Iwould like to ask readers for help. My Italian wife and our six children, aged 10 to 22, believe that Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza and that Italy’s right-wing prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is complicit in this genocide.

I do not.

What should I tell them?

Once again, I am forced to remember how precious truth is – yet how difficult it is to demonstrate. Also, how easy it is to convince people that an untruth is the truth. And yet, at the same time, how easy it is to doubt the truth when all around you are telling you it is an untruth – especially if they are your own family.

Quite obviously, this is terrifying.

Matters came to a head in our house on Friday when there was a one-day general strike in Italy, in which huge numbers of Italians took part – people who believe much

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