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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 4:01:20 GMT -7
![https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/NOS_logo.svg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/NOS_logo.svg) NOS News• today, 08:02 •Adapted today, 11:29
University of Amsterdam will no longer enter into discussions with activists: 'Only with our own people'
Vandalism inside the university by Pro-Palestinian protesters, whom later on monday were removed by the Amsterdam riot police After the Amsterdam Riot Police ME ended the occupation of the university building by Pro-Palestinian demonstrators and professional activists and agitators of Samidoun and Revolutionaire Eenheid (Revolutionary Unit). Samidoun is lined to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).Links:samidoun.net/ revolutionaireeenheid.nl/The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will no longer enter into discussions with activists after new disturbances at the university yesterday, in which the UvA building was not spared. This is what Geert ten Dam, chairwoman of the UvA Executive Board, said in the NOS Radio 1 Journaal on NPO Radio 1. NPO Radio 1 is a public-service radio channel in the Netherlands, and is part of the Netherlands Public Broadcasting, NPO. It featured mostly news, talk, and sport programming with a variety of music (from classic hits to oldies to adult contemporary to ethnic music).
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The morning broadcasts are presented by Astrid Kersseboom (the woman left on the photo). She is joined in the studio by regular newsreader Wouter Walgemoed, who is responsible for the bulletins. The program also has permanent speakers, including Tom van 't Hek for sports topics. On Saturday the NOS Radio 1 Journaal is presented by Fleur Wallenburg.
"We will continue the discussions, but we will do so with our own people and within our normal, regular consultation structure," Ten Dam explains. "We will no longer talk to activists and we will no longer sit around the table with people who wear face-covering clothing. We only did that last week in an ultimate attempt to de-escalate." 'Walkout'Around 11 a.m. yesterday there was a peaceful work stoppage in the UvA building on Roeterseiland, in protest against the war in Gaza and the breaking up of student protests last week.
When this so-called "walk-out" ended, some of the demonstrators remained behind. According to the university, new people joined the group, including people dressed in black and masked. That group entered the building and caused significant destruction, after which a report was filed. The riot police eventually intervened.
"This is unprecedented, shocking and completely unacceptable," Ten Dam responds in disbelief. "I thought the worst thing, besides all the destruction, was that employees fled in haste. That's terrible." She describes how employees ran away in panic. Demonstrators try to block entrance doors of the university of Amsterdam with furniture![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwSOzmAWYAIqI_m.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwSOzmAWYAIqI_m.jpg) ![https://image.parool.nl/231170971/width/2480/studenten-en-medewerkers-hielden-dinsdag-een-deel-van-het-uv-a-gebouw](https://image.parool.nl/231170971/width/2480/studenten-en-medewerkers-hielden-dinsdag-een-deel-van-het-uv-a-gebouw) A Demonstrator sits on a stairs between the furniture and other material from inside the Amsterdam university building which was thrown outside on the street.Focused on us'The masked people who entered the building reached the sixth floor, where the University of Amsterdam (UVA) board is located. "We cannot escape the impression that it was aimed at us," acknowledges Ten Dam. She explains that the board was not present, "but otherwise we would have fled too."
Following Monday's disturbances, the UvA has decided to keep almost all buildings closed on Tuesday and Wednesday. Ten Dam is discussing today how to proceed. "At this time we cannot guarantee the safety of our students and employees. That is always priority number one for us." The board of the University of AmsterdamStudents feel unsafeThe chairman cannot yet say anything about the damage. However, she is receiving more and more signals that students no longer feel safe at the university due to all the protests. "That's very sad. I hear sounds like: 'Is this still my university?' We try to respond to that as best we can."
She assures that despite all the disturbances and the closing of the doors, the study is not jeopardized for anyone. The university is ready to assist students, Ten Dam emphasizes. Overnight stays in other cities
In Nijmegen, Groningen, Eindhoven and Maastricht, pro-Palestinian demonstrators spent the night in tents they had set up at universities. As far as we know, these actions are peaceful.
The night passed quietly in all cities and several dozen demonstrators slept outside. It is not yet known how long the demonstrators will be allowed to stay.
