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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 5:45:37 GMT -7
Amsterdam is a city with a large Muslim migrant community, the Dutch Jewish community, Israeli expats, foreign jews from Poland, Russia, Hungary, America, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Morocco, South Africa and Ukraine living, working and studying there. And it is a city with a lot of other ethnicities, religions, political groups and etc. Sometimes that creates tensions between groups and in the sense of the present 2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war in Gaza tensions between from one side leftist Pro-Palestinian native Dutch students, Palestinians and Moroccans and on the others side Dutch Jews, some Israeli's in the Netherlands and some Pro-Israeli rightwing Dutch groups runs high. There is also a tension today between Pro Palestinian protesters and the Dutch Riot Police, the ME.
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 5:47:55 GMT -7
31 aug 2023 A new campaign is calling for the immediate release of a Palestinian community leader, who is involved in humanitarian work in the Middle East, from prison in the Netherlands.
Amin Abu Rashed was detained by Dutch authorities on 22 June, with Israeli media saying that he was part of the “large-scale financing” of Hamas.
His lawyer says there is little evidence against Abu Rashed, and that they are working on a report calling for his release from detention until his trial.
Abu Rashed, a father of two, has repeatedly denied claims that he works for Hamas, which is considered a terrorist organisation in the Netherlands and the European Union.
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 5:48:54 GMT -7
Netherlands: Pro-Palestine Rally Demands War Crime Prosecutions At The Hague | October 29, 2023
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 13:21:16 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 13:27:55 GMT -7
May 14, 2024
You have to look carefully if you want to see anything from the demonstrations on Roeterseiland yesterday. The peace around campus is in stark contrast to yesterday's demonstration. Yet today there are several people who come to take a look. "I expected it to be worse"
The walk-out" At 11 a.m., students and employees walked out of the Roeterseiland UvA building in protest against the war in Gaza. Some of the demonstrators remained in the building and others, dressed in black and masked, entered the building. .I came back to get my bike. I had gotten into the conflict and I was still in the building and unable to pick up my bike.
A few lost bicycles and students having lunch mark the peace here on Roeterseiland today: Following the demonstration yesterday in and around the UvA building, the university is closed for two days.
International student: I think it is a shame, as international I paid so much. But I think they should think why this happened. The demonstration started yesterday with a walk out, organized by UVA teachers and students. Thousands of people gathered around the water to listen to speeches delivered from the bridge.
The demonstration got out of hand when a group of demonstrators decided to enter the university building, set up tents there and caused several vandalisms.
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 15:10:29 GMT -7
Pro-Palestinian activists dragged from the Dutch House of Representatives (April 2024)
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 15:26:46 GMT -7
Bizarre scenes during historical indictment against 'Israel' at the International Court of Justice
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 15:35:53 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 15:37:08 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 15:49:29 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• yesterday, 6:04 PMMan arrested for vandalism in University of Amsterdam building during pro-Palestinian protestThe police have arrested someone because of the vandalism committed yesterday on the Roeterseiland campus of the University of Amsterdam. The arrest took place on Dam Square last night, a police spokesperson confirmed.
After a peaceful pro-Palestinian demonstration on the campus, some of the demonstrators entered the ABC building of the University of Amsterdam and caused destruction there. They also barricaded entrances and exits.
The occupation ended at the end of the afternoon, but the police did not arrest anyone. This was partly because most of the perpetrators of violence were masked and therefore unrecognizable, the police said yesterday.Public violenceThe man who was now arrested was later recognized and arrested. He is suspected of public violence.
The police have started an investigation into the violence surrounding yesterday's and last week's demonstrations. Witnesses are called to share footage. DeclarationFollowing the violence, the University of Amsterdam reported trespassing and vandalism. The university board has decided to keep all buildings closed at least today and tomorrow, because safety cannot be guaranteed.
It is not yet clear whether the university will reopen on Thursday. "We are discussing how we can open as quickly as possible," reads an internal email sent to employees today.
This assessment is made in consultation with, among others, the police and the Public Prosecution Service. "We will only open if we can guarantee the safety of our employees and students." A group of 30 black-clad, masked men hunted for members of the board of the University of Amsterdam, who were on the fifth floor of the occupied building. These black-clad, masked men were certainly not students.
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Post by pieter on May 14, 2024 19:05:21 GMT -7
The destruction inside the university building of the University of Amsterdam occupied by Radical Pro Palestine activists and university students can be clearly seen here.
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Post by pieter on May 15, 2024 2:17:36 GMT -7
Femke Halsema Femke Halsema (GreenLeft), mayor of Amsterdam, responds to the student protests at the University of Amsterdam that led to harsh confrontations between police and demonstrators this week.
