Day of Revenge

{{Short description|Libyan holiday currently named Friendship Day}}

The Day of Revenge ({{Langx|ar|يوم الانتقام}} Yūm al-Intiqāmi) was a Libyan holiday celebrating the expulsion of Italians from Libyan soil in 1970. Some sources also claim that the 1948–67 departure of Libyan Jews was also celebrated.{{Cite book|last=Wells|first=Audrey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W2VXEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA35|title=The Importance of Forgiveness and the Futility of Revenge: Case Studies in Contemporary International Politics|date=2022-01-01|publisher=Springer Nature|isbn=978-3-030-87552-7|language=en}}

It was canceled in 2004 after Silvio Berlusconi apologized for Italian colonization in Libya, but reintroduced the next year.{{cite book |last1=Albahari |first1=Maurizio |title=Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World's Deadliest Border |date=2015 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-0-8122-9172-8 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.9783/9780812291728-003/html |language=en |chapter=Genealogies of Rescue and Pushbacks|doi=10.9783/9780812291728-003 }}{{cite book |last1=Paoletti |first1=Emanuela |title=The Migration of Power and North-South Inequalities: The Case of Italy and Libya |date=2010 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-0-230-29928-3 |pages=107–138 |language=en |chapter=Historical Background on the Agreements between Italy and Libya}}{{cite book |last1=John |first1=Ronald Bruce St |title=Historical Dictionary of Libya |date=2014 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8108-7876-1 |page=175 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xIrOAwAAQBAJ&dq=Day+of+revenge+libya&pg=PA175 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Wells |first1=Audrey |title=The Importance of Forgiveness and the Futility of Revenge: Case Studies in Contemporary International Politics |date=2022 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-030-87552-7 |page=35 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W2VXEAAAQBAJ&q=Day+of+revenge+libya |language=en}} Later, it was renamed the Day of Friendship because of improvement in Italy–Libya relations.{{cite journal |last1=Zoubir |first1=Yahia H. |title=Libya and Europe: Economic Realism at the Rescue of the Qaddafi Authoritarian Regime |journal=Journal of Contemporary European Studies |date=2009 |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=401–415 [403, 411] |doi=10.1080/14782800903339354|s2cid=153625134 }}{{cite journal |last1=Brambilla |first1=Chiara |title=Shifting Italy/Libya Borderscapes at the Interface of EU/Africa Borderland: A "Genealogical" Outlook from the Colonial Era to Post-Colonial Scenarios |journal=ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies |date=2014 |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=220–245 |url=https://www.acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1005 |language=en |issn=1492-9732}}{{cite book |last1=Van Genugten |first1=Saskia |title=Libya in Western Foreign Policies, 1911–2011 |date=2016 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-1-137-48950-0 |pages=127–146 |language=en |chapter=Reconciliation and Fighting Islamic Extremism Together}}