In Groningen, the triangle (municipality, police and Public Prosecution Service) announced yesterday that the demonstrators will be allowed to stay for the time being, as long as the accessibility of the university is not at risk.![https://cdn.prod.elseone.nl/uploads/2024/05/ANP-497815591-scaled-e1715166383163-1200x711.jpg?1](https://cdn.prod.elseone.nl/uploads/2024/05/ANP-497815591-scaled-e1715166383163-1200x711.jpg?1) Hate club Samidoun, which called on the European Parliament to "defeat Europe, the US and Israel with 'Kalashnikovs, rockets and bullets'" and co-organized the barbaric orgy of violence in Israel on October 7, is now also represented at the @uva_Amsterdam.
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Post by Jaga on May 14, 2024 4:04:18 GMT -7
Pieter, thanks for sharing pictues of protests in Amsterdam. They even made a press in the US. I wish they could help to solve a situation in the Middle East.
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 4:07:35 GMT -7
6 months ago #Amsterdam #Central #demonstration In the hall of Amsterdam Central Station, people held a sit-in for Palestine on November 7 2023. The participants sat on the ground to make their voices heard against the bombings in Gaza.
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 4:28:44 GMT -7
15 November 2023 - Schiphol Airport Amsterdam
Amsterdam University; 13 May 2024
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 4:30:15 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 4:31:03 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 4:40:46 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 4:41:38 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 4:42:42 GMT -7
Amsterdam 3 months ago
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 4:45:40 GMT -7
Amsterdam 2 years ago
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 4:58:49 GMT -7
The Center for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI) is an information center and lobby organization in the Hague (Netherlands) focused on the interests of Israel and Jews in the Netherlands. The spearheads are the position of the State of Israel and of Jews worldwide and the fight against anti-Semitism. The means it uses to achieve this include maintaining contacts with politicians and policymakers, distributing information through various media, its own website, public meetings and publishing teaching materials for schools. CIDI also provides guided information trips to Israel and Auschwitz for various target groups.University demonstrations blow over from AmericaIN ISRAEL / By: CIDI / May 10, 2024Following the example of the United States, where various campuses throughout the country were occupied by pro-Palestine demonstrators, the first university demonstrations also appeared in the Netherlands at the beginning of this week. The Roeterseiland campus of the University of Amsterdam had the dubious honor of being the first to take the initiative. What followed were an intense few days.
On Monday evening, the riot police cleared the Roeterseiland campus, a few hours after riots broke out between demonstrators and a group of Jewish youth. This led to great anger among students and teachers. A day later, anti-Israel demonstrators occupied the club next to the Oudemanhuispoort. They demanded that the University of Amsterdam release a list of collaborations with Israeli universities, which the university did, and that those ties be severed.
The university entered into discussions with the demonstrators - as it turned out, some were masked during this meeting and the rector magnificus did not even know who exactly he had in front of him. What he said he knew for sure last night in Nieuwsuur is that they were all UvA students. However, it was not clear how exactly he came to know this. In any case, he indicated in the same interview that ties with Israeli universities will not be severed.
Samidoun, the terrorist organization banned in Germany, was also involved in the protests at the UvA: Nieuwsuur interviewed activist Jacob Bodden, only stating that he was a 'student'. The protests attracted all kinds of activists, many of whom had nothing to do with the UvA or were not even studying at all. For example, PFLP member and Masar Badil leader Mohammad Khatib spoke to the protesters on Roeterseiland and urged them that “this movement must be an anti-police movement.” He added that it is also a movement for “the liberation of the Netherlands” and that “Zionism will be defeated.”
![https://www.telegraaf.nl/images/535x301/filters:format(jpeg):quality(50)/cdn-kiosk-api.telegraaf.nl/7f9b7164-0d2f-11ef-9ee2-02d1dbdc35d1.jpg](https://www.telegraaf.nl/images/535x301/filters:format(jpeg):quality(50)/cdn-kiosk-api.telegraaf.nl/7f9b7164-0d2f-11ef-9ee2-02d1dbdc35d1.jpg) The Dutch Samidoun activist Jacob Bodden
Mohammed Khatib is a Palestinian lawyer and board member of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee (PSCC)
![https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Sticker_freedom_for_Abdallah_in_Brussels.jpg/1920px-Sticker_freedom_for_Abdallah_in_Brussels.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Sticker_freedom_for_Abdallah_in_Brussels.jpg/1920px-Sticker_freedom_for_Abdallah_in_Brussels.jpg) Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (Arabic: جورج إبراهيم عبدالله) (born 2 April 1951) is a Lebanese communist militant and the longest held prisoner in Europe. He is currently serving a life sentence in Lannemezan jail in France for the murder of the assistant military attaché Charles R. Ray of the US embassy in Paris and Yacov Bar-Simantov, the second secretary of Israel's embassy in France.
