A writer in a left-wing journal says “crude anti-Semitism” is emanating from extreme leftist parties in the guise of anti-Zionism. Pietro Buttita, an author and journalist, noted the appearance of anti-Semitic leaflets and inscriptions in Rome streets during recent public demonstrations and while President Richard M. Nixon visited Rome last month. Writing in Opinion, a weekly published by the left-wing of the Nenni Socialist Party, Mr. Buttita said the authors of the leaflets were neo-Nazi and neo-Fascist groups but that they shared the anti-Zionist attitudes of the extreme left-wing parties. “Are we not in the presence of anti-Semitism originating in non-traditional quarters?” he wrote, Mr. Buttita is the author of “The Seventh Day, a book about the June, 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
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