Italian shop union drawing up list of Jewish owned shops

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so Jewish owned stores in Italy can be boycotted.Mayor of Rome condemms boycott    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3653095,00.html 


     

Jews in Rome outraged over boycott call

The Times quotes Jewish community leaders in Italian capital as saying trades union proposal to 'identify and boycott' Jewish-owned shops was reminiscent of anti-Semitic racial laws adopted by Mussolini

Ynet
Published:    01.08.09, 18:49 / Israel News

Jewish community leaders in Rome expressed outrage over a trades union proposal to "identify and boycott" Jewish-owned shops in the Italian capital in protest of Israel's operation in Gaza, The Times reported Thursday.

 

 
The proposal was put forward by Giancarlo Desiderati, leader of the Flaica-Uniti-Cub union, which represents 8000 shop assistants in Rome, the report said.

 

According to the London-based newspaper, Gianni Alemanno, the mayor of Rome, condemned the boycott call, and Jewish leaders said it was reminiscent of the anti-Semitic racial laws adopted seventy years ago by the Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini in imitation of Nazi Germany, under which only "Aryan" shops were allowed to open.

 
Asked if he was aware of the comparison, Desiderati was quoted by The Times as saying "we know we will have everyone against us, but we cannot pass over in silence what is happening in Gaza".

 

He said his union had already urged its members to boycott Israeli products, and boycotting Jewish-owned or Jewish-run stores was a logical next step, according to The Times.

 
Muslim leaders apologize

Desiderati added that he and his supporters were drawing up a list of Jewish shops, "though it might be better to publish a list of streets in which a majority of the shops are Jewish and ask people to avoid those streets when shopping".

 

"For fifty years we have been concerned for the Jews because of what they suffered in the Holocaust, but now it is time to be concerned for the Palestinians, who are the Jews of today", he was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

 

The Times further reported that Muslim leaders in Milan said they had apologized to Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, the archbishop of Milan, for an incident last weekend in which Muslim demonstrators burned Israeli flags during a mass protest against Israeli actions in Gaza which ended in unauthorized Islamic prayers in front of Milan cathedral.

 

The protesters broke through a police cordon to reach the square, the report said. The Times said Asfa Mahmoud, head of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Milan said he and other Muslim spokesmen had asked for a meeting with the cardinal to "clarify" what had happened and express regret.

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This is the most stupid statement I have ever read:

"For fifty years we have been concerned for the Jews because of what they suffered in the Holocaust, but now it is time to be concerned for the Palestinians, who are the Jews of today", he was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

The so-called Palestinkians are not Jews. They hate Jews and are pledged to destroy Jews. What kind of twisted mind makes such a statement? Does the word 'Jew' mean someone who is abused? According to my definition a Jew is a person born from a Jewish mother, or someone who goes through a conversion process. It is an insult to Jews everywhere to make a statement like "Palestinkians are the new Jews"....

Hogwash!

[mord]

This is the most stupid statement I have ever read:

"For fifty years we have been concerned for the Jews because of what they suffered in the Holocaust, but now it is time to be concerned for the Palestinians, who are the Jews of today", he was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

The so-called Palestinkians are not Jews. They hate Jews and are pledged to destroy Jews. What kind of twisted mind makes such a statement? Does the word 'Jew' mean someone who is abused? According to my definition a Jew is a person born from a Jewish mother, or someone who goes through a conversion process. It is an insult to Jews everywhere to make a statement like "Palestinkians are the new Jews"....

Hogwash!

True i never saw the word  Jewish as person being oppressed in dictionary.Although the  muzzies aren't being abused

[P J C]

This is the most stupid statement I have ever read:

"For fifty years we have been concerned for the Jews because of what they suffered in the Holocaust, but now it is time to be concerned for the Palestinians, who are the Jews of today", he was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

The so-called Palestinkians are not Jews. They hate Jews and are pledged to destroy Jews. What kind of twisted mind makes such a statement? Does the word 'Jew' mean someone who is abused? According to my definition a Jew is a person born from a Jewish mother, or someone who goes through a conversion process. It is an insult to Jews everywhere to make a statement like "Palestinkians are the new Jews"....

Hogwash!

How can someone even attempt to compare such a brilliant people, to the biggest bottom feeding glorified protester fakestinian pieces of [censored] on the face of the earth?

[zachor_ve_kavod]

This is the most stupid statement I have ever read:

"For fifty years we have been concerned for the Jews because of what they suffered in the Holocaust, but now it is time to be concerned for the Palestinians, who are the Jews of today", he was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

The so-called Palestinkians are not Jews. They hate Jews and are pledged to destroy Jews. What kind of twisted mind makes such a statement? Does the word 'Jew' mean someone who is abused? According to my definition a Jew is a person born from a Jewish mother, or someone who goes through a conversion process. It is an insult to Jews everywhere to make a statement like "Palestinkians are the new Jews"....

Hogwash!

You're right.  The so-called "Palestinians" are actually the Nazis of today.

They are the Nazis of today, and they were also the Nazis of yesterday.

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ALMOST all Italians condemm this union                 




Italy criticizes call for Jewish boycott over Gaza
06:07 AM EST

By Stephen Brown

ROME (Reuters) - 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.

"I am an Italian citizen and it infuriates me that people don't differentiate between the mentality and opinions of an Italian from what is happening in Israel," Jewish Italian shopkeeper Giuseppe Livoli told La Repubblica newspaper.

Israel's offensive against Hamas guerrillas has lasted two weeks and the U.N. Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire. Hamas officials say the Palestinian death toll is now 783 people, more than a third of them children.

