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Following Hamas, the United Nations is also blacklisting Israel for sexual violence. And the Italian government is silent.
Here's a translation of the Italian text into English:
They had stated it first, and yet with blatant pride. When in August 2025 the United Nations listed Hamas on the blacklist of perpetrators of sexual violence in conflict zones, the majority in Italy transformed that relationship into a club. The UN Special Representative Pramila Patten, after her March 2024 visit to Israel, concluded that there were reasonable grounds to believe that rapes and other forms of sexual violence were committed on October 7, 2023. This conclusion formed a substantial part of the pro-Israel consensus, in Parliament and in talk shows. Rape as a weapon, repeated, certified, sculpted.
Today, May 28, 2026, the same United Nations decided to include Israel on that list as well. Alongside Hamas. Alongside ISIS.
This was announced on X by the Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, describing it as a “political decision” disconnected “from the facts and reality.” The new annual report on sexual violence in conflicts is not yet public, and this detail matters, but Jerusalem’s reaction has already arrived and says a great deal: Israel has suspended cooperation with the office of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who concludes his term at the end of the year. “Anyone who is able to put Israel on the same list as Hamas terrorists and rapists has no moral legitimacy,” Danon added. Everything as part of a script: when the facts cease to serve, they become slander.
The Moral Proof and its Cracks
For two years, the Italian government had used the dossier on sexual violence as the definitive moral proof. Yet that dossier, through several steps, had fragile foundations. The New York Times investigation of December 28, 2023, “Screams Without Words,” which had established systematic rape as a cornerstone of the narrative surrounding October 7th, was contested by the Be’eri kibbutz on one of the symbolic cases, partially dismantled by the same newspaper over a key witness, and more than sixty journalism professors demanded an independent review. The same UN report of August 2025, alongside Hamas, already flagged the sexual violence committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian detainees, and noted that Israel had prevented investigations.
All of this remained outside the frame of the Italian debate.
And now? Now the government that had erected its firmness on sexual violence as an absolute crime finds itself facing the same accusation, the same source, the same organization, directed at the defending state. The Italian outrage parenthesis, meanwhile, seems to have closed quickly.
On May 20th, a video of Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir humiliating the activists of the Flotilla provoked the harshest reaction: Giorgia Meloni and Antonio Tajani spoke of images “unacceptable,” Sergio Mattarella of a “low” gesture. Tajani asked the European Union to impose sanctions solely on Ben-Gvir, a measure that requires the unanimity of the Twenty-Seven and which currently has the support of only Spain. On the rest, prudence. The opposition demands to move from words to deeds, and the premier “is late,” says Elly Schlein.
One Sole Source, Two Weights
The question remains, and it’s worth reading it slowly and aloud: if sexual violence was the crime that made Hamas indefensible, and the source was reliable enough to become a government topic, what now that the same source indicts Israel as well?
Unless one decides that the UN is authoritative when accusing the enemy and political when accusing the friend. Or does one really think that the only moral rapes under scrutiny are those of a minister in a video, and that censoring him alone is enough to close the case.
As Manzoni wrote, putting it in Don Abbondio’s mouth, “one cannot give it.” Don Abbondio at least confessed it. The Italian government, on its part, prefers to pretend that it has spent it all against one man.
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