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The Jewish Brigade fought fascism in Italy. Now its flags spark protests - opinion

The Jewish Brigade has become a screen onto which other conflicts are projected: Zionism and anti-Zionism, antisemitism, Israel and Palestine, the meaning of antifascism, and more.

A contingent remembering the Jewish Brigade, which fought in World War II, marches during Italy's 80th Liberation Day commemoration in Milan, Italy, on April 25, 2025. The next year, pro-Palestinian activists forced Jewish groups out of the Liberation Day procession.
US rapper and producer Kanye West arrives for the 67th Annual Grammy Awards at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on February 2, 2025.

Italy bans Kanye West, Travis Scott concerts over security concerns

ERRI DE LUCA (on the screen) converses with Prof. Uri S. Cohen (seated on the right) at the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem on Monday.

Italian author Erri De Luca: ‘I am prepared to lose everything’ for backing Israel

ROME - ITALY : Gay Pride 2025,event in Rome,Italy, June 14,2025

Jewish LGBTQ group banned from Rome Pride parade for not denouncing Israeli government on Gaza


No Minister, no passport: Bureaucracy risks Israel’s 2026 Winter Olympic dreams

“If these athletes cannot represent Israel, the delegation will almost not exist. That would be a major failure and a crying shame for generations,” said an Israeli Olympic Committee official.

FIGURE SKATER Mariia Seniuk, selected as Israel’s flag bearer, faces uncertainty over her participation in the 2026 Winter Olympics next month in Italy due to a passport issue, a bureaucratic fiasco affecting much of the blue-and-white delegation.

Hamas uses 'humanitarian aid' mask in Italy to fund its terror - opinion

Italy’s Hamas funding scandal reveals how political protection, propaganda, and willful blindness enabled terror financing in the heart of Europe.

Hamas-affiliated activists arrested in Italy.

From visiting to belonging: Micol Radzik's path to aliyah

Not a sudden move but a long decision, how Israel became home through patience, purpose, and planning.

Micol Radzik on the Tayelet in Tel Aviv, 2019.

Italian police arrest nine for raising millions in terror funding for Hamas

Three associations that claimed to support Palestinian civilians are also implicated, allegedly serving as a front for Hamas funding, local police said.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators sits down in front of police officers during the protest on the Milan's highway against the interception by Israeli army of the Global Sumud Flotilla, on October 3, 2025.

New Rome metro stations showcase ancient treasures after years of delays

Excavations for the new stations revealed remarkable finds, which slowed work as archaeologists painstakingly preserved layers of ancient Rome they hadn't known were there.

eople look at the artifacts found during the construction of the new metro line at the Colosseum metro station which promise to dazzle locals and tourists with museum-like displays of archaeological discoveries, in Rome, Italy December 16, 2025.

UK, Canada, Germany, others condemn Israel's West Bank settlement plan

Britain, Canada, Germany, and other nations condemn Israel's approval of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, calling it a violation of international law and a threat to stability.

Israeli flags flutter at the entrance to Evyatar, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, November 30, 2025.

This is what next summer will look like for Israelis: Two new destinations starting at $299

Sun d’Or launches its summer 2026 schedule with 19 destinations, including new routes to Naples from $299 and Salzburg from $349. Flights will operate starting at the end of March.

Salzburg.

Ancient DNA reveals extreme family ties in Bronze Age southern Italy - study

The genetic evidence is consistent with a father-daughter union, making it one of the clearest and earliest documented cases of such extreme parental consanguinity in the archaeological record.

DNA (illustrative).

High-tech cleaning brings back brutal detail of Rome’s Danube wars

The hand-held lasers concentrate flickering beams of light onto the stone, with the heat they generate lifting away black deposits of pollution to reveal the white Carrara marble beneath.

A worker uses a laser to clean a section of the Column of Marcus Aurelius during restoration work, in Rome, Italy, December 18, 2025.

New frescoes unearthed in villa near Pompeii show 'extraordinary details and colors'

Archaeologists found a nearly complete peahen fresco, missing its head, dating to the mid-first century B.C., that may have belonged to Poppaea Sabina, the second wife of Emperor Nero.

A fresco of a peacock unearthed at the Villa Poppaea in Oplontis, on the outskirts of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, in Torre Annunziata, Italy, in this handout released December 18, 2025.