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Hamas linked to left-wing parties behind anti-Israel protests in Italy, investigation shows Series of investigations in Italy reveals senior figures within Italian left maintain ongoing contact with Hamas member [Mohammad] Hannoun and his associates, and are actively promoting policies against Israel

August 27, 2025 Daniel Bettini

(Ynet) Italy is considered a favorite destination for Israelis. Over the years, the two countries have also maintained relatively warm relations. However, in recent months, with the prolongation of the war and the shift in European public opinion regarding it, all of […]

Italian court acquits Matteo Salvini in migrant ‘kidnapping’ case The far-right former interior minister prevented more than 140 migrants, including kids, from coming ashore in Italy.

December 20, 2024 Elena Giordano

(Politico) Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini was acquitted Friday on kidnapping charges over his decision in 2019 to block a migrant rescue ship carrying more than 140 people from coming ashore in Italy. Salvini, who was serving as Italy’s interior minister […]

Row after two Muslim students exempted from studying Dante Parties slam 'crazy' move, 'insult to our culture'

May 24, 2024 Unlisted Author

(ANSA) A middle school teacher in the northern city of Treviso has exempted two Muslim students from studying Dante on the grounds that it is a religious work that clashes with their Islamic faith, local dailies reported Friday, sparking a major row […]

Italian PM admits she hoped to do ‘better’ on migration

September 24, 2023 Alice Ritchie

(AFP) Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has admitted she had hoped to do “better” on controlling irregular migration, which has surged since her far-right party won historic elections a year ago. “Clearly we hoped for better on immigration, where we worked so […]

Italy minister shocks with ‘ethnic replacement’ warning

April 18, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Italian minister Francesco Lollobrigida, one of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s closest allies, sparked outrage Tuesday by warning against the “ethnic replacement” of Italians by migrants. “We cannot resign ourselves to the idea of ethnic replacement: Italians have fewer children, so let’s […]

FB, Instagram, Twitter remove migrant rape video Meloni sparked row by re-posting footage, vowing crime fight

August 23, 2022 Unlisted Author

(ANSA) Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter on Tuesday removed a video of a Guinean asylum seeker raping a Ukrainian woman in Piacenza Monday, which had been controversially re-posted by conservative leader Giorgia Meloni in a post vowing to boost law and order in […]

Italy’s Meloni shocks opponents with alleged rape video

August 22, 2022 Colleen Barry

(AP) The far-right candidate who aspires to be Italy’s first female leader came under fire Monday from opponents for posting a pixelized video that purports to show a woman being raped by an asylum-seeker. Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the Brothers of […]

Gere belongs in cinema, not as migrant witness: ex-Italian minister

September 26, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Plans for actor Richard Gere to testify against former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini for abuse of migrants threaten to turn the case into a show trial, the far-right leader said on Sunday. Gere — a Hollywood star known as a […]

Row after League security councillor kills immigrant Cops say man fired after being pushed, League says self-defence

July 21, 2021 Unlisted Author

(ANSA) A row ensued Wednesday after a public safety and security councillor for the rightwing [anti]-migrant League party in the northern city of Voghera, Massimo Adriatici, was arrested on suspicion of shooting and killing an illegal Moroccan immigrant after an argument outside […]

Italy hopeful on reviving EU migrant burden-sharing deal

May 12, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Italy is pushing EU partners to revive migrant burden-sharing deals as it seeks to stave off a summertime surge in landings from North Africa, Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Wednesday. Migration has returned to the top of the political agenda in […]

Migrant arrivals by sea on Italian island swell past 2,100

May 10, 2021 Frances D'Emilio

(AP) Several hundred more migrants reached a tiny Italian island before dawn on Monday, swelling to past 2,100 the number of arrivals in around 24 hours and fueling calls from across the political spectrum for the Italian government to strengthen its migration […]

Pressure grows on Italy to abolish migrant quarantine ships Italy has isolated thousands of asylum seekers on ferries over the course of the pandemic.

January 7, 2021 Stefania D'Ignoti

(Politico) Rome is facing pressure to abolish its offshore quarantine system for migrants and refugees following a series of alarming incidents, including several deaths, over the past year. Since May, the Italian government has isolated asylum seekers on ships after they arrive, […]

Italy loosens migration rules to dismay of hardliner Salvini

October 6, 2020 Angelo Amante

(Reuters) Italy has softened rules penalising aid groups that bring illegal migrants ashore and extended protection for refugees who risk persecution at home, drawing the fire of former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini who set the tough measures. Rescue boats which violate official […]

New wave of boat migrants overwhelms southern Italian island

July 24, 2020 Mauro Buccarello

(Reuters) About 100 migrants who crossed the Mediterranean in small boats landed on the southern island of Lampedusa during the night, the latest in a wave of arrivals straining an already overcrowded holding centre. Officials said the migrants, arriving from Libya, were […]

Italy Senate panel votes down Salvini probe over stranded migrants

May 26, 2020 Angelo Amante

(Reuters) An Italian Senate committee on Tuesday rejected a request by magistrates to investigate Matteo Salvini, head of the rightwing League party, for refusing a migrant rescue boat permission to land last year when he was interior minister. Salvini refused to allow […]

Italy: Birthrates at historic lows, migrants approach nine per cent of population

December 31, 2019 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) According to new figures, Italy has seen a historically low birthrate in 2018, as the number of foreigners in the country has increased to nearly 9 per cent of the total population. The new statistics, released by the Italian statistics agency Istat, […]

No refugee ‘invasion,’ Italy’s new interior minister says

November 1, 2019 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Italy’s new Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said in an interview published Friday that there was no migrant “invasion,” countering statements by her hardline anti-immigration predecessor Matteo Salvini. Lamorgese told the Repubblica newspaper that this year 9,600 migrants and asylum-seekers had arrived […]

Italy and France agree migrants must be distributed around the EU

September 18, 2019 Crispian Balmer

(Reuters) The European Union must introduce a new, automatic system of taking in migrants saved from the Mediterranean, the leaders of Italy and France said on Wednesday, as they sought to patch up bruised bilateral relations. Italy has long complained that it […]

New Italy government lets rescued migrants disembark

September 14, 2019 Charles Onians

(AFP) Italy on Saturday allowed rescue ship Ocean Viking to disembark 82 migrants on Lampedusa, in a reversal of the hardline policy under the country’s ex-interior minister Matteo Salvini. Far-right leader Salvini was forced out of office last month after bringing the […]

Think-tank: Half of Italians could be Muslims by year 2100

September 12, 2019 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) An Italian think-tank has predicted that due to mass migration and differing birthrates, half of all Italians could be Muslims by the end of the century. The FareFuturo foundation released its findings this week as part of their “First report on […]

Italy coalition talks back on, but migration a sore point

August 31, 2019 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Talks between Italy’s anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party resumed on Saturday after a quarrel that had threatened to stop the nascent coalition in its tracks. Tensions remained however on the hot-button issue of migration, a highly emotive subject […]