Mussolini

Italian neo-fascists salute Mussolini for execution anniversary

The association claimed that over a hundred participants attended the ceremony.

 Neo-Nazi gathering in Dongo, Italy
 ITALIAN DICTATOR Benito Mussolini surveys the new Caselle Airport during a visit to Turin, May 1939.

Mussolini's Jews: How Il Duce bewitched Italy's Jewish communities

 Romano Floriani Mussolini, the great-grandson of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, warms up before the Serie A soccer match in Verona, October 24, 2021.

Great-grandson of Mussolini scores first goal for Juve Stabia, fans celebrate with fascist salute

 Leader of Brothers of Italy Giorgia Meloni holds a sign at the party's election night headquarters, in Rome, Italy September 26, 2022.

Italy's Meloni honors Jewish journalists from fascist era


The Italian fascist renaissance -opinion

Italy has long captured the imagination of those in search of la dolce vita and a sepia-tinged version of simpler times.

 Leader of Brothers of Italy Giorgia Meloni holds a sign at the party's election night headquarters, in Rome, Italy September 26, 2022.

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls David Cicilline ‘Rep. Mussolini’

“I’m an Italian and a Jew,” Cicilline shot back on Twitter.

REPUBLICAN CONGRESSWOMAN Marjorie Taylor Greene walks through the Capitol as Democrats debate an article of impeachment against then-president Donald Trump on January 13.

Italian judge orders seizure of Hezbollah-linked neo-fascist CasaPound HQ

One recording from a group meeting in 2013 caught a speaker proposing “to beat and rape a student whose only ‘guilt’ is to be Jewish,” stated the news site leggo.it.

A member of Casapound far-right organization wears a mask in the colours of the Italian flag before a demonstration in Rome

Benito Mussolini saved my life

Even when powered by persistence, sometimes survival can hang by a thread – and a dictator can swoop in to save you

 ‘Our life was soon greatly changed’: German troops enter Prague in 1939.

Italian politician attacked by youths in Venice shouting about Anne Frank

Former member of parliament Arturo Scotto was punched in the face by the youths, even though he's not Jewish.

Venice, Italy

Three Rome streets, once named for antisemites, rededicated to Jews

The streets of the Italian capital previously carried the names of psychiatrist Arturo Donaggi and Edoardo Zavattari, a biologist who promoted the idea of scientific racism.

Three streets in Rome named after Italian scientists who signed the antisemitic Manifesto della Razza in 1938 have been rededicated to two pioneer Jewish female scholars and an anti-fascist professor on November 21, 2019..

The pen and the sword

The age of the dictator has not passed, alas, and demagogues are having their day.

A COPY of the book ‘Hitler, Mein Kampf. A Critical Edition’ lies on a display table in a bookshop in Munich in 2016

Charlottesville and Cable Street – the essential difference

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