Milan, 29 October (LaPresse) – When pro-Pal activists stormed a debate at Ca' Foscari University in Venice on Monday in which Emanuele Fiano was participating, "I continued to speak, while a girl shouted at the top of her voice to silence me, attributing opinions to me that I have never held: I have always been critical of Netanyahu. Since they couldn't silence me, a young man came up to the podium, snatched the microphone from me and began reading an old article I wrote for Il Foglio on anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. In short, we let them vent, hoping to be able to resume.‘ This is what Fiano himself recounts in an interview with Corriere della Sera. But, he continues, ’there was nothing to be done, despite the protests of the audience, who wanted to send them away. At that point, some of the young people pointed their P38s at the audience." “I was very struck to see such an ancient gesture of threat made by such young hands, younger than those of my children. But I couldn't let myself be sent away. I owed it to my father,” he adds, 'I was shocked. I thought they would talk and then let me continue. And then that P38 gesture. Those icy eyes, without any pity, telling me: you can't speak here. I thought back to the dark years. To the years of lead. To 1938. And I was moved thinking about my father. When the headmaster said to him: Nedo Fiano, you have to leave."
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