Women’s Day March in Rome organised by Italian #MeToo movement Non Una Di Meno (Not One Less) excludes Israeli woman because its manifesto calls for a ceasefire in Gaza “to stop the genocide”, and an end to “the apartheid and colonial occupation in Palestine”, said the chair of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, Noemi Di Segni.
Di Segni said the “transfeminist” procession for 8 March “is absolutely not open to all. “It was not on 25 November (the last such march) and it is not now.
“The manifesto highlights that there is only one kind of pain and horror to denounce, compared to a thousand that there are in the world, and already this explains that a choice of camp has been made, of being only on one side”.
Di Segni implicitly suggested the march by the Italian branch of the movement against patriarchal sex abuse and rape culture ignored the suffering caused by the brutal Hamas attacks that triggered Israel’s hardline response on October 7.
