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22. As ugly as that graffiti is, it pales compared to racism in the States

There are racist extremist groups in all countries and probably always will be, unfortunately. Italy is no exemption. TMK, there has been no violence in this regard, and there is no institutional racism in the police forces. The RCC, of which I am no great fan, is not racist. I have many Jewish Italian friends who are not living in any kind of fear.

Italian Jews tend to be as divided on the I/P issue as American Jews. We spent time last week with some Israeli friends who have house here. They returned to Tel Aviv on Friday, the day Hamas warned people not to fly to Tel Aviv. They were unconcerned. Jews have been threatened and insulted for millennia. It's something they have learned to be philosophical about. Personally, I'd rather be a Jew in Italy than just about anywhere else in the world, especially Israel. But I'm not a Jew.