At this year’s annual April 25 march commemorating the liberation of Italy from nαzι-Fascism,
In other words, a march akin to a
U.S. Veterans' Day parade, but one in which
Italians honor the
Italians who liberated their own country near the end of World War II? Maybe--but only
maybe--including U.S., British, or Canadian veterans who participated in the liberation of
Italy, as survivors of battles like Anzio.
Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists gathered near the Colosseum to participate, as they have every year, bringing the voice of Palestine to this celebration of resistance against oppression.
What's the reason for this
totally out-of-place participation by people promoting their own
entirely foreign agenda, in a march held to honor
Italians? What did
any "Palestinians"
ever do to accomplish "the liberation of
Italy from nαzι-Fascism"?
Westbrook's words reek of
propaganda attempting to change the meaning of the parade to something that the
Italian majority would never intend it to become. Is it the modern
cowardice displayed by the
nations of Europe when confronted by their aggressive Muslim minorities? Or is it the longer-established influence of their Communist Party or
Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades)?
Despite a prior agreement with ANPI, the Italian Partisans Association, organizers of the march, for the participation of Palestine solidarity activists, ANPI, shamefully, chose to concede to the demands of the pro-Israel fanatics, who refused to allow the march to begin with Palestinian flags present.
Well, (
expletives deleted)!
Someone in Rome ought to have refused to allow the march to begin under those circuмstances. The
real shame was earned by the ANPI for allowing an
Italian national celebration to be used & abused for the
foreign agenda of "Palestinians".
How should we in the U.S.A. react if, e.g., Vietnam Veterans Against the War, or some leftist chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, allowed
Soviets veterans to march, as "our loyal allies", in a Veterans' Day parade, carrying Soviet Union flags, or banners depicting Marx, Lenin, and Stalin, to "celebrate resistance against oppression" (of course, only the oppression by the tsars & nαzιs, not by Soviet rulers)? How about North Vietnamese veterans carrying their flag and banners flaunting Ho Chi Minh or Gen. Giap?
And no, no Israeli flags should be allowed in the march in Rome, either.
One of the consequences of
modernist liberalism is that there's no longer any such thing as
circuмstances under which an act that's "politically correct" can be rejected--or even criticized--as
plainly inappropriate.