Italy's Jews warn of antisemitic drift in universities

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 20 - 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".
    (ANSA).