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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

Benito Mussolini

This picture taken from a publicly distributed police video shows some of the items recovered in the homes of 24 people investigated for apology of Fascism in Ferrara, northern Italy, February 14, 2024. (Italian Police via AP)
February 15, 2024, 1:04 pm
Hailing Hitler, mocking Anne Frank: Italy probes 24 over racist event in Jewish area
Investigator says suspects being investigated for promoting fascism; they threatened to kill other diners, refused to stop even after police arrived, insulted Black Italian athlete
By AP and ToI Staff
People appear to give the banned fascist salute during a rally to commemorate the 1978 murder of two members of a neo-fascist youth group, in Rome, January 7, 2024. (Screen capture: X. Used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 10, 2024, 4:59 pm
Italian opposition demands probe after hundreds give fascist salute at Rome rally
Illicit Mussolini homage provokes ire from detractors of far-right government, inspires worry in Jewish community; minister criticizes action, resists calls to ban group
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Harlan Crow attends a book release reception by The George W. Bush Institute for 'The 4 Percent Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs,' on July 17, 2012, in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
April 9, 2023, 11:20 am
US Supreme Court judge’s megadonor friend said to own pieces of Nazi memorabilia
Harlan Crow, who reportedly gave lavish gifts to Justice Clarence Thomas, reportedly owns signed ‘Mein Kampf’ and Hitler paintings, as well as garden statues of Mussolini, Stalin
By Ash Obel and AP
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, right, leaves after an EU summit in Brussels, March 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, Pool)
March 24, 2023, 10:32 pm
Italian opposition criticizes Meloni over Nazi massacre comments
After Italy’s PM, whose party has neo-fascist roots, says Nazis killed 335 ‘because they were Italian,’ opponents lash her for ignoring that victims were antifascists, Jews
By Nicole Winfield
Italian Senate President Ignazio La Russa talks to Senators ahead of a confidence vote on the new Government, in Rome, Oct. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
December 29, 2022, 10:54 am
Italian Jewish leaders slam parliament president for honoring neo-fascist party
Ignazio La Russa, co-founder of Prime Minister Meloni’s FDI party, posts on Instagram linking his father’s far-right faction to the anniversary of Italy’s post-WWII constitution
By David I. Klein
A giant banner unfurled by Lazio fans, reading 'my love will not die' is displayed in a tribune prior to the Italian Serie A football match between AS Rome and Lazio on November 6, 2022 at the Olympic stadium in Rome. (Tiziana FABI / AFP)
November 8, 2022, 3:36 pm
Italian soccer officials investigate antisemitic chants by Lazio fans
Team condemns ‘antisemitism and racism which happen in almost every match at every stadium in Italy’; Mussolini’s great-grandson plays for club
By AFP
People march in the hometown of former dictator Benito Mussolini to mark the 100th anniversary of the coup d'etat by which he sized power in 1922, in Predappio, Italy, on October 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
October 30, 2022, 8:25 pm
Thousands of Italian fascist sympathizers stage rally in memory of Mussolini
Rome’s failure to fully come to terms with its past has never been more stark, as new PM Meloni seeks to distance her far-right Brothers of Italy party from its neo-fascist roots
By Colleen Barry
People gather during a march organized by the anti-fascist Italian Partisans association in Mussolini's birthplace Predappio, Italy, Oct. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
October 29, 2022, 3:08 am
Anti-fascists march in Mussolini’s birthplace as his supporters rally in Rome
Dueling events highlight Italy’s uneasy reckoning with its past as new Prime Minister Meloni takes helm of 1st postwar government led by a party with neo-fascist roots
By Paolo Santalucia and Luca Bruno
Posters commemorating the 100th anniversary of the March on Rome bearing a picture of Italian Fascist Dictator Benito Mussolini reading: "Marching!" with a quote by Mussolini "you have to set yourself goals to have the courage to reach them" are posted on the Rome's public billboard space, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. The posters were later ordered removed by Rome's Mayor Roberto Gualtieri. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
October 28, 2022, 5:33 pm
Italian neo-fascists display pro-Mussolini banner 100 years after his rise to power
On bridge outside Rome’s Colosseum, supporters of fascist leader drape image depicting dictator in military uniform, with the words ‘100 years after, the march continues’
By ToI Staff and AFP
Far-Right party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni speaks to the media at her party's electoral headquarters in Rome, early September 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
October 27, 2022, 12:29 pm
Italy’s unresolved fascist past in spotlight as far-right government takes power
Unlike Germany, Italy never underwent process of erasing fascist symbols after World War II; even PM Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party retains flame emblem used by Mussolini
By Colleen Barry
Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni, flanked by Coldiretti Ettore Prandini, left, prepares to speak during an Italian farmers association event, at the Sforzesco Castle in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
October 1, 2022, 10:59 am
Italian Jews worry and wait as far-right leader Meloni prepares to take power
Some members of Jewish community are willing to overlook the fact that far-right leaders are ‘intrinsically fascist,’ focusing instead on their championing of Israel, says writer
By Simone Somekh
Italian election frontrunner Giorgia Meloni speak during a campaign rally on September 20, 2022 in Palermo, Sicily.(Igor Petyx/ANSA/AFP)
September 26, 2022, 10:09 pm
Italy’s Meloni portrays herself as strong supporter of Israel, rejects fascist past
Brothers of Italy leader has highlighted ties to Likud party; Israel, which has boycotted other European far-right leaders, yet to react to election results
By ToI Staff
Leader of Italian far-right party 'Fratelli d'Italia' (Brothers of Italy), Giorgia Meloni speaks at her party's campaign headquarters overnight on September 26, 2022, in Rome, after the country voted in a legislative election. Meloni is on course to take power in the heart of Europe. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
September 26, 2022, 5:07 pm
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni: From teen activist who praised Mussolini to brink of power
Likely new PM’s party uses the same flame on its logo as the neo-fascist, post-war MSI, but she says the flame has ‘nothing to do with fascism’
By Alice Ritchie and Gaël BRANCHEREAU
Right-wing party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni, center-right on stage, addresses a rally as she starts her political campaign ahead of September 25 general elections, in Ancona, Italy, August 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)
September 26, 2022, 4:42 pm
How a fringe far-right group with neo-fascist roots became Italy’s biggest party
Leader of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, is poised to head Italy’s first far-right-led government since Mussolini during World War II
By Nicole Winfield
Brothers of Italy's Giorgia Meloni attends a media event for center-right leaders in Rome, on March 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
August 10, 2022, 7:42 pm
Italian far-right leader rejects links to Fascism, touts ‘shared values’ with Likud
Giorgia Meloni, whose party currently leads in opinion polls, insists that Italian conservatives have abandoned Mussolini’s ideology
By Agencies
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