![https://i0.wp.com/samidoun.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/gia.jpg?w=640&ssl=1](https://i0.wp.com/samidoun.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/gia.jpg?w=640&ssl=1) Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a “Lebanese revolutionary,” in the words of his support campaign, has been imprisoned in France for 34 years. He is now incarcerated in Lannemezan prison. His period of unconditional imprisonment ended in 1999, when he became eligible for release. Born in a Christian family, this Lebanese from Kobayat, in northern Lebanon, is now 67. In 1979, he co-founded the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, a small Marxist anti-imperialist group which claimed the execution of an American military attaché, Charles Ray, in Paris, and of an Israeli diplomat, Yacov Barsimentov, in Boulogne-Billancourt while Lebanon was invaded by the Israeli army. He was arrested in Lyon on 24 October 1984 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987. During his trial in Lyon, in 1987, he was found guilty of complicity in these assassinations. The former teacher declared before his judges: “I am a fighter, not a criminal.” “The path I have followed has been imposed on me by the human rights abuses perpetrated against Palestinians”, he added. Abdallah was sentenced in 1987 to life imprisonment during a hearing, according the French legal system.
In the meantime, many teachers also supported the demonstrators. Jewish students no longer felt safe to go to college. The demonstrators spent the night on the Binnengasthuis site and were not removed by the police. A support campaign was organized in Delft on Tuesday for students in Amsterdam. This action was voluntarily ended at the end of the day.
In Utrecht, the courtyard of the university library was occupied during Tuesday afternoon. The occupiers demanded an academic boycott of Israel. The occupation came to an end during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday due to police deployment, at the request of the university board. The police removed about fifty students from the university grounds. The next day there were large demonstrations on the Drift and in front of the Academy Building on Domplein. CIDI was present there and was interviewed by Nieuwsuur.
The occupation of the Binnengasthuis grounds and the Oudemanssteeg by the police was ended on Wednesday evening. The demonstrators then moved to Rokin, where riots also broke out. Ammonia was thrown at police officers and one officer suffered hearing damage. The material damage is also significant.
In the meantime, Erasmus University has already provided insight into its collaborations with Israeli organizations. A message was sent to students on Wednesday evening. Severing ties with Israeli institutions is not yet an option, the board said. This immediately led to an announced demonstration to take place on May 16. The students demand 'apartheid-free education'.
So the genie doesn't seem to be going back in the bottle for the time being. In the meantime, an emergency debate has started in the Amsterdam city council, which can be followed live here.
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 5:32:57 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 5:35:13 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 5:36:32 GMT -7
Dec 8, 2017
The man held for the destruction of an Israeli restaurant on the Amstelveenseweg has made a full confession. He said he had no anti-Semitic motive, but acted out of desperation about the situation in Palestine. Willem van Vliet, the suspect's lawyer, confirms reports from Het Parool about this. He denies that his client was involved in terrorism. 'In fact, he states that according to his religion it is strictly forbidden to do violence to people. He says he only wishes that everyone, including Palestinians, can make use of the rights that come to everyone. "He has said that he acted out of desperation," the lawyer added. 'He wanted to draw attention to the current situation in Palestine.' The perpetrator is a Palestinian who has been living in Amsterdam for several years with a temporary residence permit. Van Vliet says that his client acted out of desperation about the 'inhumane daily situation in Palestine, in his opinion'. The suspect is still in custody. He is suspected of vandalism and stealing an Israeli flag from the business.
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 5:40:29 GMT -7
Jewish woman severely assaulted over Israeli flag in Amsterdam (31 jul 2014)
She was attacked by Pro-Palestinian people. She said that she felt unsafe and that her 'Freedom of speech' was taken away from her.
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