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Fiamma Nirenstein

Fiamma Nirenstein

Fiamma Nirenstein is an Italian-Israeli journalist, author and senior research fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA). An adviser on antisemitism to Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she served in the Italian Parliament (2008-2013) as vice president of the Foreign Affairs Committee. A founding member of the Friends of Israel Initiative, she has written 15 books, including October 7, Antisemitism and the War on the West, and is a leading voice on Israel, the Middle East, Europe and the fight against antisemitism.

Europe is in the throes of extreme Jew-hatred and anti-Semitism, brought on by economic crises, societal unrest and a wave of immigration accompanied by Islamist propaganda.
It’s time to stop talking about “lone wolves”; this boils down to Palestinian incitement.
But even if he now seems no longer to able to provide any hope for the future, it’s not discussions of his successor and change that lay on the horizon, but chaos.
Since the 2007 civil war, Fatah and Hamas have shot, imprisoned, tortured and sentenced each other to death.
Israel must monitor the neo-Nazis in order to ensure that they never again propagate hate. But the Poles don’t seem to belong in the same category, and Israel did well to reserve judgment because of that.