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2025 Pro-Palestinian Protests On University Campuses In The Netherlands
The 2025 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in the Netherlands are a series of demonstrations, encampments, and building occupations by students and staff at Dutch universities, demanding an end to institutional ties with Israeli academic and research organizations in response to the ongoing war in Gaza and Israeli military actions on the Gaza genocide, genocide of Palestinians. Background Protests against the genocide in Gaza and Dutch university ties with Israeli institutions began as early as October 2023, but escalated in the spring of 2025 following the Israeli offensive in Rafah, the increased awareness of War_crimes_in_the_Gaza_war#By_Israel, war crimes committed by the Israeli army, and the spread of campus protests in the United States and Europe. An investigation revealed that Dutch universities are involved in at least 28 EU-funded research projects with Israeli partners that may benefit the Israeli military, despite rules mandating civilian-only use. D ...
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2025 Pro-Palestinian Protests On University Campuses
The 2025 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses are a global wave of student- and staff-led demonstrations, encampments, and building occupations demanding that universities cut academic and financial ties with Israeli companies and universities complicit directly or indirectly in the Israeli military campaign in Gaza and the genocide of Palestinians. The protests, which escalated in April 2025, have involved hundreds of campuses across North America, Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia, and are part of the broader Gaza war protests. Background The campus protest movement began in the United States in April 2024, following mass arrests at Columbia University’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment, and quickly spread globally. Inspired by the anti-apartheid and Vietnam War campus protests, students and faculty called for divestment, academic boycott, and institutional transparency regarding ties to Israel and military contractors. The movement intensified in 2025 after Isra ...
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Alaa Al Najjar
Alaa Al-Najjar (, born ) is a Palestinian pediatrician who works at Al-Tahrir Hospital, part of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine. I .... Her name gained international attention in May 2025 after she lost nine of her children in an Israeli airstrike that targeted her family’s home in the Qizan an-Najjar area, south of Khan Younis. Early life Alaa Al-Najjar comes from a Palestinian family working in the medical field. She worked as a general physician in pediatrics for years at the Nasser Medical Complex, where she was known for her dedication to treating children, especially during periods of military escalation in Gaza. Career Alaa Al-Najjar worked as a general physician in pediatrics at the ...
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Maastricht University
Maastricht University (abbreviated as UM; ) is a public university, public research university in Maastricht, Netherlands. Founded in 1976, it is the second youngest of the thirteen List of universities in the Netherlands, Dutch universities. In 2023, 22,976 students studied at Maastricht University, 59% of whom were students from outside of the Netherlands, with over 4,000 employees. About half of the Bachelor's degree, bachelor's programmes are fully offered in English language, English, while the other half is taught wholly or partly in Dutch language, Dutch. Most of the Master's degree, master's and Doctorate#The Netherlands .2F Flanders, doctoral programmes are in English. Besides traditional programmes, Maastricht University also has three honours liberal arts colleges: University College Maastricht and the Maastricht Science Programme in the same liberal arts tradition. The satellite University College Venlo opened in 2015. History Maastricht University was officially e ...
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Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus University Rotterdam ( ; abbreviated as EUR) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century Christian humanist and theologian. Erasmus MC, the teaching hospital and medical school of Erasmus University, is one of the largest medical institutions in Western Europe and the foremost medical and trauma centers in the Netherlands. In addition, its economics and business schools, Erasmus School of Economics and Rotterdam School of Management, have an international reputation. History Erasmus University Rotterdam was founded on 8 November 1913 as the Netherlands School of Commerce (, or NHH) through private initiative with broad support from the business community of Rotterdam. In 1937, the school was recognized as a higher educational institute with university status, providing education in commerce and economics as an academic discipline. This resulted in a change of its name ...
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Hossam Shabat
Hossam Shabat (; 10 October 2001 – 24 March 2025) was a Palestinian journalist who reported on the Gaza war as a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, ''Al Jazeera Mubasher'' and also contributed to Drop Site News, ''Drop Site News''. Shabat was killed by an Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, Israeli airstrike on 24 March 2025, after Israel ended the 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, ceasefire established in January 2025 by resuming airstrikes on Gaza. Shabat and another Palestinian journalist, Mohammed Mansour, also killed by the Israeli military on 24 March, are among the at least 208 journalists and media workers who have been Killing of journalists in the Gaza war, killed in the Gaza war until that day. On 23 October 2024, the Israeli military, without providing verifiable evidence, had accused Shabat and five other Palestinian journalists of being members of the militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, Islamic Jihad, accusations which he denied an ...
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2024 Utrecht University Pro-Palestinian Campus Occupations
The 2024 student protests and campus encampments at Utrecht University were part of a wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations across Dutch universities in May 2024. Protesters called for an end to institutional ties between their university and Israeli universities and corporations, citing the ongoing Gaza war. Background The protests took place amid widespread global demonstrations in support of Palestinian rights and criticism of Israeli military actions in Gaza. Across the Netherlands, students began organizing encampments and protest actions similar to those seen on campuses in the United States and elsewhere in Europe. Protests and encampment attempt On 7 May 2024, student protesters attempted to establish an encampment inside the academic library of Utrecht University. The occupation lasted into the night, but was met with a police intervention. Between 7 and 8 May, approximately 50 people were arrested during the clearing of the occupation. Despite the arrests, demo ...
