A group of university students and activists entered the Rectorate of the University of Turin this morning, entering the room where a meeting of the Academic Senate was being held. Session suspended, parade of Palestinian flags and banners, and professors and university directors forced to listen to the declarations of representatives of the collectives before being able to resume their work. At the center of the protest by the pro-Palestinian groups “Cambiare Rotta” and “Progetto Palestina”, in particular the agreements in force between the University of Turin and various Israeli universities, within the framework of the general scientific cooperation agreement in force between the two Villages. . “During the Israeli Apartheid Week launched by BDS, we carry our demands and our unconditional solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance: we boycott the hawkish agreements which announce the massacres and the devastation which are occurring between our university, Israel and the big war multinationals! “, we read in the press release published by “Cambiare Rotta”.
Once entering the premises via Verdi, the students then asked the rector of the University of Turin Stefano Geuna to sign the letter sent in recent days to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to request the suspension of the industrial, scientific cooperation agreement and technology between Italian and Israeli universities and research centers. An estimated 1,600 academics have already signed an appeal, including 60 from the University of Turin: “Israeli universities have an active role in the oppression of the Palestinian people, they are physically part of the occupation, because the university of Ariel is located inside an illegal settlement in the West Bank, and at the end of February the Maeci announced a call for joint research projects: it is not difficult to imagine for what purposes they will be used. accuse the activists. Having finished their imposed gathering at the Academic Senate, the members of the collectives then left the Rector's room, but not before having obtained an appointment with the Rector on this subject that day.
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