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Webinar by Francesca Albanese in schools, Valditara launches inspections: 'Crime hypothesis'

According to the chairman of the Chamber's Culture and Education Commission, 11,000 students are involved

by Lorenzo Pace

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Translated by AI
Versione italiana

2' min read

Translated by AI
Versione italiana

Make sure that the statements made by Francesca Albanese in schools are true because, if so, they 'could constitute possibilities of crime'.

This is what the Minister of Education and Merit Giuseppe Valditara, who has asked the competent bodies to initiate inspections for the webinars held by the UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories in some institutes in Tuscany, is checking.

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Valditara: "Reality check and school accountability"

Valditara said he had 'read in the press that the rapporteur had made statements that, if proven, could constitute criminal offences. The inspections aim to verify the reality of the facts and the possible responsibility of the school bodies involved

Francesca Albanese's webinars

It consists of three virtual meetings - with students from lower and upper secondary schools - as part of the project Teachers for Gaza. The modalities, as explained, are divided into two points: a guided reading of the text "Quando il mondo dorme" by Francesca Albanese and a meeting with the author.

The project, he explains, "proposes to enrich the cultural landscape of Italian students, offering an authentic and in-depth perspective on Palestine through direct contact with experts. The main objective is to overcome stereotypes and prejudices of a reality often reduced to superficial media simplifications, promoting intercultural understanding and critical thinking, and the development of transversal skills through an interdisciplinary approach'.

"More than 11 thousand students participated"

After the first reports, the President of the Culture and Education Commission of the Chamber of Deputies Federico Mollicone (FdI) said that 'more and more schools have joined the webinar organised by "Teachers for Gaza" with the intervention, and the promotion of her books, by Francesca Albanese'. The estimate, for Mollicone, would be more than 11 thousand students who participated.

"Were the families," he added, "aware of their children's participation in these webinars? We will submit, together with our colleagues who have already denounced specific cases in their colleges' schools, a question to Minister Valditara to shed full light on this initiative.

M5S: "Operation reeks of propaganda"

"We have no certainties as to what Francesca Albanese said," the Five Star Movement wrote in a note, "we will see what emerges and whether there is any responsibility. However, this sudden operation by Giuseppe Valditara reeks, once again, of propaganda masquerading as institutional zeal. If an inspection were really needed, perhaps it would be more urgent to do it in all those schools used in recent years as political catwalks for Valditara-style election campaigns. Or in those where the Pnrr works, which arrived thanks to Giuseppe Conte, are still at a standstill due to the mismanagement of this government'.

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