Such books generally receive little attention in the principal media but are widely
reviewed and shared via numerous websites, social networks, forums and militant
magazines.
All the publishing houses that publish anti-Semitic books have websites and/or
profiles on the principal social networks (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter) and also
collaborate with selected bookshops, often online, that sell their publications. It is
currently quite easy to obtain these texts because they are available from the major online
booksellers such as Amazon and IBS.
In 2015, twenty-two books were published with anti-Semitic content. Of them, ten
are classics of anti-Semitic ideology and twelve are new works; twenty-one are non-fiction
and one is fiction; nine are out of the Nazi mold, seven reflect traditionalist Catholic
thinking, four are anti-Zionist, and only one is negationist because this vein of thinking
tends to be developed more widely on the web.
Anti-Zionism
The Israeli-Palestine conflict fuels antipathy toward Jews. The reiterated representation of
Israel as a “racist”, “apartheid” state generates resentment, indignation and hostility
toward Jews, a sentiment that re-emerges with every new crisis in the Middle East. In
2015, in addition to recurring episodes – graffiti, red paint on the Israeli flag, anti-Zionist
letters to the editor, publication of anti-Zionist essays – the most significant expressions of
anti-Zionism in 2015 were: verbal attacks on Emanuele Fiano, the eighth edition of the
Enrico Mattei master’s course, and the projection in various universities and municipal
cinemas, sometimes with the sponsorship of the municipality, of the anti-Semitic
documentary Israele: IL CANCRO [Israel: THE CANCER].
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An anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic campaign conducted by Fronte Palestina, an antiZionist movement close to the terrorist organization Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). On the occasion of the visit by Palestinian president
Abu Mazen to Expo Milano 2015, Fronte Palestina promoted the mobilization
campaign “No Expo – No Israel” and passed out a flyer “Appeal for mobilization:
we continue the campaign No Expo – No Israel”, filled with anti-Zionist and antiSemitic vitriol and attacks directed principally at Emanuele Fiano, member of the
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