Fascist Youth Movement Active Throughout Italy, Sides With Hamas And Bashar Assad, Promotes Revolution Inside Italy

A fascist Italian student association is operating mainly within high schools and universities. An offshoot of a nationwide fascist movement, it is reportedly present in over 50 Italian cities. The group has a website on which it publishes analyses, but the movement’s online activity happens mainly on a network of Telegram channels, where it promotes upcoming protests, commemorations, parades, flyer and poster campaigns, and revolutionary ideas.

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On Telegram, the Abruzzo Molise branch of the group posted a map of Italy showing a few of the movement's branches, with the group's emblem and website URL. The graphic shows a presence throughout Italy. It reads: "Where You Can Find Us!" 

In addition to addressing domestic issues the group holds an anti-American, pro-Assad and pro-Hamas stance. In the wake of October 7, they endorsed the pro-Hamas international campaign terminology seeking to de-legitimize Israel, using such words as ”Zionist entity” or “Palestine” for Israel, “genocide” for war, and “apartheid” for barriers. The movement also endorses the conspiracy theory that the world is subservient to the “Zionists,” i.e., the Jews. Following is a sample.

In November 2024, the group published an article titled “PALESTINE ONE YEAR LATER: BETWEEN GENOCIDE, ILLEGAL INVASIONS AND STATE TERRORISM.” The article states: “[...] The war carried out by the Zionist entity in Gaza and the West Bank does not have the slightest character of a war. Besieging a prison city with two million inhabitants such as Gaza or arming illegal settlers […] are not acts of war: they are acts of genocide. [...] Finally, in a world completely ideologically enslaved to Zionism, the fruit of that inevitable ‘sense of guilt’ that has dominated – unchallenged - for eighty years [i.e., since the Holocaust], at least public opinion is starting to move [...]"

The group has also supported Bashar Assad’s regime over the years and at the time of its fall. On December 19, 2024, it published an article titled “ISLAMIC TERRORISM, ISRAEL AND THE FALL OF BASHAR AL-ASSAD'S GOVERNMENT.” The article reads: “[...] Syria has an undeniable strategic importance due to its geographic location, its alliances and its central role in the geopolitical dynamics of the Middle East. It has been a key piece in the Iran-Hezbollah axis, serving as a main conduit for the flow of Iranian weapons and support to Hezbollah in Lebanon. [...] The fall of the Assad regime, presented by the media as a triumph of democracy, has proven to be quite different. […]”

Inside Italy, the group advocates an ultranationalist revolution. On March 7, it posted a poster on its Telegram main channel promoting an April 5 demonstration. The graphic features the group’s bolt logo and images of protesters holding a banner reading “Free all nationalists.” The accompanying comment reads: “Stay tuned to the frequency of the revolution. You will see some beautiful things! April 5.”