Bernini stressed the decision “falls within the university’s autonomy”, but added “I consider it a wrong choice, especially at a time when the political-diplomatic process of peace, of searching for peace, is intensifying.
“Universities should not take sides,” she said during her visit to the Università Politecnica delle Marche Le Torrette in Ancona.
“Universities do not go to war, they are bridge builders, peace makers, they are great factories of scientific diplomacy.”
The move comes in the wake of series of protests and occupations at Italian universities against institutions having relations with Israeli ones.
There have also been calls for boycotts, which have led Italy’s Jewish community to sound the alarm about anti-Semitism in the world of higher education.
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