Shock in Rome: Anti-Semitic graffiti near a synagogue
Anti-Semitic graffiti spray painted on a store in the city center • Is it in the price tag, in response to an event of solidarity with Brussels Jews?
- Yoel Bitelman
- כ"ט אייר התשע"ד
Is this a byproduct of the Pope's visit to Israel?
Anti-Semitic graffiti were daubed this morning (Tuesday) on the walls of a pasta shop in central Rome.
The incident took place probably in the middle of the night at the pasta manufacturing factory store owned by non-Jews, which is in Palio Fartoanzi. Shop walls were spray with black paint with the words'Jews out of Palio', 'a Jewish -owned store' and swastikas.
Rabbi Menachem Lazar, Chabad emissary in the city, says to Behadrey Haredim: "Police believe that this is a price tag for the event held last night at the Jewish Museum in the Jewish ghetto in Rome. Abnormally the gates to the Jewish Museum were open from eight to twelve at night for the general public, when entry was free. The event was in support of the attack and murder at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, and reached many local politicians who wanted to show solidarity with the Jews.
"I think it was their retaliation, that is where they chose to write the graffiti is not far from the synagogue and the neighborhood where Jews reside," concluded Rabbi Lazar, explaining that last year there were no anti-Semitic incidents in the city - except graffiti here and there.
He said that in Italy there is a radical anti-Semitic party called Five Star movement, this party uttered before anti-Semitic views in the last elections which doubled and tripled its power. But the elections held last Sunday – they fell.
Anti-Semitic graffiti were daubed this morning (Tuesday) on the walls of a pasta shop in central Rome.
The incident took place probably in the middle of the night at the pasta manufacturing factory store owned by non-Jews, which is in Palio Fartoanzi. Shop walls were spray with black paint with the words'Jews out of Palio', 'a Jewish -owned store' and swastikas.
Rabbi Menachem Lazar, Chabad emissary in the city, says to Behadrey Haredim: "Police believe that this is a price tag for the event held last night at the Jewish Museum in the Jewish ghetto in Rome. Abnormally the gates to the Jewish Museum were open from eight to twelve at night for the general public, when entry was free. The event was in support of the attack and murder at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, and reached many local politicians who wanted to show solidarity with the Jews.
"I think it was their retaliation, that is where they chose to write the graffiti is not far from the synagogue and the neighborhood where Jews reside," concluded Rabbi Lazar, explaining that last year there were no anti-Semitic incidents in the city - except graffiti here and there.
He said that in Italy there is a radical anti-Semitic party called Five Star movement, this party uttered before anti-Semitic views in the last elections which doubled and tripled its power. But the elections held last Sunday – they fell.
הוספת תגובה
לכתבה זו טרם התפרסמו תגובות