Italy’s Refusal to Recognize Palestinian State Sparks Violent Riots
“Milan right now looks like a literal war zone. A coalition of far-left activists and Muslim migrant gangs is currently rioting and destroying the city. … Total chaos.”
At a United Nations summit ahead of the annual General Assembly in New York on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron declared, “Today, France recognizes the state of Palestine. We must pave the way for peace.” Soon after, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Portugal announced that they, too, were prepared to recognize a Palestinian state.
At Monday’s White House press briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that President Donald Trump “disagrees” with the decisions and “believes it is a reward to Hamas.” Leavitt added the president “feels this does not do anything to release the hostages, which is the primary goal right now in Gaza” and “does nothing to end this conflict and bring this war to a close.”
The New York Times reported:
Among the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, only the United States now objects to Palestinian statehood. Yet Washington’s opposition is crucial, because the permanent members wield veto power. The Security Council has the power to approve statehood, and the United States stands in the way.
Last year, under President Biden, Washington blocked the Council from moving forward on a Palestinian bid to be recognized as a full member state at the United Nations. The vote was 12 in favor of the resolution, with only the United States opposed. Britain and Switzerland abstained.
Although Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has at times criticized Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, she continues to oppose the recognition of a Palestinian state. Her latest rejection of the initiative sparked protests across the country on Monday, as leftist groups, Islamist organizations, and Muslim gangs took to the streets to voice their anger. In several cities — most notably Milan and Rome — the demonstrations quickly turned violent, with widespread reports of clashes with law enforcement, road and port blockages, and vandalism of police stations and other public property.
Photos of the mayhem can be viewed in the social media post below.
This is just some of the destruction wrought in one of Europe’s largest displays of violence and hate after Italy did not recognize a Palestinian state today. pic.twitter.com/6qji9BHvlY
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) September 22, 2025
Conservative influencer @realMaalouf reported that “Milan right now looks like a literal war zone. … Total chaos.”
ITALY: Milan right now looks like a literal war zone.
A coalition of far-left activists and Muslim migrant gangs is currently rioting and destroying the city because Italy refuses to recognize a Palestinian state.
Total chaos.
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) September 22, 2025
In remarks before the General Assembly on Tuesday morning, Trump pushed back against the madness. He reiterated his position that after the atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023, recognition of a Palestinian state is a reward for Hamas. He demanded that the terrorist group “Release the hostages now!”
BREAKING: Trump, speaking at the UN General Assembly, said that recognizing a Palestinian state after the October 7th atrocities is a reward for Hamas. “Release the hostages now!” pic.twitter.com/3AougVdC91
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) September 23, 2025
The overwhelming number of Western governments expressing their support for a two-state solution makes me wonder if they’ve collectively lost their minds.
Despite the propaganda, Palestinians are not the victims in this conflict. In many cases, Palestinians are members of Hamas. Some even participated in the atrocities that occurred on Oct. 7, 2023. Others held hostages captive in their homes afterward.
A June 2024 survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that Palestinian support for Hamas stood at 75%. As the war dragged on, that backing declined, but by May 2025, the center reported that 57% of Palestinians in the West Bank and 43% in Gaza still supported the terror group.
According to the poll, Palestinians favor Hamas leaders over Fatah and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, with 81% saying they would like him to resign.
Moreover, 50% of Palestinians surveyed in May said that Hamas’s depraved attacks were “correct.”
Finally, it must be noted that within two years of Israel’s “disengagement” from the Gaza Strip in 2005, Hamas had taken over its leadership.
This brings us back to why Western leaders still think a two-state solution in Israel is the answer. Hot Air’s David Strom has a pretty good idea. They are “caving on Israel because they are afraid of the monster they created.” He explains:
It’s because they are scared of the Muslims they have imported. They are doing so for the same reason they are arresting Britons for waving British, English, Welsh, or Scottish flags while ignoring Muslims waving the flags of Hamas and Hezbollah: they are scared witless.
They do this because they know two things: Britons will not slit somebody’s throat if they are confronted and have a flag ripped away from them, and that many Muslims will do so without a second thought.
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They are terrified. So terrified that they allow gangs to r@pe children, and have been doing so for decades.
And it’s not just the radical Muslims of whom they are terrified. They are terrified of Antifa and the radicals who have attached themselves to the Palestinian cause. The left sees the Palestinian cause as embodying every cause they coalesce around. The socialists have adopted the cause, as has every radical group.
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Climate change used to be the unifying cause. Palestine is now. The issues are excuses for attacking the West, not the reason they do so.
Western leaders are scared to fight for our civilization, and Israel is just the baby they are throwing to the wolves.
Cowardice, not principle, has led them to this juncture.
Kudos to Giorgia Meloni for standing up for the Israelis.
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Time for water cannons. Or double cannister at 150 yards.
Water cannons? Ma Duce!
A whiff of the grapeshot, eh? Tres bien!
I think molto bene fits the context better.
Give them a whiff of grapeshot.
