Lost in the Uprising: Two American Brothers Swap Sun-Kissed Beaches for Tehran’s Turbulent Streets

The images arriving from the demonstration in Rome, where the Young Palestinians took to the streets to celebrate October 7, 2023, are a demonstration of increasingly widespread anti-Semitic hatred. The unauthorized procession of demonstrators left from Piazzale Ostiense towards Viale di Porta Ardeatina. “Palestine and Lebanon united: let’s stop the genocide with the resistance”, shout the participants, waving flags and banners and insulting the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “To the father’s sons who play at being revolutionaries, I say to them: if you are so revolutionary, go to Iran to demonstrate”, said Giovanni Donzelli, head of the FdI organization in Brucoli.

“Thinking that it is a right to go to the streets is right, we were the first to even say uncomfortable things, but we do it respecting the rules”, added Donzelli. The demonstration, called to stop the war launched by Israel against Gaza last October 7, and the recent attacks in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq, did not in fact receive the green light from the Police Headquarters. The area is heavily guarded and a helicopter flies over the area. Law enforcement officers, armored vehicles and water cannons are deployed at all accesses to the square, where documents are asked of those who enter. “Despite the ban we took to the streets because we have a historic responsibility. We ask for an end to the bombings. Italy must take a clear line. There was a mystification about this march. They told us it was a celebration of Hamas, but we are here to commemorate our dead, the Palestinian dead”, chanted one of the representatives of the Palestinian Arab Democratic Union,