Italy: Il Giornale Under Attack by Islamists

As we have been reporting in the past day or so, here is the latest from Il Giornale journalist Giulia Sorrentino regarding the Islamist attacks against her, her newspaper, Il Giornale, and her editor-in-chief, Tommaso Cerno. The article is translated by Fousesquawk.

“Cerno is obsessed with Islamists”. Shocking attack by pro-Hamas Piccardo, who celebrates October 7

The noted Islamist who has attacked the editor-in-chief of Il Giornale, is a supporter of Hannoun, Palestinian terrorists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and radical clerics who incite hate toward Jews.

-Giulia Sorrentino   24 January 2026 at 14:29

Editor-in-Chief Tommaso Cerno has become a target of the noted Islamist, Davide Piccardo, editor of the site, La Luce (The Light), who has never shied away from attacks against Cerno and our investigations.  He has done this by dedicating a video to him in addition to previous and innumerable attacks he has shown against him, in which he insults him, maintaining that his journalism is “5th grade style”,  and that he is only obsessed with “seeking attention”  from the Islamic community, besides another series of insults.

But if there is one thing Cerno certainly does not have is obsessions, but a passion for the news he has always published, with courage and determination, without backing down one centimeter and transmitting that to all of his journalists: And in this case, what bothers Piccardo and company is that, according to the accusation, the top of Hamas in Italy, that is Hannoun and his associates, are in prison. And, indeed, Piccardo has not missed any occasion to show his solidarity with these people.

And Il Giornale is inconvenient precisely because in the face of real threats and concrete intimidation, it has not backed off, just like the usual style of its editor-in-chief. As for Piccardo, well, his past speaks for itself: Posts in which he wishes everyone a “happy October 7″, alluding obviously to the day of the massacre committed at the hands of Hamas, already in 2017, we saw him on the streets with a t-shirt depicting the sign of 4-fingers, known as Rabaa, a symbol of solidarity with the Muslim Brotherhood and disseminating citations by Al Banna, the founder of the same movement. The publishing house, La Luce, has also published a book entitled “The Thorns and the Carnation”, by Yahya Sinwar, one of the most well-known Palestinian terrorists, and the mastermind of the attack committed in 2023 by Hamas cut-throats.

Piccardo then defended the Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, convicted a few months ago by a federal tribunal for rape and sexual coercion. He has also taken the side of Tareq Suwaidan, whose entry into Italy was banned by the Ministry of Interior due to his radical positions. The same one who said in the past, as reported by Progetto Dreyfus: “All mothers of the Islamic nation-not just Palestinians- should nourish their children with hate towards Jews. We hate them. They are our enemy. We must instill this in the souls of our children until a new generation grows up and wipes them off the face of the earth…Each of us leaving this room should think of a plan to annihilate Israel.” But according to Piccardo, ” I can say without fear of contradiction that he has never, in any way, supported extremist or violent positions, quite the contrary. I have had the pleasure of meeting him. He suffers this ostracism only due to his anti-Zionist positions in supporting the Palestinian people.” Of course, inciting hate against a people or a religion is not violence.  

Piccardo, who thinks he is giving lessons from on high about who knows what, is still the same person who insults Al Sisi (current Egyptian president) and praises Morsi (supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, ex-president of of Egypt), according to whom, “going to the April 25 demonstration with an Israeli flag means to insult the resistance”, for whom, Mohammad Hannoun is only a victim and not a man accused of having made millions through charity to send money to Hamas, who goes hand in hand with the Turin preacher, Brahim Baya, who praises Sinwar, and together they talk about the political power of the Muslim community. Will someone stop the drift of figures like Davide Piccardo?