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February 9, 2008
Italian Higher Education Minister Denounces Blog on 'Jewish Lobby' in Academe
Rome — Invoking memories of Fascism and the Nazi genocide, Italy’s higher-education minister, Fabio Mussi, on Friday denounced an online blog purporting to expose a “Jewish lobby” at Italian universities.
Listing the names of 162 “Jewish instructors” whom it accused of lobbying in favor of “Zionists” within Italian academe, the blog appeared last week and was taken down by its host site on Friday. (Readers can see a two-page snapshot of the posting.)
In a statement, Mr. Mussi called the list’s anonymous author the “legitimate heir of Eichmann,” and recalled the Mussolini regime’s 1938 Racial Laws, which banned Jews from teaching at schools and universities, as “one of the hardest blows to Italian science and learning.”
The blog identified the professors on the list, most of whom teach at the University of Rome La Sapienza, as signatories last year to a petition protesting a proposed boycott of Israel by British academe. Not all of those named are in fact Jewish.
“The attribution of Jewishness as an infamous accusation can only induce me to declare myself a ‘Jew by adoption,’” wrote one of those named, Chiara Saraceno, a professor of sociology at the University of Turin, in the newspaper La Stampa on Saturday.
Italy’s interior minister, Giuliano Amato, has ordered an investigation by the nation’s postal police. —Francis X. Rocca
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Notice the Catholic Church has not denounced this recent example of anti-semitism in a supposedly englightened country.
— Marty Feb 10, 02:58 PM #
Marty, why should the Catholic Church denounce it? 1) That would legitamize it and likely publicize it and 2) What’s the Catholic Church got to do with it anyway? The blogger didn’t identify him/herself as writing this blog for to preserve the sanctity of Catholicism/Christianity in Italian universities, for instance. I’m afraid I just don’t understand where you are coming from.
— Kate Feb 11, 10:16 AM #
Kate, how short are one’s memories … what Marty was alluding to of course was the deafening “silence” of the papacy during the horrific round-up of Jews in the Nazi period. One would think the Catholic Church would be more sensitive this time around given the world outcry of against its “complicity” with the Nazis during the 40s.
That’s where Marty’s coming from!
— Harris Feb 11, 10:56 AM #
Marty’s right. Note also the connection to La Sapienza — not exactly the Pope’s favorite Uni since they blocked his talk there last month.
— David Zetland Feb 11, 12:15 PM #
What’s the big deal? If a respected publisher like Farrar, Straus and Giroux can publish blatant anti-semitic tracts that Amazon.com willingly sells, then why shouldn’t a blogger be able to make the same spurious claims? Why single the blogger out? Jew bashing is all the rage! Why deny this guy his fun when everybody’s doing it!!!??
— marci Feb 11, 12:57 PM #
Coincidentally(?), FSG is owned by the German publishing conglomerate Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. And Amazon is the world’s largest source of antisemitic material. I find it interesting that Barnes & Noble (which carries far less antisemitica than Amazon) identifies the “Protocols” as a forgery on their website – Amazon does not. I have asked the ADL to protest the amount of antisemitica on sale at Amazon. The silence was deafening.
— steve wolk Feb 12, 12:14 PM #