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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we in the
will vote for this resolution. Just now, however, we heard a speaker associate with the subject of the Holocaust nothing less than patriotism, nationalism and the movements that take their inspiration from them, to the extent that she even called for national flags to be removed from the seats in Parliament, flags that represent the healthy feeling of patriotism in which we still believe.
That demonstrates how it is possible to start from a reasonable premise but reach tyrannical conclusions that go against democracy. It is precisely for that reason that we are highly suspicious of this European directive, and we would remind the Commission representatives of the risk that it may be exploited for antidemocratic and illiberal purposes, as happened just now in this Chamber.
I have also heard Islamophobia mentioned a great deal throughout the debate. I think it would be appropriate to ask ourselves what it is that Jews in Europe and across the world fear today, seeing that synagogues and Jewish centres, at least in the Italian and European cities that I visit, are under virtual military guard 24 hours a day. Let us ask ourselves who really constitute a threat today, spreading racist propaganda on television and carrying out physical threats and attacks. The important UN Assembly has been mentioned, but we must ask ourselves which countries’ seats were left empty. Let us remember, then, the Islamic peril and Islamic anti-Semitic racism, which this Parliament should have felt a moral duty to condemn out of respect for the victims."@en1
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