The head of an Italian Palestinian
association has been expelled from Milan for congratulating the
youths who attacked Maccabi Tel Aviv fans after a Europa League
match in Amsterdam on November 7 shouting anti-semitic slogans
and injuring a dozen Israeli supporters in an incident that
Jewish leaders have likened to a pogrom.
The president of the Palestinian Association of Italy, Mohammad
Hannoun, told ANSA he received an expulsion order from Milan
Friday "for incitement to hatred and violence in reference to
the (pro-Palestinian) march (in Milan) last Saturday, because I
complimented the young people of Amsterdam".
Hannoun, founder in 1994 of the charitable association of
solidarity with the Palestinian people, last October was
included in the blacklist of the US Department of the Treasury
on charges of being a financier of terrorism and of promoting
demonstrations against Israel.
At last Saturday's march in the Lombardy capital, the 57th in
Milan since the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, Hannoun, who
lives in Genoa, told ANSA: "I said that they did well to beat up
Israeli fans because they were shouting death to Arabs and
Muslims, praising the criminal Israeli army and the crimes
against Gazans, they also beat up Arab citizens of Amsterdam and
tore Palestinian flags from private homes, they were asking for
it".
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