When Conflict Spills Over: Identities, Memories, Politics and Representations of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Italy— The 1960s

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been fought also outside the Middle East, reverberating into the domestic political and social dynamics of many countries. By investigating these dynamics, and therefore the cultural and political aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Italy, I analyze how this conflict came to be inextricably connected with political and existential questions of local relevance, and therefore with the lives, the memories, and the positioning of Italian Jews on the one hand, of Palestinians living in Italy (and/or Palestinian Italians) on the other, and with Italian politics in general. Inevitably, I also investigate how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict interlocked with anti-Semitism and, in part, also with Islamophobia.