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A place in the sun, the storm explodes for a sentence: "Jackals, there are two…"

Of all the programs, films, dramas and TV series that fill the schedule of Italian generalist television, the last thing one might expect to be a controversy over the language is Un Posto Al Sole. A comforting eve, for families who have been dating Italians for years Loved North and South and enjoys great success in terms of proportion. And yet even the Neapolitan soap ran into a blip. Indeed, during the March 20 episode, an anti-Semitic verdict was pronounced, sparking a hornet’s nest of controversy. The scene is as follows: the character of Silvia Graziani is hesitant and undecided about a possible proposal for her Caffè Vulcano, now in a clear economic crisis. In his indecisiveness, Father Othello gives Silvia some advice, saying a completely inappropriate phrase: “You were wrong to trust someone like that… Alberto Palladini that’s like Ferri: That’s two rabbis, two jackals.” A joke that sparked widespread outrage on social media and sparked screams of scandal.

The writers of the popular Soap Italian, Rai and the Fremantle production immediately attempted to add fuel to the fire, clarifying that the word wasn’t “rabbis” but “vampires,” in an exchange that was as misleading as it was dangerous. Misunderstanding confirmed by the Jewish Documentation Center of Milan, which attacked Un posto al sole for the miserly rabbi stereotype: “A cursory listening to the offending scene led our office to report the episode on the website.

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Upon closer inspection, which was also verified with the show’s scriptwriters, we were able to determine that the word – indeed fuzzy and difficult to interpret – “vampires‘ and not, as misspelled, ‘Rabbis’. We are sure that anti-Semitism and the inappropriate use of expressions related to the Jewish religion are alien to broadcast culture.” Fortunately, the crisis is over. Unless the Italian association Friends of Dracula also intervenes indignantly…

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