Italians Sing Antifascist Anthem ‘Bella Ciao’ at Israeli Military Checkpoint in Hebron, West Bank

Italians Sing Antifascist Anthem ‘Bella Ciao’ at Israeli Military Checkpoint in Hebron, West Bank




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38 Comments

  1. Jews need to speak up against the genocide, apartheid and occupation. Zionists are using holocaust sympathy to cover the Palestinians genocide, apartheid and occupation. Jews, the true jews need to wake up, resist, make your voices heard because Zionists are doing all this in your name.

  2. This display disgusted me. Their arrogance and lack of self-awareness were astounding. They failed to grasp the irony of the situation. Jews have lived in Israel for over 3,500 years, and Hebron is the burial place of our ancestors. These Italians come from a country that invaded Israel 2,000 years ago, expelled the Jews, and renamed the land Palestine. Additionally, they are representatives of Christianity, a religion whose institutions historically spread antisemitism.

    They visit our land, now that we have returned, and stand by a checkpoint that only exists because of Arab terrorist attacks. They come from Rome, a city that displays images on the Arch of Titus depicting the Romans carrying away Jewish belongings from our homeland. And they have the audacity to sing a fascist song, when the very concept of fascism was pioneered by Mussolini, who influenced Hitler. They accuse us of the very things their ancestors did.

  3. The funniest part of this video is the ignorance of the people singing and the comments, all believing they are doing a provoking act against Israel.

    The Italian song "Bella ciao" does not appear in any collection of partisan songs before 1963, which means that rather than being a song used by the anti-fascist resistance, among which stood out numerous Jewish personalities to the point of constituting almost the majority during the Second World War, it was instead a song used by that left-wing movement called Red Brigades that in the following decade began to set fire to universities, place bombs under cars and assassinate great personalities of the political and economic world of Italy in the 70s, among which we must remember the terrible assassination of Aldo Moro in '78.

    The song was composed by Fausto Giovannardi in 2003 from a Yiddish melody recorded by a Klezmer accordionist of Ukrainian origins, Mishka Ziganoff, in 1919 in New York.

    "Bella ciao" is therefore a song that is meant to represent the Jewish and non-Jewish resistance of the Second World War, but in reality it was written in the context of the violence and terrorism of the Red Brigades, but it has rediscovered its strong Jewish component with the musical arrangement with which it became famous throughout the world from a melody of Jewish origins written by a Jewish author probably from Ukraine or Russia.

    Good luck with your madness made of ignorance and hatred. The Israelis know that song both for the Jewish melody and because those of Italian origin were the forerunners of the anti-fascist movement in Italy during the Second World War. The Italian patriot is inextricably Jewish and tied to the events of Israel. Anyone who denies this is ignorant and foments terrorism of communist origin, in addition to any other type of terrorism, including that of Palestinians and Hamas. I am Italian and I dissociate myself from this crazy, ridiculous and stupid hypocrisy, as well as a great act of disrespect for a country that has welcomed you even though is quite likely that their fathers or grandfathers were fascists and fought in the Italian army on behalf of Mussolini and Hitler actively participating in the Holocaust.

  4. How is israel an ”apartheid” or ”fascist state” by having military checkpoints for a good reason. These leftards dont understand its for their own safety.

    The left is so authoritarian and big government but at the same time they dont want security for their citizens