The Cost of Truth From Rome to Gaza

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It is the night of October 17, 2025.
An explosive device has been placed under the car of investigative journalist and Report host Sigfrido Ranucci. The car blew up, damaging another family vehicle and the nearby house. On the scene were the Carabinieri, Digos, forensic police, and firefighters. The local prosecutor’s office was immediately alerted, as was the Prefect. The blast was powerful enough to kill anyone passing by.

In a statement, the President and Commissioners of Italy’s Communications Authority expressed “deep solidarity and closeness to journalist Sigfrido Ranucci and his family for the vile attack suffered last night.”

The note called it “an act of intimidation that, beyond being a grave personal crime, represents an assault on the freedom of a professional journalist and on every Italian’s right to free, independent, and qualified information.”

Is the Italian press free?

The truth is that the Italian press has failed to prove itself free.

It appears increasingly submissive to the neo-fascist government in Rome, to Washington’s dictates, to the bureaucrats of Brussels, and under the watchful eye of Israel’s spyware, as The Guardian revealed last June.

The pursuit of truth by Report will no doubt continue; the bombing will not stop Report from doing its job. The program’s new season is set to debut on Oct. 26 as planned.

The attack on the journalist Sigfrido Ranucci is no accident. It is the price of being among the few editorial teams still willing to expose corruption and the hypocrisy of Italian and foreign politics.

The RAI program Report has irritated many—politicians, corporations, foreign governments, and organized crime syndicates, both homegrown and international. It has also dared to illuminate Europe and Italy’s complicity in Israel’s crimes and focused on Israel’s genocide. The program recently reported on alleged connections between soccer teams, far-right politicians, and organized crime.

The Power of the Israeli Lobby in Europe

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By Giorgio Mottola, from Report, January 12, 2025.
As the massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continues, Europe has taken an openly supportive stance toward Israel. The relationship between European institutions and the Israeli government has changed significantly since the 2000s, when numerous pro-Israel lobbying groups established offices in Brussels and, within a short time, succeeded in taking root within both the European Parliament and the European Commission.

The genocide lobby in Europe: An underestimated force?

The intertwined interests of the political and economic elites in Europe to support apartheid and genocide in Palestine are well-known among progressive movements, not only since UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s recent reports, the Economy of Genocide and the Genocide as a Collective Crime.

In March 2025 – one and a half years into the Gaza genocide—the European Israel lobby group ELNET (European Leadership Network) identified Israel as a “key partner for Europe’ssecurity.” Read more here

The historical Connection between Fascist Italy and Israel today

The complicity between the Italian state and Israel’s ongoing crimes did not emerge overnight. Its origins lie in the early twentieth century, when Zionist leaders sought legitimacy and military inspiration from Europe’s colonial powers.

What binds Mussolini’s Italy to Netanyahu’s Israel is not a coincidence—it is continuity. Both are built on the same colonial scaffolding: racial hierarchy, militarized nationalism, and the myth of moral superiority. This video revisits a buried history—the collaboration between revisionist Zionism and Italian fascism under Mussolini. It exposes how Europe’s colonial ideology was repackaged as Jewish “self-determination,” and how that deception continues to justify apartheid and annihilation in Palestine today.

This investigation critiques the political ideology of Zionism as a colonial project, not Judaism or Jewish identity. It exposes historical ties between European fascism and nationalist ideologies that still shape state violence today.

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