Italian Foreign Policy towards Israel: The Turning Point of the Berlusconi Government (2001––2006)

Marzano, Arturo

doi:10.2979/isr.2011.16.1.79

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“…32 It proved a turning point in Italian foreign policy, moving from a more pro-Palestinian stance to a clearly pro-Israeli one. 33 Lastly, the Lega Nord's support of Israel provided a moral nourishment for the party's growing hostility against Muslim immigrants. 34 Pro-Israeli and Islamophobic sentiments formed part of Italy's cultural and political environment following the September 11 attacks, and the subsequent publication of a number of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim pamphlets.…”

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The Jewish Brigade Group and Italy: A Political and Historiographical Quarrel

Fantoni

2021

The Journal of Modern History

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In recent years, the use and abuse of the past for political ends has emerged as one of history's new frontiers. 2 As historian Nicola Gallerano notes, this occurs when a historiographical thread endeavors to promote a polemical reading of the past, with the aim of advancing a political agenda. 3 This article examines how tendentious or partial interpretations of the past impact on society. It does this by analyzing the emergence, in Italy, of the controversy surrounding the history of the Jewish Brigade Group (JBG). This was a five-thousandstrong British military unit stationed in Italy during World War II. The role played by JBG soldiers in the liberation of the country, largely forgotten by mainstream Italian historiography and by the general public until the late 1990s, was once again put in the spotlight in the early 2000s. This had dramatic repercussions on one of the most sacred Italian civic observances: the 25 April commemoration, which celebrates the liberation from Fascism in 1945, and the subsequent return to democracy. The rediscovery of the JBG's history exacerbated tensions between the Italian Jewish Community and pro-* I would like to offer my special thanks to the following scholars for their valuable and constructive suggestions during the planning and the writing of this article:

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