There are proposals and efforts by the political left to return to the days of hatred against persons of Italian descent. Italian immigrants and their descendants faced some of the worst discrimination of any group in American history. The left’s return to a policy of Italophobia is most visibly apparent in their attempt to cancel America’s most prominent Italian American, Christopher Columbus, and replace honoring his memory with an indigenous people’s day.
Oppose V.P. Harris and Italophobia. Support Columbus Day!
Some notes here. First, some of this historical Italophobia you mention appears to be connected to anti-Catholicism: Irish immigrants were also subjected to discrimination, and Italy and Ireland were both predominantly Catholic during the 19th century when much of this occurred.
Second, I agree that Columbus Day should remain under this name at least for the time being. There are some theories involving the Knights Templar and their successor organizations that need to be looked into in more detail that could affect what we know about Columbus and his discovery, but at this point, evidence as to these theories is not yet well enough known that it ought have any impact on the matter. As for the current move by the left to rename the day, it is based on ill-motive, itself an attempt to incite racism and division, and should therefore be rejected.
Third, something should be done to address the “Columbus Misnomer” and the linguistic ambiguity it has caused. I have heard that there is a lack of a broad consensus on how to handle the misnomer itself, but there is a way to resolve the ambiguity without directly addressing the misnomer: India could request that Anglophone nations refer to it by its endonym of Bharat. A recent move by Turkiye creates precedent for this request and for granting it. Although this action in and of itself would technically fall outside of the scope of this forum, the act of granting this request were it to be made does not: the USA is an Anglophone nation.