The occupants of theUniversity of Turin continue to defend the choice to let the preacher enter the spaces of Palazzo Nuovo, a structure within which the humanistic faculties of the university are located. They demand the transformation of the university into one mosque and they call him “moment of solidarity“. They attack journalists, teachers, the rector, minister Bernini, who have focused on the use of the term “jihad” but they heroically gloss over the violent passages of the sermon Brahim Baya against Israel and its inhabitants. It’s not surprising, it’s the usual victim-centered and accusatory narrative. They point the finger at anyone who criticizes them and shoutIslamophobia and in the meantime they deprive their colleagues of the right to study enshrined in the Constitution, causing enormous damage to the university career of those who attend courses with the aim of building a future for themselves.
“We are absolutely respectful of protests and the free expression of any thought, even the most radical, stinging or most distant from ours, as long as these do not overflow into the violence and do not interfere in the activities of the universities: we cannot transform them into occupied places“, the minister declared this morning Anna Maria Bernini from Trento. “I said very clearly that in universities you cannot do what you want“, continues the head of the department but, above all, he concludes, “we will have to teach that freedom easier to recognize is ours but true freedom is that of others“.
Meanwhile, yesterday the Hon Silvia Sardone, who had presented herself in front of Palazzo Nuovo, in the public spaces in front of the structure, was attacked by pro-Palestine students and the preacher, who had already announced a new prayer at the Polytechnic, was warned. But he is the one who is enjoying the most popularity in this matter, and he certainly doesn’t mind this. Even this evening he will be on TV, guest of the editorialist of Corriere della Sera Massimo Gramellini, who hosts “In altre parole” on La7 on Saturday prime time. A provocation from the journalist to garner some ratings? It’s possible. But in the meantime, the one who within the university spaces has directed arrows, certainly not ones of peace, against Israel, gets a guest spot on TV.
Because everyone is good at talking about peace in front of journalists’ microphones, but then the propaganda begins and that’s when the masks fall. In front of the “faithful” divided by sex by a network, inside an occupied Italian university.
