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Italy’s foreign minister slams Israel’s Ben-Gvir over ‘flip-flop’ comments

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 424 words · By Al Jazeera Staff
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Italy’s foreign minister slams Israel’s Ben-Gvir over ‘flip-flop’ comments The row erupted after Italy said it was investigating the far-right minister over his treatment of Gaza flotilla activists.

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What happened

Italy’s foreign minister slams Israel’s Ben-Gvir over ‘flip-flop’ comments The row erupted after Italy said it was investigating the far-right minister over his treatment of Gaza flotilla activists.

Why it matters

Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has called “unacceptable” comments made by Israeli far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir after learning he was being investigated over the treatment of Global Sumud Flotilla activists.

Common ground

“These are unacceptable words that we reject; they are unworthy of a minister,” Tajani said in Italy’s Senate on Tuesday.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has called “unacceptable” comments made by Israeli far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir”
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Multiple independent web search results from different sources (TRT World and other news reports) confirm that Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani condemned Itamar Ben-Gvir's remarks as 'unacceptable'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Antonio Tajani (Italian pronunciation: [anˈtɔːnjo taˈjaːni]; born 4 August 1953) is an Italian politician who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Tajani
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The minister of foreign affairs is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Italy. The office was one of the positions which Italy inherited from the Kingdom of Sardinia where it was the most an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs_(I…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Italian: Ministero degli affari esteri e della cooperazione internazionale; MAECI) is the foreign ministry of the government of the Itali…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_(I…
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Claim 2: “The EU is Israel’s biggest trading partner, accounting for more than 30 percent of Israel’s total trade in goods with the world in 2025.”
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Claim 3: “A widely shared video on social media showed the minister mocking and mistreating activists kneeling on the floor with their hands tied behind their backs in the port of Ashdod”
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The web search results for this specific claim returned generic video platform links (Vidio, Prime Video, Google Videos) and did not provide a specific report or description of the video content mentioned in the claim.
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Claim 4: “Italy’s decision to suspend a defence agreement in April”
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While one web search result for Claim 7 mentions that 'In April, Italy suspended a bilateral defence agreement', no other independent sources were found to corroborate this specific action in the provided evidence.
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Claim 5: “More than 430 activists from dozens of countries were detained by Israeli authorities off the coast of Cyprus last month after being intercepted in international waters as they were trying to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.”
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Multiple independent sources (France 24, TDI, and others) confirm that Israeli authorities intercepted a flotilla off the coast of Cyprus and detained approximately 430 activists.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gaza Freedom Flotilla vessels and convoys have attempted to break the blockade of Gaza since 2010. The first flotilla with six ships was launched by what would then become the Freedom Flotilla Coaliti…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Freedom_Flotilla
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza peace plan, officially the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, is a multilateral agreement between Israel and Hamas that aims to address the ongoing Gaza war and broader Middle Easte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_peace_plan
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the so…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
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Claim 6: “Ben-Gvir had slammed Italy, saying the “land of the boot has become the land of the flip-flop””
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While the specific search results for this claim were polluted with irrelevant content, the search results for Claim 0 explicitly mention that Tajani was responding to Ben-Gvir's 'flip-flop country' insult, confirming the claim's substance.
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Claim 7: “Last month, the EU moved for the first time to impose economic restrictions on violent settlers responsible for human rights abuses in the occupied West Bank.”
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Multiple sources, including Al Jazeera and other reports, confirm that the EU moved to impose economic restrictions on violent settlers in the West Bank.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The West Bank barrier, West Bank wall or the West Bank separation barrier, is a separation barrier built by Israel along the Green Line and inside parts of the West Bank. Israel describes the wall as…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Union (EU) is a supranational union of 27 member states that are party to the EU's founding treaties, and thereby subject to the privileges and obligations of membership. They have agreed…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The West Bank is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up Palestine. A landlocked territory located on the western bank of the Jordan River near the …
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Claim 8: “Germany and Italy are the two remaining European countries that have been blocking a bid to suspend a key trade agreement between the EU and Israel.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results or Wikipedia entries regarding Germany and Italy blocking a trade agreement suspension.
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Claim 9: “According to Italy’s ANSA news agency, the move prompted Italian authorities to open an inquiry into the alleged torture and kidnapping of Italian citizens who were among the activists.”
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Multiple independent reports confirm that Rome prosecutors opened an investigation into Itamar Ben-Gvir regarding the alleged torture and kidnapping of activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla, including Italian citizens.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF; Arabic: أسطول الصمود العالمي, romanized: Usṭūl aṣ-Ṣumūd al-ʿĀlamī), sometimes referred to as the Global Freedom Flotilla (أسطول الحرية العالمي, Usṭūl al-Ḥurriyya al-ʿĀl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Global_Sumud_Flotilla
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Global Sumud Flotilla was a civilian maritime mission organized by the Global Sumud Flotilla and the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) to challenge the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza and deliv…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Global_Sumud_Flotilla
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 Global Sumud Flotilla consisted of 500 participants on more than 40 ships from more than 44 countries, making it the largest civilian-led convoy of its kind in history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_participants_of_the_20…
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Claim 10: “The European Union is considering sanctions on Ben-Gvir for his treatment of activists.”
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The claim is corroborated by Al Jazeera and other web search results stating that the EU is considering sanctions against Ben-Gvir.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Baruch Kopel Goldstein (Hebrew: ברוך קאפל גולדשטיין; born Benjamin Carl Goldstein; December 9, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was an American-Israeli physician and religious extremist who, in 1994, murdere…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Goldstein
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Itamar Ben-Gvir (Hebrew: אִיתָמָר בֶּן גְּבִיר [itaˈmaʁ benˈgviʁ]; born 6 May 1976) is an Israeli politician and lawyer who has served as the minister of national security since 2022, except for a two…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kahanism (Hebrew: [ka.haˈn.izm]; Hebrew: כַּהַנִּיזְם) is a religious Zionist ideology based on the views of Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League and the Israeli political party Kac…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahanism
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Claim 11: “Last week, France also opened an investigation into allegations of war crimes and torture.”
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Two independent web search results confirm that France's National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) opened an investigation into allegations of torture and war crimes related to the treatment of French activists.
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web search NEUTRAL — France's National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) has opened an investigation into allegations of torture and war crimes linked to the treatment of French activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid f…
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web search NEUTRAL — French authorities have launched a preliminary investigation into allegations of “torture” and “war crimes” linked to the treatment of French activists detained by Israel after taking part in a Gaza-b…
https://www.firstpost.com/world/france-launches-war-crimes-p…
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