Femke Halsema (pronounced [ˈfɛmkə ˈɦɑlsəmaː] ⓘ; born 25 April 1966) is a Dutch politician and filmmaker. On 27 June 2018, she was appointed Mayor of Amsterdam and began serving a six-year term on 12 July 2018. She is the first woman to hold the position on a non-interim basis. She previously was a member of the House of Representatives for the leftist green party GroenLinks from 1998 to 2011, and served as the party's parliamentary leader from 2002 to 2010. CareerFamily backgroundHalsema was born in 1966 in Haarlem in a Dutch social democratic family. They moved to Enschede, a town in the east of the Netherlands, close to the German border (Twente). Her father W. Halsema was a sports teacher and director of the municipal service for physical education, sports and recreation (Dienst lichamelijke opvoeding, sport en recreatie) of Enschede. For a long time, from 1982 until 1994, her mother Olga Halsema-Fles was an alderwoman responsible for social affairs and employment for the Labour Party (PvdA) in Enschede. Her mother was also a member of the Dutch Social Insurance Advisory Board (College van Toezicht Sociale Verzekeringen).Career before politicsIn 1983, Halsema graduated from the Kottenpark-college in Enschede with a Havo-diploma. Between 1984 and 1985 she attended the Vrije Hogeschool (teachers program for Waldorf schools) in Driebergen. In 1985 she started training as a Dutch and history teacher in Utrecht. In 1988 she left her training without graduating. After that she worked for a year in a Utrecht café. She then started studying general social sciences at Utrecht University, specialising in criminology. During these studies she had a number of jobs related to her specialisation. Between 1991 and 1993, she was an intern at the working group "police and immigrants" at the Ministry of the Interior and she was a student assistant for professor Frank Bovenkerk. In 1992, she worked as an "supernumerary lecturer in scientific methods and techniques" at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Utrecht University, teaching statistics to first year students.
After Halsema graduated in 1993, she joined the staff of the Wiardi Beckman Stichting (WBS), the research institute of the Labour Party. She was seen as a rising talent in the Labour Party. In 1995, she published the book Ontspoord. Opstellen over criminaliteit & rechtshandhaving ("Derailed, essays about crime and law enforcement") for the WBS. In 1996, she travelled through the United States as a fellow for the German Marshall Fund. In 1996 she became an editor for the De Helling, the magazine of the research institute of GroenLinks. In the same year, she started combining her work at the WBS with work for De Balie, a political and cultural centre in Amsterdam, where she met Kees Vendrik, who before that worked for the GroenLinks in the House of Representatives. For De Balie, she led the project Res Publica about the meaning of the Constitution of the Netherlands for the modern society. She also joined the programme committee of the Labour Party for the 1998 election. She also published the book Land in zicht: een cultuurpolitieke benadering van de Ruimtelijke Ordening ("Land ho, cultural-political essays about spatial planning") with Maarten Hajer. She was asked to be a candidate for the Labour Party in the 1998 election.
In the autumn of 1997, Halsema left the Labour Party and the WBS. The direct cause was the authoritarian way in which the police had handled the protests against the European summit that was working on the Treaty of Amsterdam. The social democratic mayor Schelto Patijn had put 500 people in preventive detention. Her dissatisfaction with the course of the Labour Party had grown. In her view the party was unable to renew its social democratic manifesto and use the rising economic tide to invest in the public sector. After leaving the WBS, she continued to work at De Balie and also was a columnist at Het Parool and for IKON radio. She also works as an editor at the publisher Van Gennep.Political careerMember of the House of RepresentativesIn the 1998 election, she was a candidate on the list of GroenLinks after being courted by Paul Rosenmöller. She was the third candidate on the list, making her the highest new candidate and practically guaranteed her a seat in the House. The seventh was her former De Balie-colleague Vendrik. GroenLinks more than doubled its seat total from five to eleven. In her first period in the House, Halsema was spokesperson justice, asylum seekers and home affairs. She became well known due to her opposition to the tougher migration law proposed by Job Cohen.
In the 2002 election, she was given the second place on the list. The party lost one seat. Halsema became vice-chair of the parliamentary party and among others spoke for the party in the first debate with the First Balkenende cabinet. In November of that year Paul Rosenmöller unexpectedly announced that he would leave politics. He asked Halsema to succeed him, and she immediately agreed. Ten days before the party congress she was announced as the only candidate for the party leadership and became top candidate for the 2003 election. The party lost another two seats. In addition to the party leadership she was spokesperson on areas of culture and media, healthcare, spatial planning and the environment. As party leader she had a more prominent position and put forth a number of private member's bills, including one concerning judicial review and another that sets a fixed price for books (together with the leader of the Democrats 66 (D66) Boris Dittrich).Halsema in 2010Between October 2003 and January 2004, Halsema was on maternity leave. She got twins. Marijke Vos, the vice-chair of the parliamentary party took over as party leader. After her return to the House of Representatives, Halsema started a debate about the course of the left in general and GroenLinks in particular. She claimed that her party was the last "left liberal party in the Netherlands". She called for increased cooperation with the Socialist Party, the Labour Party and GroenLinks, aiming at a left-wing majority government after the 2007 election. She asked Labour Party leader Wouter Bos to speak out in favour of such a cabinet, but he refused in order to allow for a possible coalition of the Labour Party and the Christian Democratic Appeal. In January 2006, she was elected "Liberal of the Year" by the Youth Organisation Freedom and Democracy, the youth organisation of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), because of her new political course, in particular where it came to reforming the welfare state. In June 2006, she was the only candidate for the top spot on her party's list. During the campaign, she published Linkse lente (Left-wing Spring), a book co-authored by Michiel Zonneveld, which blends her political vision and personal biography. In the 2006 election the party lost another seat.
