Italy shuts down effort linked to Gaza flotilla group to track Jewish, Israeli tourists

Italian authorities shut down an anonymous online effort that asked the public to report the locations of Israeli tourists, Italian Jews and businesses believed to have ties to Zionism, drawing condemnation from senior government officials and Jewish leaders who compared the initiative to fascist-era persecution."I think we’re going back to the 1930s, to hunting Jews," Walker Meghnagi, president of the Jewish Community of Milan, said after the Google form began circulating on social media and messaging platforms.The questionnaire said it was intended to "map Zionist tourism," property purchases and what it described as "Zionist neo-colonization" in Italy, according to reports.It asked users to identify Jews, Israelis and people believed to be connected to Zionism at hotels, vacation rentals, businesses and other public places.ISRAEL, JEWS TARGETED WORLDWIDE AS WELL-FUNDED LEFTIST, ISLAMIST GROUPS JOIN FOR ‘NAKBA 78’ PROTESTSPeople take part in a flash mob entitled "In the same boat" to protest the detention and treatment of activists participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla in Milan, northern Italy, on May 21, 2026.

(AFP via Getty Images)"The online mapping of so-called 'Zionist tourism,' rightly denounced by the president of the Jewish Community of Milan, Walker Meghnagi, is an aberrant initiative, in direct violation of fundamental human rights and the constitutional principles on which our nation is founded," Italian Senate President Ignazio La Russa wrote in a statement, as translated to English."No form of cataloguing of persons on the basis of their religious belief or their connection with Israel is acceptable or justifiable.Behind all this lies a profound anti-Semitism that must be unanimously, firmly, and determinedly rejected," he added.

"We cannot remain motionless in the face of such serious facts that recall the ghosts of the past.To the Jewish Community all my closeness."The form was removed following the intervention of Gen.

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