Italian professor urges ‘unfriend your Jewish “friends” on Facebook, even the “good” ones’

The University of Palermo in Sicily has distanced itself from remarks made by law professor Lucca Nivarra, urging social media users to “unfriend” all Jews on Facebook to protest Israel’s actions in Gaza. In a Facebook post, Nivarra urged users to “unfriend your Jewish ‘friends’ on Facebook, even the ‘good’ ones,” arguing that even Jews who criticise Israel were complicit in “covering up the horror” of what he described as a “Palestinian Holocaust.” “It’s a small, tiny thing,” he wrote, “but let’s start making them feel alone, face to face with the monstrosity to which they are complicit.” Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano quoted the University’s rector Massimo Midiri calling Professor Luca Nivarra’s remarks “culturally dangerous.”
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