Pro-Palestine demonstrations continue across Italy while an increasing number of Italian universities are voicing their firm opposition to Israel’s massacres in Gaza and the West Bank through boycott campaigns.
Earlier this week, the University of Palermo severed ties with Israeli researchers and universities over the genocidal war on Gaza.
The Palermo University’s academic senate suspended an EU student exchange program with Tel Aviv, while announcing that measures aiming to support the Palestinian education system will be taken.
Some university deans and professors have always shown a great interest in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Some other less involved academics have been pressed by their students to take a strong position against Israel.
In the past, protests against Israel’s brutal occupation were held in university campuses, but never to today’s extent.
This time Israel has gone way too far.
And this has led to a realization among students that something more had to be done.
Enzo Brandi, Former Nuclear Science Researcher
Also Turin University’s academic senate has recently opted not to take part in a call for scientific cooperation with Israel, issued earlier this year, in protest of the skyrocketing number of civilian deaths caused by Israel in Gaza.
Hundreds of university staff in Pisa, Bari, Rome, and, Florence, have asked the university administrations to uphold the fundamental values of humanity and solidarity in the face of the “repugnant massacre that is taking place in the Gaza Strip.”
Students at a number of prominent Italian university campuses have set up encampments in solidarity with Palestinians and in protest against Israel’s brutal attacks on Gaza.
