ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “It has not been done to the bottom with anti-Semitism in our country. All school trips to Auschwitz, what were they? Have they been trips? What are they for? In my opinion, they were encouraged and valued, because they actually served the reverse. In other words, we were told that anti-Semitism was something that had once been placed in history, and placed in a precise area: fascism. The trips to Auschwitz in my opinion have been a way of repeating that anti-Semitism was a fascist issue. These are the words spoken by the minister to the Eugenia Roccella Family at a conference of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities in Rome. Phrases that provoked the reaction of all opposition, rebelled against the vision of the minister. Elly Schlein, leader of the PD, addressed premier Giorgia Meloni, so that “it immediately takes the distance from the indecent exit of the ministra Roccella because at all there is a limit, despite this government demonstrates how it is possible to overcome it also by insulting the journeys of memory to Auschwitz and trying to rewrite history”. Magi of More Europe, said that “Mr. Roccella one thinks and one hundred is wrong. Not only does it give an instrumental and provincial reading of Holocaust memory even through school trips in concentration camps, but it seems to want to diminish the role of Nazi fascism that a century ago planned the programmatic extermination of Jews in Europe”. According to Angelo Bonelli of Avs, “The words of the ministra Roccella are disconcerting. They show a total insensitivity to the tragedy that is consumed in Gaza and an absolute indifference in the face of ethnic cleansing carried out by the Netanyahu government against the Palestinian people, which for the UN constitutes a genocide. School trips today we should organize them in Gaza, to show students what a genocide means in the third millennium: children buried under the rubble, bombed hospitals, whole annihilated families.” “To deny the value of Memory is unacceptable: The words of Eugenia Roccella are even more serious because to pronounce it is a minister of the Republic. We make our always wise words of Liliana Segre”. She writes on social media Senator Raffaella Paita, group leader in the Senate of Italy Viva and member of the Secret Commission. “The words of the ministra Roccella are very serious, which manages to deny the indisputable educational value of what she liquidates as “gite” at Auschwitz. Those journeys of education for years serve to tell the horror of the twentieth century, to keep alive the memory of those who have been victim of genocide by the Nazi regime. Does Roccella want to rewrite history?”. M5S Congressman Annalaura Orrico says so. (ITALPRESS).
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