{"id":15877,"date":"2026-05-14T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/15877\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:21:09","slug":"herzog-thanks-italy-for-opposing-boycott-at-venice-biennale-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/15877\/","title":{"rendered":"Herzog thanks Italy for opposing boycott at Venice Biennale &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (<br \/>\n                                May 14, 2026<br \/>\n                                 \/ JNS<br \/>\n                            )<\/p>\n<p>Israeli President Isaac Herzog thanked his Italian counterpart, Sergio Mattarella, for authorities\u2019 \u201cprincipled stand\u201d amid protests against Israel at the Venice Biennale art show, Herzog said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thanked President Mattarella and the Italian authorities for their principled stance in condemning these attacks and for their efforts to prevent them. Israel regards Italy as a close friend, and the partnership between our countries serves both our peoples and nations,\u201d Herzog wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I had a very good and wide-ranging conversation this evening with my friend President Mattarella of Italy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Quirinale?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Quirinale<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>We exchanged views on recent regional developments. During our discussion, I raised my concerns about the extreme anti-Israel \u2014 and at times antisemitic \u2014\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u05d9\u05e6\u05d7\u05e7 \u05d4\u05e8\u05e6\u05d5\u05d2 Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Isaac_Herzog\/status\/2054615626929373274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI raised my concerns about the extreme anti-Israel\u2014and at times antisemitic\u2014sentiment that has surfaced in parts of Italian public opinion, as reflected in the ongoing harassment of the Israeli pavilion at the Venice Biennale, as well as in protests against the raising of the [British Army\u2019s WWII] Jewish Brigade\u2019s flags in Milan,\u201d Herzog added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the five-member jury of the Biennale art show, one of the world\u2019s most prestigious, resigned in connection with the Italian government\u2019s opposition to a condition that management had tried to introduce, which would have excluded Israel and Russia. The condition, which was abandoned, said no country whose leaders is on trial at the International Criminal Court may attend.<\/p>\n<p>Italian Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli publicly opposed this condition because it was meant to exclude Israel, and the Israeli pavilion was allowed to open, but it was hit by protests by dozens of anti-Israel demonstrators several times.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"( May 14, 2026 \/ JNS ) Israeli President Isaac Herzog thanked his Italian counterpart, Sergio Mattarella, for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-15877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-italy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}