Noemi Di Segni, the president of the
Union of Italian Jewish Communities, on Monday sounded the alarm
about manifestations of antisemitism at universities, amid the
war in Gaza sparked by the October 7 massacres by Hamas in
Israel.
It comes after Turin University's Senate decided not to take
part in a scientific tender with Israel in protest at the
civilian deaths in Gaza, after pro-Palestinian leftwing
collectives occupied the building, and La Repubblica editor
Maurizio Molinari was de-platformed at a Naples university on
Friday.
"Every red line has now been crossed and concern about the
university situation is overflowing," Di Segni told ANSA.
She called on Premier Giorgia Meloni, Higher Education and
Research Minister Anna Maria Bernini and the Conference of
Italian University Rectors (CRUI) to "ensure that the
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition on
anti-Semitism is fully implemented by all Italian universities,
making it abundantly clear that all forms of boycott and
demonization are antisemitism.
"The Italian university system cannot give in disruption".
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