A furore has erupted after a convention on Israel scheduled to take place at Milan's Statale University on May 7, seven months after Hamas's October 7 attacks, was scrapped following a police warning about the danger of violent incidents. (ANSA)
A prominent member of the Milan Jewish community on Monday said he was leaving the centre-left opposition Democratic Party (PD) over the use by some PD fringe groups of the term "genocide" to describe the Israeli campaign against Hamas in Gaza. (ANSA)
A piece of antisemitic graffiti appeared Thursday afternoon on a wall near the synagogue in Milan, saying 'Out of Gaza, Jews dung", reported centre-left Democratic Party (PD) councillor Daniele Nahum, a member of the Jewish community, in the city council. (ANSA)