Are you sure they aren’t being mostly peaceful?
Just shoot them
Enough of this crap
Brilliant!
The leftists never deviate, it’s always ‘do/give us what we want or we bring out the mob and unleash chaos, violence and anarchy’. IMO anything less than a vigorous response to immediately halt the mob by dispersal, mass arrests and relentless prosecution followed by long prison terms is seen as weak and will only fuel more lefty extortion/mob actions.
You forgot deportations if not citizens.
From my foxhole deportation of criminal aliens is always implied. All illegal Aliens and those with temporary permission to be in the USA whose criminal conduct violates the terms of the grant of permission absolutely deport them. For green card holders there’s a few more steps but yeah eventually deport any non Citizen who engages in mob activity.
Um, this is Italy, not the USA!
we are not the usa
we are the 3rd world non educated /low IQ of a leftist mindset
Are these riots caused by Communists or Fascists? Because the Sage of San Francisco Kamala Harris just arose from her knees after … er, very deep compilation … and told us that Trump is now a Communist, when just five seconds ago he was a Fascist. Was there a sudden lightning-fast switcheroo in Europe as well?
Oceania has always been at war with
EurasiaEastasia.The communists and fascists are essentially two sides of the same Leftist coin. They are both very much about government control of everything, and about little or no individual liberty and freedom.
“1984” was about control.
Italy needs to deport every single “immigrant” who engages in violent protests. Palestinian supporters are no better than the terrorists they champion.
The genocidal, belligerent, destructive and wicked Arab invaders from Arabia (who brazenly co-opted the name of the Roman province of “Palaestina,” in a dishonest bid at retroactive historical legitimacy and in a stunt of brazen historical revisionism) have had de facto independent states in the West Bank and Gaza, for decades. What have the Arab “Palestinians” produced with their labors, hundreds of billions of dollars of squandered international aid and perpetual whining, except more Islamic “holy war” terrorism; more poverty; more corruption; more strife?
These wretched, contemptible, greasy and duplicitous Arab Islamofascist/Muslim terrorist pukes have had every opportunity to establish peaceful, self-sufficient, prosperous and wealthy enclaves in Gaza and the West Bank, but, they’ve gleefully destroyed those opportunities by choosing to wage rabid, genocidal and fanatical Islamic “holy war” terrorism against the indigenous Israeli Jews, every single time.
This recognition stunt by France, the U.K., Spain, Portugal, Canada and Australia is a despicable, feckless, gullible, indefensible and morally bankrupt act of cowed appeasement of Islamofascists and Muslim terrorists.
They can’t even come anywhere close to feeding themselves.
A slowdown of any measure in the food deliveries to those territories is considered an effort at genocide.
They don’t deserve their own state, and there’s no wonder why the rest of the world doesn’t want to take in these people.
Not even the Arab countries will take them. Remember when Egypt and Jordan refused to allow them to enter their countries after Oct. 7. Because they know where Palestinians go, trouble follows.
The Orcs of the Middle East, their reputation precedes them.
And “palestinians” are overwhelmingly Egyptians and Jordanians by origin. They were the dregs of those societies when the modern state of Israel was created.
They are not Jordanian by origin. Almost none of their ancestors came from Jordan. A significant number came from Egypt, but not a majority. More came from Syria, Turkey, Arabia, and even Bosnia. I don’t know where the idea came from that a significant number came from Jordan.
Say rather by the Leftist regimes of those nations. It’s certainly not the totality of those nations, with plenty absolutely disgusted by the craven decisions of those who are supposed to represent their interests.
So, the leaders of this Arab “Palestinian” terrorist state are the corrupt, life-tenured, billionaire, dictator-terrorist of the West Bank, Abbas, and, the corrupt terrorist regime of Hamas, in Gaza.
This is the leadership that these idiotic, western, leftist dhimmi fools want to show deference and diplomatic courtesies to?
By the way, who want to bet that, now, the vile, stupid and evil Dhimmi-crats will make recognition of the Arab “Palestinian” terrorist state an issue in their 2028 presidential nominating contest, and, party platform?
Islam is like water pressure, it is relentless. A small crack in the largest stone on earth can be split by water pressure. They push until they meet resistance and then they slack off, for a while. Then the pressure comes back. Do our leaders understand this? They never pack up and go home. They never assimilate. They never honor their host country’s laws or culture. No one ever migrates to an Islamic country! Why can’t our leaders see what is going on in EVERY nation that has allowed these monsters into their country? Stockholm Sweden is now the number two country in the WORLD for rape! Guess who? Partly to blame are our religious leaders who try to warm up to Islam and “Live side by side in peace with them”. BS! this is not possible! When will Trump address this? If it isn’t him, I don’t see anyone in the near future who has the balls to address it.
Stockholm is not a country!!!
And Swedish rape stats can’t be compared to those of any other country, because their definition of rape is much broader than that of any other country.
When John Adams went to negotiate with the Barbary Pirates, who were Muslim, they gave him a copy of the Koran as a gift. On the voyage home he read it. As soon as he got home he authorized the creation of the US Marines. That should tell you all you need to know right there.
