Italian police are investigating an anti-Semitic blog listing the names of more than 150 “Jewish university professors”, which was removed from the Internet after protests from politicians and Jewish leaders.
Rome’s Mayor Walter Veltroni was among those slamming the blog. “Any attempt to give a platform to anti-Semitism should concern us and draw a response,” he was quoted as saying by Italian newspaper la repubblica.
Veltroni added that the “Jewish community was right” to protest the blog’s publication, and stressed that the proper response should be “immediate condemnation and struggle.”
“The list of Jewish lecturers reminds us of the racist 1938 laws, yet anyone who seeks to retake the anti-Semitic path will encounter the resistance of Italians,” he said. “This act is particularly grave because it took place in the world of academia and research, where the rejection of discrimination and hatred should be even stronger.”
The blog, by an anonymous author, listed the names and workplaces of university professors who it accused of “publicly and politically” supporting Israel.
It was taken down in the early afternoon on Friday.
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www.ynetnews.com
Date: February 8, 2008
By Nir Magal and Reuters
