As one of the dialogue participants, the Italian film director Michela Occhipinti, said the people of Italy know their politicians and media were repeating Israeli’s lies really.
As Katie Halper, the courageous Jewish journalist and talk show host from New York, emphatically observed, everything Israel has told the world “about its founding, its history and its role today is a lie.”
As a matter of fact, Israel’s verifiable lies were once again repeated by his current Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu as he addressed the almost empty United Nations General Assembly last week.
[Also see Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Netanyahu’s Vulgar UN Lies, 26 Sept. 2025]Lubna Speitan, the Greenwich-based Palestinian organizer and an accomplished artist in UK, joined our dialogue and added her rich if painful perspective as a Palestinian in diaspora who lost 56 of her extended family members since the start of the Zionist Israel’s long premeditated genocide.
All genocides are, by definition, premeditated and orchestrated. Emphatically, any student of genocides can tell you that no genocide in history is a response to any immediate trigger.
The 2-year-long and ongoing genocidal destruction of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, is no exception. Palestine’s history did not begin on 7 October 2023.
Israel today is pursuing “Mein Kampf in reverse” in Gaza and Palestine at large, as ex-general and former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaa’lon put it bluntly – and disapprovingly – to a group of his former colleagues who headed Israel’s security forces including intelligence and internal security services, as well as the Israeli Occupation Forces (in Palestine).
(See the 4th of July 2025-dated open letter to US President Donald Trump Jr, urging the US genocidaire-in-chief to help end the “war” against Gazans, endorsed by nearly 600 ex-military commanders).
Hear the following voices of Italians who contributed to the nationwide mobilization on 22 September. For a Free Palestine. And against the genocidal Imperialists of the decaying West.
Michael Leonardi is an activist, writer, educator, and founder of Procida for a Free Palestine, and Tree Water Initiative, Procida, Italy.
Michela Occhipinti is an Italian film director and an active member of Free Citizens for Palestine, Roma, Italy.
Father Pietro Rossini from Emilia-Romagna region who represents the Priests against Genocide.
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A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni, nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, is a member of the TRANSCEND Media Service Editorial Committee, of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center – Cambodia. Zarni is the co-founder of FORSEA, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for Free Rohingya Coalition, and an adviser to the European Centre for the Study of Extremism, Cambridge. Zarni holds a PhD (U Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching, research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education, National-Louis, Malaya, and Brunei. He is the recipient of the “Cultivation of Harmony” award from the Parliament of the World’s Religions (2015). His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the New York Times, The Guardian and the Times. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingyas (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide, (Middle East Institute, American University), and Myanmar’s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, Essays on Myanmar Genocide.