An online Holocaust Remembrance Day event hosted by Israeli Ambassador to Italy Dror Eydar was interrupted by anti-Semites who managed to briefly disrupt the event and even scrawl virtual swastikas.
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The hackers, who are apparently neo-Nazis, took advantage of the joint Zoom screen and essentially took over by calling out profanities and drawing the graffiti. This happened just as Eydar was introducing the participants, which included the local professor in charge of the adoption of the antisemitism definition as proposed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
Eydar says the professor countered the provocateurs, saying: "How dare you use this symbol of death?" According to Eydar, he then moved to cancel the shared screen option so that the Nazis could be stopped in their tracks.
"This proves that there is still antisemitism on the fringes in Europe," Eydar said. "He said that "there is a great deal of solidarity with us, and as ambassador, I have felt that many have been listening to us," noted Eydar, who said that the majority of Italians do not share anti-Israeli views.
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