On 26 September 2025, FORSEA hosted a YouTube Dialogue on democratic struggles with a group of Italian organizers for a Free Palestine who, from the streets and squares of over 100 towns and cities across Italy, screamed truth to power, the Far Right regime of Meloni. In the 60-minutes dialogue they drove home the message that the Italian regime is fork-tongued and complicit in Israel’s daily livestreamed genocide in Gaza.
As one of the dialogue participants, the Italian film director Michela Occhipinti, said the people of Italy know their politicians and media were repeating Israeli’s lies really.
As Katie Halper, the courageous Jewish journalist and talk show host from New York, emphatically observed, everything Israel has told the world “about its founding, its history and its role today is a lie.”
As a matter of fact, Israel’s verifiable lies were once again repeated by his current Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu as he addressed the almost empty United Nations General Assembly last week.
[Also see Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Netanyahu’s Vulgar UN Lies, 26 Sept. 2025]Lubna Speitan, the Greenwich-based Palestinian organizer and an accomplished artist in UK, joined our dialogue and added her rich if painful perspective as a Palestinian in diaspora who lost 56 of her extended family members since the start of the Zionist Israel’s long premeditated genocide.
All genocides are, by definition, premeditated and orchestrated. Emphatically, any student of genocides can tell you that no genocide in history is a response to any immediate trigger.
The 2-year-long and ongoing genocidal destruction of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, is no exception. Palestine’s history did not begin on 7 October 2023.
Israel today is pursuing “Mein Kampf in reverse” in Gaza and Palestine at large, as ex-general and former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaa’lon put it bluntly – and disapprovingly – to a group of his former colleagues who headed Israel’s security forces including intelligence and internal security services, as well as the Israeli Occupation Forces (in Palestine).
(See the 4th of July 2025-dated open letter to US President Donald Trump Jr, urging the US genocidaire-in-chief to help end the “war” against Gazans, endorsed by nearly 600 ex-military commanders).
Hear the following voices of Italians who contributed to the nationwide mobilization on 22 September. For a Free Palestine. And against the genocidal Imperialists of the decaying West.
Michael Leonardi is an activist, writer, educator, and founder of Procida for a Free Palestine, and Tree Water Initiative, Procida, Italy.
Michela Occhipinti is an Italian film director and an active member of Free Citizens for Palestine, Roma, Italy.
Father Pietro Rossini from Emilia-Romagna region who represents the Priests against Genocide.
