“The media are enhancing antisemitism,” the president of the Jewish Community of Rome tells JNS.
Italy’s Jewish community documented a record high of 963 antisemitic incidents in 2025—a 10% increase over 2024—which a communal leader on Thursday attributed to biased media coverage on Israel.
Whereas authorities in Italy are generally working to curb antisemitism, “The media are enhancing antisemitism,” Victor Fadlun, president of the Jewish Community of Rome, told JNS about the figures that the Milan-based Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation), or CDEC, is due to publish next week.
Some facts about the soon-to-be-released report were published last week by Moked, the news site of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI).
