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Balzano observes that the political climate seems to impose a taboo: one can criticize the Netanyahu government, but not the State of Israel, and he recalls that the director of Il Fatto Quotidiano, Marco Travaglio, on Otto e mezzo, cited Ovadia to support the assertion that it should also be possible to claim that that State should not exist. #Antisemitismo #MoniOvadia #LibertàDiEspressione (translated)

“The hatred for the Jew as such, not for what he does, but for what he is.” These are the words spoken into the microphones of Battitori liberi, on Radio Cusano, by Moni Ovadia, who, interviewed by Savino Balzano about the measure under discussion in the Chamber after the Senate's approval, announces that he does not intend to adjust his words to the text if it passes. #Antisemitismo #MoniOvadia #LibertàDiEspressione (translated)

Moni Ovadia defines the bill against anti-Semitism an absolute and obscene farce, promising to continue expressing his opinions regardless of the law, while criticizing the idea that anti-Semitism can be based on actions rather than identity and denouncing the birth of the State of Israel as a colonial operation that ignores the rights of Palestinians. #Antisemitismo #MoniOvadia #LibertàDiEspressione (translated)