(5 Dec 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome, Italy - 05 December 2023
1. Wide of people holding Israeli, Italian and peace flags in Piazza del Popolo
2. Close of Israeli flag
3. Banner reading (English): "7 October we won't forget # bring them home now"
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Noemi Di Segni President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities:
"I can't not be allowed to turn around freely with a Magen Dawid (Star of David in Hebrew) around my neck and be afraid that someone will attack me because I use a religious symbol. This means that Italy is no longer a free country. It's very, very serious. So, the cry of this square is that we must all be able to allow anyone to dress as they want and walk freely as they feel."
5. Wide of people holding Israeli, Italian and peace flags in Piazza del Popolo
6. Pull focus from toy truck to Israeli flags
7. Banner showing a picture of Israeli family kidnapped by Hamas
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Daniele Volterra:
"The Palestinians don't want us, it's a fight between us and them, us Jews and their Muslims. Don't let them tell me that it's a matter of politics, because it's not true. They don't want us on that land, we must disappear. You all saw what they wanted to do to us. The world saw it."
9. Banner reading (Italian) "Never again is now"
10. Wide of people holding Israeli, Italian and peace flags in Piazza del Popolo
11. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Alba Montori, rally participant:
"Unfortunately, violence is taught exactly as peace can be taught. There are people who are educated from an early age to be mean and violent with another piece of humanity and it is not clear why. Frankly, apart from understanding why, because now frankly I don't care about that, the important thing is to try to make sure that this doesn't happen."
12. Wide of people holding Israeli, Italian and peace flags in Piazza del Popolo
13. Man holding an Israeli flag
14. Wide of stage
STORYLINE:
A few thousand people gathered in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo for the “No to Anti-Semitism, No to Terrorism” rally organized by the Jewish Community of Rome and the Union of Italian Jewish Communities on Tuesday night.
Many Israeli and peace flags were waved by demonstrators who demanded condemnation of the Hamas attack and for hostages to be released.
Given the rising episodes of anti-Semitism throughout Europe since the outbreak of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the event is intended to “launch an appeal in defence of the rights and values that inspire and guide our society,” the organizers said.
“I can't not be allowed to turn around freely with a Magen Dawid (Star of David in Hebrew) around my neck and be afraid that someone will attack me because I use a religious symbol,” said Noemi Di Segni, President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities.
“This means that Italy is no longer a free country. It's very, very serious,” she said.
AP Video by Luigi Navarra.
Production by Silvia Stellacci
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