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A mural in the northern Italian city of Milan depicting Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or being seized from the Nova music festival on October 7th is now hidden beneath white paint.
It had been on display for less than a month.
Israeli Ambassador to Italy Jonathan Peled said in a November 9 post on X that the act “reveals the disturbing face of antisemitism.”
Artist aleXsandro Palombo created the work for the third anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel.
Peled wrote that the move was an “attempt to rewrite the memory of that tragedy.”
“Remembering the victims is a duty that cannot be silenced,” he added.
In November 2024, vandals erased the faces of Holocaust survivors Liliana Segre and Sami Modiano from a Palombo mural. In May 2025, much of the paint was stripped from The Jewish Simpsons Deported to Auschwitz, his mural at Milan’s Shoah Memorial, and the surviving image bore the red slogan “Free Pal.” Palombo called that vandalism “antisemitic fury” at the time.
Palombo’s mural of Shiri Bibas and her sons, Kfir and Arile, was defaced twice in two weeks in late 2025. Hamas terrorists took Shiri, her husband Yarden Bibas, and their sons hostage from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023. Shiri and the boys were murdered in Hamas captivity. Yarden, who was held separately and tortured, was later released. He is the only surviving member of his immediate family.
In July 2026, vandals also targeted Palombo’s Milan mural of Anne Frank and Primo Levi, painting over the inscription “Memory is no longer enough” and scrawling “Coloni Sionisti Nazisti,” Italian for “Zionist Nazi settlers.”
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