of anti-Semitism, Rome's right-wing mayor Gianni Alemanno visited the city's ancient Jewish quarter known as the Ghetto and said the "criminal" proposal echoed the race laws under fascism in the 1930s.

[ It is guaranteed to annoy the "Left" when they are accused by someone on the "Right" of following in the footsteps of Mussolini's race laws! Probably this is the main reason why the mayor used such rhetoric. ]


http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5082FY20090109