Students’ Activism Forces Italian University to Suspend Cooperation with Israel
The University of Milan suspended the deals with Reichman University, local media have reported, quoting the Palestinian Youth Movement and the University Students’ Union on Tuesday regarding the move.
The decision was made as a result of strong pressure put on it by students and faculty members in recent months. The University of Milan suspended its relations with Israel’s Ariel University a few months ago.
Students organized a sit-in on the campus in Milan last spring to protest against the Israeli attacks on Gaza and their university’s cooperation with universities in the occupation state.
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The Israeli regime’s brutal offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed almost 43,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounded at least 100,000 others since October last year. An estimated 11,000 remain missing, presumed dead, under the rubble of their homes and other civilian infrastructure destroyed by Israel. Almost the entire population of Gaza has been displaced amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine.
Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice. It denies all allegations of genocide and war crimes.
Source: Middle East Monitor
