WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, UCADI, #204 - What's New - Diasporas and Homelands (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Italian political circles are experiencing considerable dismay following the investigation by Genoa judges, which allegedly revealed the existence of a Hamas financing network operated by several Palestinian associations in Italy. These organizations claimed to be carrying out humanitarian work to aid the population of Gaza and the West Bank, and allegedly diverted all or part of the funds raised to finance the Palestinian organization's war efforts.

In our opinion, even if the judicial rulings were to confirm this to be true at the end of the investigation, it would not be surprising, given that it is common practice among diasporas in various countries, whether under colonial rule or seeking national independence, that those who left their country because of political persecution, to seek freedom for their ideas, or for economic reasons, to have a dignified and viable life, then decide to finance the struggle of their compatriots who remained in their homeland.
The Irish did it, emigrating to the United States with their compatriots, even going so far as to finance terrorist movements like the IRA, which carried out bloody attacks; the Jews of the diaspora did it on a massive scale, financing the terrorist movements that did the same and which led to the birth of the State of Israel, and they continue to do so today, persevering in fueling the policies of a criminal and genocidal state like Israel; the Kurds did it, fueling the struggles of this unfortunate people without, unfortunately, achieving any positive results, only being exploited by this or that power, as the case may be, to achieve goals unrelated to their struggle; the Armenians did it in a desperate effort to emerge from their genocide, regaining the dignity of their people: and we could continue, confident that the pages of this newsletter would not be enough to contain the list. To distinguish the Palestinian case from others, it's worth considering whether the fundraising for the armed struggle was hidden behind the fundraising for humanitarian aid to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people. This is assuming, however, that this is true, but it remains to be proven.
To do so, one would need to delve into the details of the investigation, conducted by the judiciary, to understand the sources on which the investigation is based. There is, in fact, talk of massive assistance provided by the Jewish state's intelligence services and its US minions. Nor can one rely on the police reports of other European states, all subservient to Israeli policies, organizations all interested in criminalizing all those movements, initiatives, and forces that support the Palestinian struggle, a people they aim to exterminate, as is clearly evident from what happened in Gaza and what is happening in the West Bank. These are the same people who created the Jewish state, thanks to funding for the Irgun Tzvai Leumi (National Military Organization) gangs, which, operating in Palestine during the British protectorate, had no qualms about massacring anyone who opposed their plan to build a state. Today, they finance the genocidal Israeli state.
It may be said that in this case we are faced with a scam, as the financing of the terrorist organization was masked by the declared humanitarian purpose of the fundraising, thus exploiting the good faith of at least some of the unsuspecting donors. However, it would be hypocritical not to remember that in all the cases cited, the combination of armed struggle and aid to the population massacred by the genocidal act was and is still being combined. It is impossible to distinguish, for a thousand reasons, the two objectives, not least because they are clearly interconnected by events, as well as by the genocidal act that legitimizes the right to defense, even armed.
It is this difference in weight and measure that is disgusting and reveals the guilty conscience of those who today criticize the struggle of the Palestinian people and those who support it. The double standard with which the West judges violations of international law as the actions of others and not its own, and considers the rights of peoples violated by others and not by its own institutions, is the fruit of believing itself to be a flourishing garden, and that its own world is cleaner, less corrupt than that of others.
One need only think of the golden toilets of the Ukrainian oligarchs to realize how fallacious this belief is.

https://www.ucadi.org/2026/01/31/cosa-ce-di-nuovo-le-diaspore-e-le-patrie/
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