Israel barred from major Italian expo as organizers push for Nobel Prize for children of Gaza
The organizers of one of Italy’s most prominent international trade exhibitions have barred the Israeli regime from this year’s event on grounds of ethical and political concerns over Tel Aviv’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The decision was reported by the Italian news agency ANSA on Sunday.
Nuova Fiera del Levante, as the exhibition is named, is scheduled to be held in the southern Italian city of Bari from September 13 to 21. The ban was confirmed after the city’s mayor, Vito Leccese, demanded that the regime be excluded.
In a July 1 statement, Leccese had declared the fair should “not let Israel participate in the event, institutional, and economic activities."
The event’s organizing committee not only endorsed the mayor’s call, but also went further, issuing a condemnatory statement.
“For a commonality of ethical and political views, the Nuova Fiera del Levante has from the outset expressed a clear distancing from the atrocities of the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people and has supported the initiative to propose the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to the children of Gaza,” it wrote.
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The campaign to nominate Gaza’s children for the prize has been launched by the cultural foundation L’isola che non c’è, which is based in the country’s Apulia region, which also includes Bari.
Addressing the initiative, the exhibition’s organizers described it as “a moral appeal to the international community to recognize the right to peace and life for every child, everywhere in the world.”
The minors comprise a considerable portion of the October 2023-present war of genocide that has so far claimed the lives of nearly 62,000 people, while deploying starvation as a weapon to maximize suffering and fatalities.
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The exhibition has long been a major hub of trade, culture, and diplomacy in Italy, hosting participants from across the world.
Observers hailed the move to bar the regime as an acknowledgment of the glaring contradiction between granting Tel Aviv a stage at international events and its relentless efforts to exact a maximal toll on the already battered and war-scarred coastal sliver.
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