Rome remains “forever against Jerusalem,” it was declare today by Roberto Farinacci, former secretary of the Fascist Grand Council and leading Italian anti-Semite, in an address opening the academic year of the Fascist Cultural Institute. Farinacci declared that since 1919 Premier Benito Mussolini had identified Judaism with bolshevism. He added that the Church had been hostile to the Jews throughout the ages.
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