A-Infos (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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