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INTERVIEW ON BIAGI opinion


Edition 123, 06/08/2006

Interview - Andrea Jarach. It is white in the center-right? For Biagi is not a good jew
of Stefano Magni

Three Jews: the good, the bad and the ugly. The bad, of course, is that which applies in Milan with the center-right "hand in hand with the neo-fascists." So one can summarize the comments of Enzo Biagi, the latest edition of the weekly L'Espresso. But the "bad" does not fit, do not flatten on a derogatory stereotype and responded with a lawsuit to Enzo Biagi and the weekly L'Espresso. The villain in question is Andrea Jarach, publisher, president of Friends of Yad Vashem, the world's most important institution for the memory of the Holocaust and has devoted almost his entire professional life to combating anti-Semitism and revive the historical memory Holocaust and many important publications. Jarach is offended because of "the fact that Biagi has used three abstract categories of people: the jew good (Moni Ovadia), the relative of the Nazi jew and so it becomes even better (Matthias Göring) and finally the horrible jew to hold up as a monster, that Andrea Jarach. This is defamation: the tone of the article which gives us an idea of \u200b\u200bthe existence of this renegade jew who does not think his ancestors and should be held up to public ridicule. "

What effect did read an article about her written by one of the cornerstones of Italian journalism ?

"A sense of deep injustice. The phrase that struck me the most is the final one: 'I can not understand and I will not even make the effort to understand' referring to my political choice. This is the very symbol of the arrogance of the media power of a man who certainly has merits accumulated in the course of his life, but at this point has clearly developed a sense of omnipotence. He feels the right to judge a person, a professional, not even bother to evaluate it. The type 12 would be enough letters on a search engine, he would just write Andrea Jarach the search bar (the name and wrote it three times in his article), to find a few thousand citations for everything I have done in my life, good or bad it is. You are not limited to denigrate. He did not say to a writer, 'you do not know write', or an electrician 'you do not do your job well,' he accused me, I have dedicated many years of my life to the reconstruction of the memory of the Shoah, to 'go hand in hand with the neo-fascists'. The severity of defamation is to say that a jew, jew since, he has no civil liberty to choose a side, according to a sort of transitive property of alliances. I have joined a civil list of a lady called Letizia Moratti, voted by 52% of the population of Milan and I do not see what I may have to do with the neo-fascists. That's why I said, I wrote, I declared before the elections, in interviews published in Il Giorno, La Repubblica ... It is absolutely inconceivable that personal attack. In addition to all make a dramatic mistake to define them as 'the brother of the editor', while the publisher is really me. It seems an article written by a person who does not know me in no way whatsoever. "

Biagi says she has split the Jewish community with his choice. Why? The Jewish community must necessarily be left ?

"Not true. The Jewish community is not divided, nor do I split myself. There have always been very different ideas in it. There's a joke about it, just told by Moni Ovadia, a jew is shipwrecked on a desert island. When he recovered, the rescuers can see who has built two synagogues. When asked why, the jew says, 'one is where I always go, the other into the barrel where it is never, even dead '. The Jews, not only fighting each other, but also with themselves. They are personal choices. The Jewish community has always left free to choose, no one took part against me, no one has taken part with me. It must be said that after the publishing of Biagi, there was a unanimous reaction of the Communities in my favor. "

Why you always think that anti-Semitism is always just right and the left ignores anti-Semitism?

There is also anti-Semitism on the left? "In the many letters of solidarity I have received, even by friends of the left, what emerges And above all, understanding that the neo-fascism is and remains an enemy of the Jews, the enemy today is mainly on the left. And that's a fact. Today, inside the left feeds the strong anti-Semitic fringe, with the excuse dell''antisionismo ', reproduce the more sinister prejudices of anti-Semitism. "

Anti-Semitism is therefore more common in left?

"Absolutely. At a time when Oliviero Diliberto met Sheikh Nasrallah, leader of Hizbollah, stands as a dialoguing with terrorism. With terrorism you can not talk. He reiterated, finally, even the European Union. Teaches us the same history of Nazism: the world should have learned the lesson of '38, when he made the mistake of coming to terms with Hitler. Now he is committing the same mistake with terrorist organizations and Iran. The dialogue is done by those who accept the difference. Who does not accept the other one can not talk: it is legitimate to use force. Israel has learned the hard way. "

The left is guilty of appeasement?

"Not only the guilt of appeasement, but also that of 'self-hating', self-flagellation. There are half of the victims of terrorist attacks and we continue to bask in our guilt. The self-defense exists, from time immemorial. "