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Utrecht Science Park
Utrecht Science Park (also known as De Uithof) is a neighbourhood in Utrecht and the largest science park in the Netherlands. It is located to the east of the city. It is the largest campus of Utrecht University. Apart from the faculties of Law, Humanities and University College Utrecht, most of the university buildings are located in Utrecht Science Park. It is also a main location of the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and the University Medical Center Utrecht, and houses the main university library, student housing and botanical gardens. History The Dutch government purchased a plot of land of approximately 300 hectares for Utrecht University in 1958. The area was named "De Uithof", after a local farm. The first building, currently known as the Marinus Ruppert Building, opened in 1961. The city council decided to officially rename De Uithof to "Utrecht Science Park" in 2018. Transportation On 14 December 2019, the ''Uithoflijn'' line 22 of the Utrecht sneltram (l ...
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Utrecht University
Utrecht University (UU; , formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public university, public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2023, it had an enrollment of 39,769 students, and employed 8,929 faculty members and staff. More than 400 PhD degrees were awarded and 7,765 scientific articles were published. The university's 2023 budget was €2.8 billion, consisting of €1.157 billion for the university (income from work commissioned by third parties is 319 million euros) and €1.643 billion for the University Medical Center Utrecht. The university's interdisciplinary research targets life sciences, pathways to sustainability, dynamics of youth, and institutions for open societies. Utrecht University is led by the University Board, consisting of Wilco Hazeleger (Rector Magnificus), Anton Pijpers (chair), Margot van der Starre (Vice Chair) and Niels Vreeswijk (Student Assessor). Close ties are h ...
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Drift 25 Pro-Palestine Occupation June 2025
Drift or Drifts may refer to: Geography * Drift or ford (crossing) of a river * Drift (navigation), difference between heading and course of a vessel * Drift, Kentucky, unincorporated community in the United States * In Cornwall, England: ** Drift, Cornwall, village ** Drift Reservoir, associated with the village Science, technology, and physics * Directional Recoil Identification from Tracks, a dark-matter experiment * Drift (video gaming), a typical game-controller malfunction * Drift pin, metalworking tool for localizing hammer blows and for aligning holes * Drift (geology), deposited material of glacial origin * drift (in mining), a roughly horizontal passage; an adit * Drift, linear term of a stochastic process * Drift (motorsport), the controlled sliding of a vehicle through a sharp turn, either via over-steering with sudden sharp braking, or counter-steering with a sudden "clutch kick" acceleration * Incremental changes: ** Drift (linguistics), a type of language cha ...
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Police Dog
A police dog, also known as a K-9 (phonemic abbreviation of canine), is a dog that is trained to assist police and other law enforcement officers. Their duties may include searching for drugs and explosives, locating missing people, finding crime scene evidence, protecting officers and other people, and attacking suspects who flee from officers. The breeds most commonly used by law enforcement are the German Shepherd, Belgian Malinois, Bloodhound, Dutch Shepherd, and Labrador Retriever. In recent years, the Belgian Malinois has become the leading choice for police and military work due to their intense drive, focus, agility, and smaller size, though German Shepherds remain the breed most associated with law enforcement. Police dogs are used on a federal and local level for law enforcement purposes in many parts of the world. They are often assigned to what in some nations is referred to as a K-9 Unit, with a specific handler, and must remember several verbal cues and h ...
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Radboud University
Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, , formerly ) is a public research university located in Nijmegen, Netherlands. RU has seven faculties and more than 24,000 students. Established in 1923, Radboud University has consistently been included in the top 150 of universities in the world by four major university ranking tables. As of 2020, it ranks 105th in the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities. Internationally, RU is known for its strong research output. In 2020, 391 PhD degrees were awarded, and 8,396 scientific articles were published. To bolster the international exchange of academic knowledge, Radboud University joined the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities in 2016. Among its alumni Radboud University counts 14 Spinoza Prize laureates, 2 Stevin Prize laureates, 1 Nobel Prize laureate, Sir Konstantin Novoselov, and 5 prime ministers of the Netherlands, including the current prime minister Dick Schoof. Other notable alumni include former chair ...
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The Hague
The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and has been described as the country's ''de facto'' capital since the time of the Dutch Republic, while Amsterdam is the official capital of the Netherlands. The Hague is the core municipality of the COROP, Greater The Hague urban area containing over 800,000 residents, and is also part of the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, which, with a population of approximately 2.6 million, is the largest metropolitan area of the Netherlands. The city is also part of the Randstad region, one of the largest conurbations in Europe. The Hague is the seat of the Cabinet of the Netherlands, Cabinet, the States General of the Netherlands, States General, the Supreme Court of the Neth ...
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