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Anti-Israel Incidents Shock Italian Universities: 'Zionist' Prof. Beaten, Israeli Lec

Pro-Palestinian activists disrupted lectures at University of Pisa and Polytechnic University of Turin, leading to assaults and suspension of an Israeli-linked professor's course, officials said.

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Two anti-Israel incidents rocked Italian academia in a single day: A professor in Pisa was assaulted after being labeled a 'Zionist,' while an Israeli guest lecturer in Turin was suspended after defending the IDF

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Pini Zorea, professor of the Israeli University of Braude, guest lecturer of a doctoral course of the Politecnico di Torino, defended during the lesson l'Idf defining him as the cleanest army in the world.

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Contested by Pro Pal students during his doctoral class, the teacher Pini Zorea defends his country's army. Rector Corgnati: 'Collaboration immediately interrupted'

·Turin, Italy
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"I served in the Israeli army and I can tell you it's among the cleanest in the world." Thus Pini Zorea, a professor at Braude University in Israel and visiting lecturer on a doctoral program at the Polytechnic University of Turin, defended the actions of the Israeli armed forces during a lecture interrupted by a student protest. The professor's words prompted an immediate reaction from Rector Stefano Corgnati, who ordered the interruption of th…

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TURIN – "The cleanest army in the world"—these are the words used by Professor Pini Zorea, a professor at the Israeli University of Braude and guest lecturer on a doctoral program at the Polytechnic University, during a lecture defending the IDF. The Turin university harshly condemned the course, immediately clarifying that it teaches the program exclusively, without any collaboration with the University of Israel.

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La Repubblica broke the news in Turin, Italy on Tuesday, September 16, 2025.
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