{"id":86295,"date":"2024-07-02T21:55:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/meloni-condemns-fascist-nostalgia-amid-scandal-in-her-partys-youth-wing\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T21:55:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:55:09","slug":"meloni-condemns-fascist-nostalgia-amid-scandal-in-her-partys-youth-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/meloni-condemns-fascist-nostalgia-amid-scandal-in-her-partys-youth-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"Meloni Condemns Fascist Nostalgia Amid Scandal in Her Party\u2019s Youth Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/02\/multimedia\/02meloni-youth-1-bhlm\/02meloni-youth-1-bhlm-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Meloni Condemns Fascist Nostalgia Amid Scandal in Her Party\u2019s Youth Wing\" title=\"Meloni Condemns Fascist Nostalgia Amid Scandal in Her Party\u2019s Youth Wing\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Italy\u2019s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, urged leaders of her political party on Tuesday to reject antisemitism, racism and nostalgia for totalitarian regimes after an Italian news outlet caught on a hidden camera members of the youth section of her party glorifying fascism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI am angry and saddened by how we were represented by the behavior of some youth of our movement,\u201d Ms. Meloni wrote in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/fratelli-italia.it\/carissimi-dirigenti-di-fratelli-d-italia?e=7fb3340595\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">an email,<\/a> seen by The New York Times, to directors of her party, Brothers of Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The news report, which came out in two episodes last month, was filmed by a journalist with the Italian news outlet Fanpage.it who pretended to be an activist with National Youth, the youth arm of Brothers of Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The report said the hidden camera showed members of the movement doing fascist salutes, praising the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, instructing others to spread stickers with fascist slogans and defining themselves as fascists. People identified by the report as members of the youth group were filmed while shouting, \u201cSieg heil,\u201d an expression adopted by the Nazis. Other people identified as members of the youth wing were filmed as they made racist and antisemitic comments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The report was a blow to Ms. Meloni, who, despite having roots in a party born from the wreckage of fascism, has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/24\/world\/europe\/italy-election-fascism-meloni.html\" title=\"\">sought to move on from that past<\/a> and vowed to cast herself as a modern, pragmatic leader, saying again and again that fascism belonged to history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But nearly two years into her term, she had to remind her party\u2019s leadership to leave that heritage behind. It showed that the transformation was not complete, and that nostalgia for elements of Italy\u2019s darkest past persists, at least in some parts of a party that grew from being a fringe movement to becoming Italy\u2019s biggest governing force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAt my age, will I have to see this again?\u201d an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/29\/world\/europe\/italy-holocaust-liliana-segre.html\" title=\"\">Italian senator and holocaust survivor<\/a>, Liliana Segre, 93, asked on Italian television after seeing the Fanpage reports. \u201cWill I have to be kicked out of my country like I was once kicked out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lawmakers from the left rose up. Michela Di Biase, a lawmaker with Italy\u2019s Democratic Party, accused Ms. Meloni\u2019s party youth of idealizing those who \u201cstained the history of our country with the blood of persecution.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Meloni and lawmakers from her party criticized the journalist\u2019s methods and said that the news report did not represent the true identity of her party or of its youth movement, but a small minority. Luca Ciriani, a lawmaker with Brothers of Italy, said the report had been built on the basis of fragmented, out-of-context images. Other party members acknowledged and condemned the behavior.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Ms. Meloni also felt the need to speak out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is no room in our ranks for those who play a caricature role that only serves the narrative our opponents want to create about us,\u201d she wrote in the letter. \u201cI and we don\u2019t have time to lose with those who want to make us go backward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She also reminded party leaders that Brothers of Italy adhered to the European Parliament\u2019s 2019 resolution that condemned all dictatorships of the 20th century. It is \u201ca position,\u201d she said, \u201cI have no intention of questioning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two members of the youth section, Elisa Segnini and Flaminia Pace, who were featured in the report, left their official roles after the report emerged but were not expelled from the movement, said Donatella Di Nitto, a spokeswoman for Brothers of Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Segnini left her job working with a lawmaker from the party, and Ms. Pace resigned from her role at the Italian Youth Council, a group that represents young people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Di Nitto said Ms. Segnini and Ms. Pace would not comment. She added that there hadn\u2019t been any other resignations or expulsions, \u201cfor now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/02\/world\/europe\/meloni-political-party-youth-wing-facism.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy\u2019s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, urged leaders of her political party on Tuesday to reject antisemitism, racism and nostalgia for totalitarian regimes after an Italian news outlet caught on a hidden camera members of the youth section of her party glorifying fascism. \u201cI am angry and saddened by how we were represented by the behavior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/02\/multimedia\/02meloni-youth-1-bhlm\/02meloni-youth-1-bhlm-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6502,75306,37415,27345,20761,5543,9761,7058],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86297,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86295\/revisions\/86297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}