Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister of Italy, is once again the center of criticism from the Italian Jewish community, this time, for the anti-Semitic statements and gestures of the youth of the Brothers of Italy, the party currently led by the prime minister.
The controversy began when a journalist from the Fanpage media infiltrated Gioventù Nazionale, the party's youth movement, and recorded its members shouting the Nazi slogan. Sieg Heil, in addition to other fascist statements. In the video they also used anti-Semitic phrases and chats against Ester Mieli, a Jewish senator from the same group.
The events were quickly condemned by the Jewish community and part of Italian politics. Given this, Meloni had to issue a statement in which he explained that “obviously he could not be aware and as I have said many times and I reiterate, I think that those who have racist, anti-Semitic or nostalgic feelings have come to the wrong place.”
Furthermore, he added that the expressions in the video were “incompatible with the Brothers of Italy, with the Italian right and with the political line,” and that no ambiguities were accepted about that.
Ohhhh no!…again the communists want to trick us, that the fascists are really fascists!…