Italy: MP responds to journalist's criticism by saying he wouldn't take lessons from “that Jew”

As if painting his face black and delivering an astonishing racist diatribe in Italy’s lower chamber were not enough, Gianluca Buonanno of the right-wing Northern League has added anti-Semitism to his repertoire.

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Well-known Italian journalist Gad Lerner criticised “the campaign orchestrated against Cécile Kyenge by the League” and also accused the party of “cowardice” for publishing the minister’s daily agenda in its party paper. On Friday, Buonanno retorted that he would not take lessons from “that Jew”, a “rich skinflint who plays the communist.”

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