Italian Online Campaign to Map “Zionist Tourism” Sparks Jewish Community Alarm

An anonymous Google form circulated on social-media platforms asked respondents to report Israeli visitors, hotels, businesses, property purchases and any organization allegedly linked to “Zionist neo-colonization.” The questionnaire claimed the data would be received by the Global Sumud Movement (GSM) and kept confidential for “future initiatives.” After the form was publicized, Italy’s National Coordinator for the Fight Against Antisemitism, Gen. Pasquale Angelosanto, intervened and the form was taken down.

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The campaign follows earlier attempts to compile “Zionist” lists, including a 2024 publication that named Jewish community figures, journalists, politicians and businesses. Researchers, students and leaders of Italy’s Jewish community report an environment where support for Israel—or being identified as Israeli or Jewish—can trigger harassment, intimidation and public targeting.

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Walker Meghnagi, president of Mosaico, the Jewish Community of Milan, condemned the questionnaire as a return to 1930s-era “hunting Jews.” Dalia Gubbay, vice-president of the Jewish Community of Milan, recalled Jewish participants being driven from the Liberation Day march on April 25, 2026, by hostile demonstrators. Researcher Benjamin Birely said classmates publicly branded him a “soldier without a uniform” after learning he was Israeli. The Milan community forwarded the form to authorities but did not launch its own legal action. GSM, known for coordinating Gaza flotillas, denied any involvement with the questionnaire.

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• “What is happening today shows that there are unbalanced individuals out there, and if this kind of message spreads widely enough, you are certain to find someone willing to act on it,” — Walker Meghnagi

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• “The appearance online of a questionnaire designed to map and catalogue Israeli citizens, businesses and hotels in our country is not an act of political criticism, but a form of intimidation that drags Italy back to the darkest periods of the twentieth century,” — Davide Riccardo Romano, director of the Jewish Brigade Museum in Milan

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