Antisemitic flyer appears in Livorno after city council adopts International Definition of Antisemitism

An antisemitic flyer was found on a street named in honour of Jewish victims of Nazism, in the Italian city of Livorno.

Shortly before the flyer appeared, the city council had adopted the International Definition of Antisemitism.

Above a hand clutching a cross, invoking the oldest and most persistent antisemitic trope, the flyer reads: “Via dei Palestinesi Vittime dei Sionismo Guidaico,” or “Street of Palestinian Victims of Jewish Zionism.”

The adoption by the north Italian city of the Definition was in response to a call by the President of the Italy-Israel Association after a Palestinian Authority flag appeared at the tomb of Mussolini’s wartime Foreign Minister and son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano, as well as a separate incident in which port authorities and workers tried to prevent a ship setting sail for the Israeli port of Ashdod.

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