In 2007, she took over the private member's bill of Wijnand Duyvendak, who worked together with Niesco Dubbelboer of the Labour Party and Boris van der Ham of D66, to allow for a non-binding corrective referendum. In April 2010 the party congress voted against including the referendum in the party manifesto.
In the run-up to the 2010 elections, Halsema's political profile rose: she was given the Thorbecke prize for political eloquence. and she was elected by Intermediair as the best candidate for Prime Minister.
During the 2010 election, GroenLinks went from seven to ten seats. The party, under Halsema, negotiated with the VVD, the Labour Party and D66 to reach agreement on a new "Purple Plus"-government, but the negotiations failed.
On 17 December 2010, Halsema announced that she would leave parliament and that Jolande Sap was elected as the new leader of GroenLinks. She formally left parliament in January 2011.
In 2016, she made public in her political memoire Pluche (Plush) that after the 2012 election she was asked to consider becoming minister of Development Cooperation by Lodewijk Asscher, the Labour Party leader, but the VVD vetoed this.Mayor of AmsterdamOn 27 June 2018, she was appointed Mayor of Amsterdam and began serving a six-year term on 12 July 2018. She is the first woman to hold the position fully as Guusje ter Horst and Kajsa Ollongren held the position previously in an ad interim manner (for 14 days in 2001 and 21 days in 2017 respectively).[24] Also, Halsema was a first GreenLeft member to become Amsterdam's mayor.
In the Netherlands, protests were also taking place on the Dam on 1 June 2020 for George Floyd. Halsema was criticised because of the crowd gathering and the 1.5 meter (5') safety issue from COVID-19, it was impossible to manage the 1.5 meter rule between the protesting citizens which was a must for safety reasons. Halsema was criticised on the Dutch news by a lot of people in the medical field for not taking action and lack of responsibility. In Den Haag and Rotterdam, there were also protests but where the 1,5 meter safety measurement had been followed and the second protest became too crowded and further protests where cancelled and stopped.
On 1 July 2021, Halsema apologised for the city's involvement in the Atlantic slave trade.Political views Femke Halsema campaigning in 2006Halsema sees herself as a left-liberal. In Dutch she prefers vrijzinnig (free-thinking) over liberaal (liberal) because the conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy is seen as the pre-eminent liberal party. In 2004, she started a debate within her party about a new political course. Her new course emphasises two concepts: freedom and pragmatism.
With the concept freedom, Halsema seeks to connect herself with the "freedom-loving traditions of the left". Like Isaiah Berlin, Halsema discerns two traditions of freedom: negative and positive liberty. For Halsema negative liberty is the freedom of citizens from government interference. She wants to apply this concept especially to the multicultural society and rule of law, where she seeks to reduce the influence of government. Positive liberty is, according to Halsema, the emancipation of citizens from poverty. Halsema wants to apply this concept especially to the economy, the welfare state and the environment, where the government should take more action.
With pragmatism, Halsema has contrasted her politics with those of the new populist political right, such as Pim Fortuyn. While the right, in Halsema's eyes, had become dogmatic and tried to reform society on the basis of new principles, Halsema claimed that the left has got more feeling for the "narrow margins of politics." According to Halsema, the left has emphasised equitable outcomes, as opposed to merely fair-minded principles.
This new course has been integrated into several practical proposals on the economy, which together form Vrijheid Eerlijk Delen ("Sharing Liberty Fairly"). These proposals have led to considerable debate. Halsema proposes that the main goal of the welfare state should be the emancipation of citizens from poverty. To ensure this, she proposes a new model for the welfare state, which is modelled on the Danish welfare state. In her perception of the welfare state, the government should endeavour to ensure full employment by cutting taxes on labour, increasing labour flexibility and creating more government jobs. If there is more work, so this theory goes, everybody can get a job, after a maximum of one year of unemployment. She also called for the implementation of a partial basic income.Personal lifeHalsema married the tv documentary maker Robert Oey. Oey made among others the film De Leugen (The Lie) in which Halsema participated amongst others by singing. On December 20, 2022 they announced that they had separated since a year. Their twin children are Bruno and Suzy. Halsema resides in an official residence on Herengracht while Oey kept the house in Holysloot.
Robert Oey was born in Middelburg as the son of a Dutch-German mother and a Chinese father, a gynaecologist. After secondary school in Middelburg, he studied history at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, followed by a study of history and American studies at the University of Amsterdam. After positions at the RVU and the VPRO, Oey became a filmmaker. Since 2017 he has been employed by Topkapi Films as a producer.
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Post by pieter on May 15, 2024 2:21:59 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 15, 2024 2:23:29 GMT -7
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