Sanremo used to spread hate says Israeli ambassador - Politics. Israel's Ambassador to Italy Alon Bar said Sunday that the Sanremo Song Festival had been used tospread hate.

The singer Ghali made an appeal to "Stop Genocide" on the final night of the event on Saturday. Noemi Di Segni, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, said she was disappointed that there had been no "appeal for the release of the hostages in the hands of Hamas"