Israel says its aim is to put a stop to years of rocket fire by Hamas on Israeli towns that have killed 22 people since 2000.

Italian newspapers reproduced handbills they said were dished out Thursday by the small Flaica-Cub union, linked to the retail and food sectors. The flyers urged a boycott of "shops in central Rome linked to the Israelite community."

But the union's provincial president Giancarlo Desiderati said on its website Friday that "we never singled out Rome's Jewish community ... We condemn any form of anti-Semitism."

"What we propose with our initiative is a definitive boycott of Israel because whoever uses military force against unarmed civilians, whether they are Palestinian or Israeli, commits a crime against human life," said Desiderati.

The head of Rome's Jewish community, Riccardo Pacifici, said he would be suing the union under Italian anti-racism laws.

Rome's Ghetto is home to what may be the oldest surviving Jewish diaspora in the world, dating from the 2nd century B.C.E.. Singled out by race laws under dictator Benito Mussolini in the 1930s and '40s, thousands died in Nazi concentration camps.

Italy's main trade unions denounced the boycott proposal as "shameful" and suggested that Rome shopkeepers throw the Flaica handbills -- which they said listed streets dominated by Jewish shops under the slogan "sales dirtied by blood" -- in the trash.

(Editing by Jon Boyle)    http://mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/FullArticle/CTOP/ntopNews_uUSTRE5082FY20090109?src=RSS-TOP

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ALMOST all Italians condemm this union                 




Italy criticizes call for Jewish boycott over Gaza
06:07 AM EST

By Stephen Brown

ROME (Reuters) - 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.

"I am an Italian citizen and it infuriates me that people don't differentiate between the mentality and opinions of an Italian from what is happening in Israel," Jewish Italian shopkeeper Giuseppe Livoli told La Repubblica newspaper.

Israel's offensive against Hamas guerrillas has lasted two weeks and the U.N. Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire. Hamas officials say the Palestinian death toll is now 783 people, more than a third of them children.

Israel says its aim is to put a stop to years of rocket fire by Hamas on Israeli towns that have killed 22 people since 2000.

Italian newspapers reproduced handbills they said were dished out Thursday by the small Flaica-Cub union, linked to the retail and food sectors. The flyers urged a boycott of "shops in central Rome linked to the Israelite community."

But the union's provincial president Giancarlo Desiderati said on its website Friday that "we never singled out Rome's Jewish community ... We condemn any form of anti-Semitism."

"What we propose with our initiative is a definitive boycott of Israel because whoever uses military force against unarmed civilians, whether they are Palestinian or Israeli, commits a crime against human life," said Desiderati.

The head of Rome's Jewish community, Riccardo Pacifici, said he would be suing the union under Italian anti-racism laws.

Rome's Ghetto is home to what may be the oldest surviving Jewish diaspora in the world, dating from the 2nd century B.C.E.. Singled out by race laws under dictator Benito Mussolini in the 1930s and '40s, thousands died in Nazi concentration camps.

Italy's main trade unions denounced the boycott proposal as "shameful" and suggested that Rome shopkeepers throw the Flaica handbills -- which they said listed streets dominated by Jewish shops under the slogan "sales dirtied by blood" -- in the trash.

(Editing by Jon Boyle)    http://mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/FullArticle/CTOP/ntopNews_uUSTRE5082FY20090109?src=RSS-TOP

I figured they would get plenty of heat for that. There is much more support for Israel in Italy than almost any European country.

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ALMOST all Italians condemm this union                 




Italy criticizes call for Jewish boycott over Gaza
06:07 AM EST

By Stephen Brown

ROME (Reuters) - 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.

"I am an Italian citizen and it infuriates me that people don't differentiate between the mentality and opinions of an Italian from what is happening in Israel," Jewish Italian shopkeeper Giuseppe Livoli told La Repubblica newspaper.

Israel's offensive against Hamas guerrillas has lasted two weeks and the U.N. Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire. Hamas officials say the Palestinian death toll is now 783 people, more than a third of them children.

Israel says its aim is to put a stop to years of rocket fire by Hamas on Israeli towns that have killed 22 people since 2000.

Italian newspapers reproduced handbills they said were dished out Thursday by the small Flaica-Cub union, linked to the retail and food sectors. The flyers urged a boycott of "shops in central Rome linked to the Israelite community."

But the union's provincial president Giancarlo Desiderati said on its website Friday that "we never singled out Rome's Jewish community ... We condemn any form of anti-Semitism."

"What we propose with our initiative is a definitive boycott of Israel because whoever uses military force against unarmed civilians, whether they are Palestinian or Israeli, commits a crime against human life," said Desiderati.

The head of Rome's Jewish community, Riccardo Pacifici, said he would be suing the union under Italian anti-racism laws.

Rome's Ghetto is home to what may be the oldest surviving Jewish diaspora in the world, dating from the 2nd century B.C.E.. Singled out by race laws under dictator Benito Mussolini in the 1930s and '40s, thousands died in Nazi concentration camps.

Italy's main trade unions denounced the boycott proposal as "shameful" and suggested that Rome shopkeepers throw the Flaica handbills -- which they said listed streets dominated by Jewish shops under the slogan "sales dirtied by blood" -- in the trash.

(Editing by Jon Boyle)    http://mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/FullArticle/CTOP/ntopNews_uUSTRE5082FY20090109?src=RSS-TOP

I figured they would get plenty of heat for that. There is much more support for Israel in Italy than almost any European country.

Yes i would'nt be suprised if the majority of this small union is made up of moslems.Like some U.S. unions have majority illegal aliens