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Historian of Italy, Europe editor @jacobin, columnist @NewStatesman. My latest book is ‘Mussolini’s Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy’

Jul 27, 2022, 13 tweets

The many occasions Giorgia Meloni promoted great replacement theory. A thread. 1/

This is a classic expression of all elements of the theory, together: "the project of ethnic substitution of European citizens, desired by big capital and international speculators", as facilitated by Italian liberals in the EU 2/

Attacks "emissaries" of Soros, "the financier giving global support and finance to mass immigration and the plan for ethnic substitution". (Fd'I social media called him a "usurer") wired.it/attualita/poli…)

Faced with falling birthrates, Meloni alleges that "left-wing" governments' response was to "finance the invasion to replace Italians with immigrants and gift citizenship through ius soli" (i.e. citizenship for immigrants' children born in Italy) 4/

2020, the soft version. Faced with the pandemic, the Left exploits the crisis to substitute the Italian workforce with low-cost immigrant labour 5/

One that has been widely shared the last few days, from 20 June 2017. She speaks of "a plan for ethnic substitution" at a rally against granting citizenship to migrants' children: 6/

2019: Why don't NGOs care about bringing Venezuelan immigrants to Italy? Because there is a "plan to bring in people different from our identity" 7/

Another Soros one, 2019, "I believe there is a design to use illegal immigration to push down workers' rights and wages. Soros isn't a philanthropist but an international speculator" 8/

"I think that there is a plan to erase everything that identifies us: culture, Nation, family are under attack" 9/

From her Facebook: "Dress rehearsals for ethnic substitution in Italy" 10/

"What we have seen in Italy — 500,000 immigrants in three years — is, here, too, a planned, willed invasion ... the reason they bring [them] in is to have a cheap workforce for big capital ... It's called ethnic substitution, and we won't allow it"
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Praises Viktor Orbán's attacks on "communists and those who want to destroy our European and Christian identity with uncontrolled mass immigration. Like the current Italian government", referring to Giuseppe Conte's Five Star/Democrat coalition in 2019 /12

"The UN Migration Compact serves those who have used irregular migration to achieve financial speculation's grand plan to strip nations and peoples of their identity — because when you've no roots you’re a slave, and when you're a slave, you serve Soros's interests" December 2018

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