Protests, riots and strikes over Gaza have pushed the Italian PM to waver on her principled defence of Israel. Dominic Standishhttps://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/29/will-meloni-give-in-to-the-pro-palestine-mob/Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has been one of the few European leaders not to have lost her head over the war in Gaza. Not only has she refused to give credence to the baseless claim of an Israeli ‘genocide’, she has also made recognising Palestinian statehood conditional on Hamas surrendering. Yet Meloni has never been under more pressure to abandon Israel and back Palestinian statehood unconditionally. Protests and riots were sparked by Italy’s refusal to join other Western countries in recognising a Palestinian state.