In the last few hours, despicable writings against Lidano Grassucci — president of the association “La Scelta per Davide. Latina Amica di Israele” — have appeared in an attempt to intimidate those who have always fought for dialogue and for Israel’s right to exist in peace.
“The Nazis wrote to me to put me in the crematorium,” Grassucci said in an article published in Fatto a Latina. “The neo-communists had already done it. I remain a Zionist.” Words that clearly photograph the resurgence of an anti-Semitism that has never disappeared, but that today disguises itself as anti-Zionism to re-emerge in new forms. To make the air we breathe even more alarming, Grassucci himself denounces it: “A witch-hunt climate has been created with anyone who thinks differently, with anyone who tries to raise doubts about other reasons in the comparison. Supporting Israel’s theses becomes an “offense” to a presumed do-goodism, all behind a hypocrisy that conceals a profound anti-Semitism. Naturally, I do not back down one iota from what I believe in. Even after the writings and threats, on social media they continue to support my “being a criminal,” “a murderer of children,” and that the threats are justified,” Grassucci added to Shalom .
The intimidating gesture against Grassucci is much more than a personal attack: it is an attack on the right to support Israel, to defend historical memory, to fight against the hatred that, today as yesterday, can generate monsters. The association “La Scelta per Davide” has been a cultural and human stronghold against prejudice, against propaganda, against any form of denialism for years. As stated by Celeste Vichi, president of the Union of Italy-Israel Associations, “We stand alongside Lidano Grassucci against the absolute evil that, in the name of hatred against Israel, has raised its head again. It is the old anti-Semitism in its new form of anti-Zionism. It is the same hatred, it is the same evil. We join this stance, forcefully requesting that the competent authorities identify as soon as possible those responsible for this infamous act and prosecute them in all appropriate venues, criminal, civil and administrative”.
