Students Occupy University in Naples in Solidarity with Palestine

Students affiliated with the C.A.U. (University Self-Organized Collective) and Student Network for Palestine, this morning occupied the rectorate of the University of Naples Federico II. The reasons for the occupation are "to demand that our universities no longer continue to maintain agreements with Israeli universities," the students write in a statement. "Their - the note continues - is not silence: signing contracts with companies like Leonardo is not only ideologically justifying genocide, but also actively contributing to the process of ethnic cleansing that, for 75 years, Israel has been carrying forward." Today, Federico II and its rector Matteo Lorito woke up like this: we decided to take a strong action by occupying the rectorate offices as has already happened in Rome, Turin, Bologna. We are tired of going through our universities while lies are being told, while places of knowledge are being militarized on the one hand - legitimizing a language of war that is more than worrying - and depoliticized," the activists' note. "What is happening in Palestine at this moment carries for us the name of genocide: the Maeci ban, the Med’or foundation, the agreements made between Italy and Israel at an academic, economic, military level represent for us a point of no return regarding the complicity of the academy with Israel's criminal project of erasing the Palestinian people," the activists continue.