Genuine Italian?

JOE Piscopo and Chazz Palminteri have rescinded their acceptance of an invitation to attend Mayor de Blasio’s salute to ItalianAmerican heritage Thursday. They are boycotting to protest the mayor’s panel charged with identifying monuments on public grounds deemed “oppressive and inconsistent with the values of NYC.” Piscopo has been a fierce advo- cate of making sure the Christopher Columbus statue at Columbus Circle stays.

“If he thinks he is going to remove the Columbus statue, he will have to break through a wall of impenetrable Italian brothers and sisters from all five boroughs,” Piscopo said.