{"id":304068,"date":"2025-10-06T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=304068"},"modified":"2025-10-02T02:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T01:41:07","slug":"for-a-free-palestine-against-us-israel-empire-italian-voices-from-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/10\/for-a-free-palestine-against-us-israel-empire-italian-voices-from-below\/","title":{"rendered":"For a Free Palestine, against US-Israel Empire: Italian Voices from Below"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Hear some of the voices of Italians who contributed to the nationwide mobilization on 22 September 2025 for a Free Palestine, and against the genocidal Imperialists of the decaying West.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_304069\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Italy-protest-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304069\" class=\"wp-image-304069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Italy-protest-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide-1024x549.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Italy-protest-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide-1024x549.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Italy-protest-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Italy-protest-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide-768x412.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Italy-protest-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-304069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Italians protest against genocide in Gaza, Sep 2025.\u00a0 Zarni &#8211; FORSEA<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>29 Sep 2025\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; On 26 September, FORSEA hosted a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forsea.co\/forsea-dialogue-on-democratic-struggles-series-italian-people-rising-for-gaza\/\" >YouTube Dialogue<\/a> on democratic struggles with a group of Italian organizers for a Free Palestine who, from the streets and squares of over 100 towns and cities across Italy, screamed truth to power, the Far Right regime of Meloni. In the 60-minutes dialogue they drove home the message that the Italian regime is fork-tongued and complicit in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QRjEMbHXM4Q\" >Israel\u2019s daily livestreamed genocide in Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>As one of the dialogue participants, the Italian film director Michela Occhipinti, said the people of Italy<em> know<\/em> their politicians and media were repeating Israeli\u2019s lies really.<\/p>\n<p>As <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jwsKBBFG728&amp;t=5s\" >Katie Halper<\/a>, the courageous Jewish journalist and talk show host from New York, emphatically observed, everything Israel has told the world \u201cabout its founding, its history and its role today is a lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/27\/fact-check-israeli-prime-minister-netanyahus-speech-at-unga\" >Israel\u2019s verifiable lies<\/a> were once again repeated by his current Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu as he addressed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/un-general-assembly-2025-diplomats-walk-out-protest-israel-netanyahu\" >the almost empty United Nations General Assembly<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>[Also see Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zuDzg_i6ld0\" >Netanyahu\u2019s Vulgar UN Lies<\/a>, 26 Sept. 2025]<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lubnaspeitan.com\/\" >Lubna Speitan<\/a>, 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\u2019s long premeditated genocide.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fitvid\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\" lazyloaded\" title=\"Lubna Speitan: We cannot give up. I will not give up until my last breath.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_f36rnWOjmc?rel=0\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_f36rnWOjmc?rel=0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The 2-year-long and ongoing genocidal destruction of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, is no exception. Palestine\u2019s history did not begin on 7 October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Israel today is pursuing \u201cMein Kampf in reverse\u201d in Gaza and Palestine at large, as ex-general and former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaa\u2019lon put it bluntly \u2013 and disapprovingly \u2013 to a group of his former colleagues who headed Israel\u2019s security forces including intelligence and internal security services, as well as the Israeli Occupation Forces (in Palestine).<\/p>\n<p>(See <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/static-cdn.toi-media.com\/www\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2TRUMPJULY2025.pdf\" >the 4th of July 2025-dated open letter to US President Donald Trump Jr<\/a>, urging the US genocidaire-in-chief to help end the \u201cwar\u201d against Gazans, endorsed by nearly 600 ex-military commanders).<\/p>\n<p>Hear the following voices of Italians who contributed to the nationwide mobilization on 22 September.\u00a0 For a Free Palestine. And against the genocidal Imperialists of the decaying West.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2025\/09\/26\/we-are-all-sumud-italy-rises-for-gaza\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNGCpVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhAhZC3j8wVcVnyWdNxNq40YyKGlSWdt45yifZ6j3rSemeFfApRXDRgOl2bt_aem_c38RPjGj6w66YeFoQ3xCIg\" >Michael Leonardi<\/a> is an activist, writer, educator, and founder of Procida for a Free Palestine, and Tree Water Initiative, Procida, Italy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fitvid\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-PztuQ-i5xc<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/directedbywomen.com\/michela-occhipintis-unique-stories\/\" >Michela Occhipinti<\/a> is an Italian film director and an active member of Free Citizens for Palestine, Roma, Italy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fitvid\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gp1UAi1zufw<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g2JYqxyVSPA\" >Father Pietro Rossini<\/a> from Emilia-Romagna region who represents <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/zenit.org\/2025\/09\/22\/one-cardinal-11-bishops-and-over-a-thousand-priests-launch-initiative-against-genocide-in-gaza\/\" >the Priests against Genocide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fitvid\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\" lazyloaded\" title=\"A YouTube video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1jxGdADI2L8?modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1jxGdADI2L8?modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>___________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/maung-zarni2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-120960 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/maung-zarni2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni, nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Media Service<\/em><\/a><em> Editorial Committee, of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><em>, 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 \u2013 Cambodia.\u00a0Zarni is the co-founder of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/forsea.co\/\" >FORSEA<\/a><em>, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for <\/em>Free Rohingya Coalition,<em> and an adviser to the <\/em>European Centre for the Study of Extremism<em>, Cambridge<strong>. <\/strong>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 &#8220;Cultivation of Harmony&#8221; award from the Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions (2015). His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the <\/em>New York Times, The Guardian <em>and<\/em> the Times<em>. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are <\/em>The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingyas<em> (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), <\/em>An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide<em>, (Middle East Institute, American University), and <\/em>Myanmar\u2019s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims<em> (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, <\/em>Essays on Myanmar Genocide.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forsea.co\/for-a-free-palestine-against-us-israel-empire-italian-voices-from-below\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; forsea.co<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear some of the voices of Italians who contributed to the nationwide mobilization on 22 Sep 2025 for a Free Palestine, and against the genocidal Imperialists of the decaying West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":120960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[229,3287,3143,2642,2394,609,1268,87,865,88,2010,427,3442],"class_list":["post-304068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-activism","tag-anti-zionism","tag-anti-hegemony","tag-anti-imperialism","tag-civil-resistance","tag-demonstrations","tag-european-union","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-italy","tag-palestine","tag-protest-movements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304074,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304068\/revisions\/304074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}