(AFP) A public Roman university, La Sapienza, said Friday it had cancelled a pro-Palestinian student group’s event to present a book written by the slain leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.
The presentation by the Palestinian Student Movement was due to take place on March 5, presenting “The Thorns and the Carnation” by Sinwar, published by Italian independent publishers Editori della Luce.
La Sapienza, one of the oldest and largest universities in the world with 150,000 students, said Friday it had revoked its permission to hold the presentation.
The student group had billed the upcoming presentation as “an important opportunity to deepen the understanding of the Palestinian question and the dynamics that are determining the genocide in Gaza and the ongoing ethnic cleansing in the rest of Palestine.”
