Posted on 10/03/2025 5:30:41 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
More than 2 million people across Italy rallied in over 100 cities Friday for a one-day general strike to support the residents of Gaza and a humanitarian aid mission, Italy’s largest union said.
Italian unions proclaimed the strike after the Global Sumud Flotilla that was trying to break Israel’s naval blockade to deliver aid to Gaza was intercepted by Israeli naval forces Wednesday night. Protests and demonstrations have sprung up all over Europe and globally since then, but they have been particularly strong in Italy.
Italy’s conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had sharply criticized the strike. She anticipated it would cause widespread disruption across the country and said it was politically motivated and targeted her right-wing government.
According to the CGIL union, 300,000 people marched through the streets of Rome alone, while the national average participation in the general strike stood at around 60%, halting all the main services in key sectors including transportation and schools.
In Florence, protesters approached the gates of the Italian national soccer team’s training center to demand its upcoming World Cup qualifier against Israel not be played because of the war in Gaza.
Italy is scheduled to host Israel in Udine on Oct. 14. But UEFA is considering suspending Israel over the war. The players were not at the Coverciano training center in Florence, but the squad will convene there on Monday.
Protesters appeared to behave peacefully on the opposite side of the street from the soccer complex, holding aloft a banner that read in Italian, “Let’s stop Zionism with the resistance.”
On Friday morning, around 100,000 people participated in a rally in the northern city of Milan. Clashes there briefly erupted after a group of protesters blocking the city’s highway started throwing bottles at police, who responded with smoke bombs.
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that’s what they get for importing so many muslim hordes. Of course even here on FR there are plenty of muzzie fellators pretending to take a principled stand against that mean old state of Israel
“Stop Zionism”
Where, exactly, pray tell, should the Jews go and be safe except in their G-d given original indigenous holy land?
Are the Jews obligated to be permanently stateless in favor of arabs who invaded and displaced them (with others along the way) merely 800 years ago?
You f’ers are nuts. I’ll personally go and pick up a rifle to make sure to prove you wrong.
Long time no see.
Good to be on the same side.
Two million Italians rallying for Gaza? Color me skeptical.
FOOLS!!
it’s the same playbook Satan used to take Alexandria and all of Egypt, Constantinople and all of the Eastern Roman Empire, Andalusia and the Iberian Peninsula, Damascus and all of Syria,then Jerusalem and all of the land of Israel. The Czars, the Spaniards, then the Poles, Austrians, Hungarians, and Greeks ended it in their lands.
The Men of the West must find their Heros and Saints to win this for good.
(the Book of Revelations aka Apacolypse says We Win in the end but its not pretty)
There are 2 million Muslims living in Italy. My guess is that Muslims made up a majority of those protesting. Islam is a terrorist organization. Sane nations will acknowledge what history and headlines have shown us for 1400 years. The Popes & Western Europe that fought the anti-Christian and murderous Muslims had it right! “For those who fail to learn from history ...”lol
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From the pictures I've seen, no. Most people "protesting" are members of the Left just like here in USA.
Rallying for their own destruction, amazing
Europe will have to deport the Muslims to safe themselves or it’s over. Ti e is short.
Maybe Italy can lop off a chunk of land for a Palestinian state.
The Left is the hand. Islam is the knife.
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