Clashes between students and police forces took place this afternoon in Bologna, when the procession of pro-Palestinian collectives tried to advance towards the theater where the opening ceremony of the academic year was taking place. University of Bologna, also at the moment. Minister Anna Maria Bernini. The police, deployed to prohibit access to this area, then intervened to push back the advance of the march. Some of the leading activists were hit with shields and there were even some baton blows, while protesters spat and insulted the police. A few minutes later, further clashes took place when the demonstrators tried to break the police cordon: it was then that a flash charge began, while the demonstrators threw objects such as water bottles and even trash. A person was pinned to the ground by the police then released, reports Ansa. Students chanted slogans such as “The Intifada will always exist” and “UniBo, you must boycott Israel.” The key demand of the collectives – in Bologna as in the rest of the country – is in fact that the university takes a position against the “genocide in Gaza”, in particular by suspending all scientific collaboration with Israeli universities. This is exactly what local activists at the University of Turin asked for and got yesterday. The choice of the Piedmontese university seems to have further motivated the collectives who are mobilizing throughout Italy for actions of solidarity with the Palestinian people, including the university boycott of Israel.
The theory of Young Palestinians
Finally, a delegation of activists was allowed to participate in the opening ceremony of the academic year and some girls from the Young Palestinians of Bologna group were allowed to speak. Waving a Palestinian flag, they attacked Minister Bernini: “She represents a government increasingly aligned with the Zionist genocidal entity, to the point that it is placing itself on the front line in the war mission in the Red Sea against the Houthis and the Yemeni people who heroically support the resistance of the Palestinian people”, declared the young girls, recalling the case of Anan Yaeesh, detained in Italy, who a few days ago still risked extradition to Israel. Yaeesh and others, the young women assert, are “partisans who legitimately resist by all means, including armed struggle against the Zionist occupier.” A right that is also widely recognized by international law and is just and legitimate that a gold medal city for the Resistance demands their immediate release. This passage, reports Ansa, was accompanied by long applause in the public. But immediately afterwards, protests broke out when the two young girls put the university in their sights: “The University of Bologna and its rector have blood on their hands, so much so that in November, when asked for their opinion on a simple ceasefire in Gaza, they refused to do so, invoking an absurd assertion of neutrality. » At that moment, the rector Giovanni Molari interrupted them, accusing them of not respecting the agreements reached, while the demonstrators replied: “Some students outside were beaten with batons”. Molari had instead introduced the speech with “thanks to the police, the prefect, the police commissioner and all those who are responsible for reconciling the expression of legitimate dissent with respect for public order”.
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