Round them up and
Put them on a leaky freighter to nowhere. Tell the Arab nations to pick them up. If no one wants them put a torpedo right below the stack. See how quickly the violent outbursts stop. FAFO
The Western world has no other solution other than mass expulsion of Muslims. Every last one of them– citizen or not. We cannot dissuade, deter, or even negotiate with fanatics who lack any fear of us, even of death. On the other hand, people in the West live in fear of them, including their leaders. To better understand the danger we face from Islam, go to politicalislam dot com. The website of one Bill Warner (aka Bill French) a former physics professor. He has a PhD in physics and mathematics. (My own career.) As such he brings the kind of analytical thinking one needs to understand the implacable nature of Islam. Don’t miss his video, “why we are afraid a 1400 year secret.” He also presents his results of a linguistic analysis of the foundational books of Islam. One result: more antisemitism in the Koran than in Mein Kampf.
Do they fear anything? Yes, sexual mutilation before death. People in our State Department know this and don’t want the public to know. I confronted a department official on this, in a SCIF, and she got most upset and ran away. My own analysis comes from a study of the Bonjinka plot and the behavior of Ramzi Yousef together with other events.
To those who object to the expulsion of Muslims on moral or legal grounds, I say “too bad.” We must survive. It might already be too late as we can see from events in Europe. The riots in Italy are the last straw. At a minimum arm yourself and fight back.
Maybe just go ahead and get it over with…kill them all
God certainly will know His own
Meloni knows her history. Italy has a mixed record regarding the Holocaust. While Jews did face official discrimination under Mussolini, Italy was still relatively safe for Jewish citizens. Killings and deportations of Italian Jews only commenced in a big way after the Germans occupied the north of the country in late ’43. Despite this, around 80% of Italian Jews survived the war thanks to active and passive assistance by Italian gentiles.
Hey Macron you quiche eating effeminate simp today I recognize the state of Frankenstein with its capital at Paris. Now turn over the Notre Dame cathedral so it can be turned into a mosque.
They’ve imported so many Muslims plus the Muslims have been having larger families that now their police forces are outnumbered. Add in the leftists groups that will join them and those countries are lost. The growth of the Caliphate has succeeded.
Yep, I’m going to promote myself on this:
https://youtu.be/4-ix4lMuM5s?si=n45aPfwMZqTXSx3Y
Those countries who stated their support for a Palestinian state knew the US would stand in the way. Their public stance is meant to mollify the Leftists/Islamists in their own countries to prevent riots and destruction as is now happening in Italy. Their alleged bid for Palestinian statehood was nothing but theater.
Excellent point!
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has more courage, a stronger moral compass, and the ability to royally push back on gangs, including Muslims. The left and their Islamic cohorts communicate and destroy.
Now they have shown themselves they need to be eliminated.
She’s got bigger balls than most of the EU.
The rioting and destruction is proving the point!
I hope she stays strong. It is amazingly unfortunate that people fold to bullies like them.
Round up every rioter possible and air drop them in the middle of the med. God will sort it out then. If they make it back to Italy, continue asking God if they should be there by repeating the process.
Two state solution.
Idiots.
Everyone, even the Israelis, would welcome a real two state solution.
Everyone, that is, except the ‘Palestinians’.
Their refusal to accept any solution that leaves Israel in existence is why this is still going on.
like the usa
the opened up the ‘hotels” and said
welcome come on in
blmplo for everyone
The reason Western leaders unanimously support a “two state solution” is pretty obvious — it’s because since the Oslo disaster no Israeli government has ever argued against it, or made a case against it. Every Israeli government has either openly supported it or been silent and none have pushed against it.
That’s why the first US president to openly support it was W Bush, and every president since has done the same. Just as the popular saying goes “you can’t be more Catholic than the Pope”, Western governments can’t be more zionist than the Israeli government.
If we want Western governments to oppose a “two-state solution” then first we must have an Israeli government that openly and officially rejects that notion and goes back to the pre-Camp-David position that Israel will never allow a “Palestinian” state. Then it can make its case with allied leaders, and maybe some can be brought around. But so long as Israel itself officially supports this suicidal idea we can’t expect any other government to reject it.
The Israelis have tried to make pacifying noises to appease the West since the Oslo process began, and have been rewarded for their efforts by constantly increasing demonization. The reason is that there aren’t many Jews and there are a lot of Arabs. Moreover, the Arabs have oil. Add to this rapidly increasing migration into the West, and the long, long tradition of blaming the Jews for every ill in society, and you have the basis for Western policy towards Israel. “Morality” has nothing to do with it—although it is easy to get useful idiots into the streets to claim that it does. Instead, it is an exercise in Realpolitik, pure and simple. If there are a few countries that still oppose it, this is because their leaders have come to realize that cultural subversion due to increasing migration is more of a threat than the ire of oil-rich Muslim states.
It looks like importing the third world makes you third world.