demanded they sign deportation papers accepting they had illegally entered Israel

Well, assaulting vessels in international waters and forcing the crew into your country is certainly illegal.

Oh, but it’s not a boycott of Israel - it’s a boycott against any nation whose leader is wanted for crimes against humanity.

An pro-Trump neonazi imbecile that breaks up with Trump is till a neonazi imbecile.

That said, I agree… he and his business should be as welcome in Europe as anybody else’s: we don’t discriminate.

Again and again this flawed logic where you either approve of everything Israel does or you are an antisemite… it’s high time we start distinguishing between the country of Israel and people of Jewish descent (Jewish people should learn the distinction too, seeing how this “antisemite” argument has been repeated by Jewish communities outside Israel).

As for Merz (and Germany, and Europe, and - alas - apparently the world in general), it’s a real shame that the moronic dichotomy of humanity into arbitrary “us” and “them” (and subsequent blaming of everything on “them”) is becoming mainstream rather than staying relegated to the far right (and groups of kids that bully other kids).

Ironically, this is the same exact world vision that gave us that nazi-fascism that so thoroughly embraced antisemitism and so methodically acted on it.

Basically, peaceful protest (from what I’ve heard in Italian media, defined as anything that disrupts the regular activities in the prison) is now a felony punishable with incarceration (not penalty cell time, mind you, actual additional years in prison).

This not only applies to actual inmates (whether found guilty or awaiting trial) but also irregular migrants detained in what are called “identification and expulsion centers” (CIE) but are basically just much worse prisons than regular ones.

Note that Italy’s prisons (both the “real” ones and CIEs) are quite overcrowded (prisons have 120% occupation on average with peaks of 190% - I don’t have data about CIEs but it’s a known fact they are often overcrowded).

Prison overcrowding is sadly a historical problem in Italy, but it’s gotten worse under Meloni’s government (especially when it comes to minors), as they have instituted several new kinds of felonies and aggravating circumstances, without any new investment in prisons.