“Are you saying Italians are notoriously anti-semitic? And there’s a media conspiracy of silence?”
Not at all. But I am sure, somewhere in Rome we’d find an old facists would be a prick to a Jewish person, just like (if this story is true), they found some old Haredi who don’t like what they deem interlopers.
Point being, you get a paper like Haartz with an agenda, they can write the story they want, then go find some event to shoe-horn into their approved story-line.
“You’re full of it.”
If “it” is sticking to the truth, even when unpopular, I guess I am.
Haartz has an agenda. They go out and find crap to spread that fits their agenda.
It’s an unpleasant but well-known fact that non-Jews are routinely spat upon by Jews in Jerusalem. That is not disputable by reasonable people — though perhaps you are not interested in being reasonable.
It’s in no sense comparable to your theory that in Rome or any other city there might be found isolated cranks given to rude and offensive displays of anti-semitism. The article itself quotes a named Israeli government official to the effect that during Purim some gentiles lock themselves away for fear of assault.
I defy you to make comparable allegations about Jews living in such fear anyplace (outside the Occupied Territories, I mean).
You are evidently willfully blind to certain truths. They exist all the same.