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Originally Posted by M.R.
As far as I know, Italian fascism, historicaly, was quite friendly to Jews on the start. Anyway, this all seems strange to me, as far as I know Italian (neo-)Fascist movements, they are quite "anti-Semitic".
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Real neo-fascists (Forza Nuova etc) couldn't sum up their votes to a mere 1% of the total, they got even a fraction of that 1% ....
Foreign press parrots what italian liberal press says for propaganda reasons, this Alleanza Nazionale (most of the ex MSI turned necon now fused with Berlusconi liberal Forza Italia in the new PDL) is light years away from the old M.S.I.
Liasons between Musolini and jewry halted abruptly in 1938 when he assumed Hitler's position on the jewsh question by enacting mild "racial laws" (actually, laws identifying jews on practiced religion and not an any biological basis as the nazist had done), with a 180 degrees about face with regards to jews.
Before 1938 Mussolini had enjoyed the full support of italian jewry (excluding the age old, mostly proletarian Rome community, it was mostly a burgeois community that had deeply appreciated Mussolini's policy against the socialist menace): he had even made a program for training jewish cadets at the famed naval academy of Livorno, in prevision of the creation of a future jewish state in Palestine.