From Donatella Di Cesare to her friends

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Most of the people who wrote answering my letter and my request of solidarity are people I did not know before. With the signature alone, with a few firm words, or with a more articulated comment they wanted to express their disdain for what has happened; they wanted to show their closeness to all the professors included in the “black list”.

The messages they have sent are various and come from the United States, from Brazil, Israel, Germany, Spain, Italy. They have been clearly written by people of different ages, young and less young. Among them, there are those who have never experienced anti-Semitism, not even indirectly, and those, instead, who have survived the Shoah. There are dissenting opinions – just as it should be. This will help us to argue in the future. But the common thread that runs through all the messages Is the astonishment that something like this could happen in Italy nowadays.

Many of them express the need to not underestimate this event at all, as if it were an isolated mishap, and to read it, instead, as the sign of a prejudicial hostility against Israel, as a sign of an anti-Semitism which sometimes wanders even in an unconscious way. Over this, everyday, we will need to be vigilant. I could not imagine receiving so many messages and such solidarity.

I would like to thank everybody, friends, students, colleagues, the many people that I have got to know in this circumstance. It is in this way that even what is negative can become positive. A special thanks to “Giorno di Israele” that took the initiative in hosting this blog.

Donatella Di Cesare

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