NOWHERE BORDERS

DIARI DEL CONFLITTO

Closed to Complicity

Bari, 26th September 2026

On September 26, 2026, Bari and Florence took to the streets together to call for the closure of Israel’s honorary consulates in both cities. The mobilization was called by associations, collectives and militant unions. In Bari, the gathering point was Piazza Umberto, at 4:00 p.m.

In the call-out, the organizers present the day as a national signal against the normalization of war and economic ties with Israel. They denounce what they describe as advancing Israeli speculation in Puglia, from the coast to the port of Taranto and military production in Grottaglie, while the government spends billions on arms. They reject “façade solidarity” and ask, besides the closure of the consulates, for the suspension of diplomatic relations and the release of Palestinian prisoners.

The demand concerns an administrative act: the closure of two consular offices.

Demonstrators march along a city street in low late-afternoon light, holding a large white banner that reads "Antisionismo non è antisemitismo"; Palestinian and red flags rise behind them.A police man with grey stubble looks through the grid of a barrier at riot police holding shields marked "POLIZIA".At dusk, two people look back toward the camera on a tree-lined street; behind them the march follows a white banner with sprayed lettering, and a person holds a megaphone.A bald man with a beard sits at the wheel of a white truck, seen through the open cab window; stickers cover the door below.Raised hands reach toward a banner held against a barrier, under black, white and green flags; a police van with a blue light stands behind the fence.Profile portrait of a woman with round glasses, bangs and winged eyeliner, wearing a carriage-shaped earring, among other demonstrators and flags.Sparks streak upward through a dark red haze; the blurred silhouette of a raised arm is visible behind them.At night, a white truck with its headlights on moves along the street, marchers visible behind it; a sign on the windscreen reads "Israel terrorist", flyers on the hood read "Chiudiamo il consolato sionista" in Italian and Arabic, and Palestinian flags fly above.An older man with white hair walks along a night-time sidewalk waving a Palestinian flag, past parked cars and a parking sign.
A raised hand grips the pole of a Palestinian flag in front of a metal mesh barrier; beyond it, a line of riot police in blue helmets.A hand with rings and a small tattoo holds a red-and-white cloth against a barrier knob; riot police in helmets stand on the other side of the mesh.At dusk, a man behind a metal barrier beside a police van holds up a pole with a camera on top; a blue helmet is visible near his legs.A red smoke flare is held up above a banner at the barrier; smoke fills the left of the frame, and a police van with a blue light is visible behind the fence.An Israeli flag on a pole burns in the street; a bearded man in a keffiyeh stands behind it and other demonstrators watch.At night, a Polizia Locale officer in a helmet and glasses, seated on a scooter, turns to look toward the camera; a person with a braid stands out of focus behind.
A woman with a braid and sunglasses looks through a metal mesh barrier at a police van; a man's hand rests on the fence beside her.Seen through metal mesh and window glass layered with reflections, a bearded policeman with glasses sits with his hand at his chin.At night, a man with round sunglasses and a bottle in his hand looks at the camera in front of a flatbed truck carrying a sound system and a banner that begins "Israele terrorista, Italia complice".A man seen from the side, his hand pressed against a metal mesh barrier, faces a line of riot police in blue helmets lit by street lights.A man raised above the crowd waves a Palestinian flag over a metal barrier, with a blue police vehicle behind it; demonstrators in the foreground look on.A hand holds a lit flare that throws sparks and black smoke upward between buildings, next to a metal barrier and a Palestinian flag.A piece of Israeli flag lies on dark asphalt, lit by its own flames.