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Palestinian student Tariq Abu Khalefa: "I was afraid I would blackout"
6 november 2025 - 15:06
Master’s student in Private Law Tariq Abu Khalefa (33) fell into a months-long depression after 7 October 2023. In an instant, the world of the UvA student with Palestinian roots was turned completely upside down, both personally and at the university. Yet even during his studies, he managed to la...
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UvA’s boycott of Israel leads to polarisation instead of dialogue
22 oktober 2025 - 13:00
The recent decision by the Board and deans of the UvA to temporarily suspend institutional collaborations with Israeli partners and to investigate the termination of ongoing Horizon projects raises serious concerns, argues law student Feike Otto van der Zee. “This decision reflects a university in...
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UvA blacklisted by US state of Florida
20 oktober 2025 - 15:45
The government of the US state of Florida has published an official document online listing organisations and institutions worldwide that have been blacklisted by Florida for boycotting Israel. Dutch universities, including the UvA, have been on the list since the end of September.
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UvA wants to end all collaborations with Israel
15 oktober 2025 - 14:14
The UvA has announced its intention to withdraw early from its ten research collaborations with Israel, if there is legal room to do so. This was stated today in a joint letter from the Executive Board and all deans to students and staff. The UvA also said it will no longer enter into any new collab...
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UvA activists won’t stop demonstrating with peace in Gaza
9 oktober 2025 - 15:18
When the war between Israel and Hamas eventually ends, pro-Palestinian activists will continue demonstrating at the UvA. According to protest groups, Palestinians will remain oppressed even under a peace agreement. “Until they have self-determination, we will not stop.”
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After months of silence, a major pro-Palestine protest returns to the UvA
6 oktober 2025 - 15:45
For the first time this academic year, another large pro-Palestinian protest took place. A long march went from Roeterseiland to the Maagdenhuis. Protesters demanded – once again – that the UvA calls the situation in Gaza genocide and severs all ties with Israeli institutions.
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Our report scientifically substantiates complicity
23 september 2025 - 07:30
In his opinion piece, Jeroen Bruggeman repeats (unscientific) viewpoints that have been used over the past years to support Israel’s continued destruction of Gaza, argue Erella Grassiani and Yolanda Jansen on behalf of the joint authors of the report (Ir)responsible Academic Ties, which is being p...
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UvA will not pull out of ongoing research collaborations with Israel for now
17 september 2025 - 10:45
All ongoing research collaborations of the UvA with Israel receive funding through the Horizon Europe programme. Six of these started after the outbreak of the conflict in Gaza, Folia reported last week. Is it still possible to sever ties with Israel within this multi-million-euro programme? “If y...
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UvA entered into six new partnerships with Israel during the Gaza conflict
9 september 2025 - 17:04
After the start of the conflict in Gaza, the UvA entered into six new partnerships with Israel. Four of these were established after the large pro-Palestinian demonstrations in May 2024.
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UvA Rector Verbeek: “Protest may be sharp, but never hostile”
1 september 2025 - 16:36
Contrary to tradition, the academic year was not opened today by the president of the executive board, but by the rector magnificus. “These are turbulent times for science.” This statement was confirmed when several pro-Palestinian demonstrators refused to leave the building, prompting Verbeek...
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Opening of academic year cancelled after disruption by protesters
1 september 2025 - 16:30
The opening of the academic year was suspended by Rector Magnificus Peter-Paul Verbeek after demonstrators refused to leave the building. The rector was able to finish his speech, but the remainder of the programme was cancelled.
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UvA staff must now assess collaborations themselves using ethical framework
2 juli 2025 - 16:45
Yesterday, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) published an ethical framework that UvA employees must use to assess all collaborations with third parties. The university developed this framework in response to last year’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations and it monitors ties with parties in war zones.
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UvA will not enter into new partnerships with Israel via EU fund
20 juni 2025 - 12:38
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will not enter into any new research collaborations with Israeli institutions via Horizon Europe. Horizon is the most important partnership for individual researchers with Israeli institutions. The UvA has decided to suspend these collaborations following an investi...
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Liveblog | Talks between Executive Board and protesters collapsed
4 juni 2025 - 18:20
On Monday, demonstrators again pitched their tents near the Roeterseiland campus. They demanded that the UvA cut all ties with Israeli universities. Talks collapsed on Wednesday afternoon. The protesters say they see no room for further talks.
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UvA must immediately suspend ties with Israeli institutions, say CSR and COR
28 mei 2025 - 14:00
All cooperation with Israeli institutions must be suspended immediately, according to a letter sent to the University of Amsterdam (UvA) by the Joint Assembly (GV) of the COR and CSR. That co-determination council also wants the UvA to assess any cooperation with Israeli institutions for possible el...
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Sit-in at FNWI against UvA ties with Israeli institutions
23 mei 2025 - 10:45
On Thursday afternoon, a silent sit-in took place on the central staircase of the main building of the Faculty of Science (FNWI) at Science Park. Around thirty students and lecturers sat together in silence, while the sound of a beating heart echoed through the hall.
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Student council election debate focuses mainly on ties with Israel
8 mei 2025 - 16:56
The annual student council elections will begin on 9 May. The final debate preceding the elections took place this afternoon at the Room for Discussion debate platform. Emotions ran high among the four parties participating in the direct elections for the Central Student Council (CSR): “Your party...
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UvA staff hold reading marathon as pro-Palestine protest at REC
6 mei 2025 - 12:17
Exactly one year after the fierce pro-Palestine protests at the UvA, staff will read continuously from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 6, on the REC about the conflict between Israel and Palestine. With the reading marathon, they are calling for the severing of ties between the UvA and compli...
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Are student exchanges with Israeli universities enriching or risky?
30 april 2025 - 15:23
The activists who occupied the Maagdenhuis building this month demanded, among other things, that the University of Amsterdam (UvA) ends all student exchanges with Israel. Do these exchanges strengthen students' academic development or do they pose too great an ethical risk?
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Photo report | A recap of yesterday's Maagdenhuis occupation
15 april 2025 - 15:30
Yesterday, a group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied the Maagdenhuis.The police eventually put a forceful end to the occupation. A recap in ten photos.
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This was the Maagdenhuis occupation: 13 arrests, graffiti on the walls and heavy blows from the police.
15 april 2025 - 13:40
Tuesday morning, UvA students, staff and the board woke up after the turbulent occupation of the Maagdenhuis, during which the riot police intervened and thirteen arrests were made.
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Read back | Building empty, but full of barricades and graffiti on walls
14 april 2025 - 11:28
Activists occupied the Maagdenhuis today. They are demanding that the University of Amsterdam cut ties with Israeli universities that are, in their view, complicit in genocide. The UvA has since filed a police report.
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Forty UvA alumni have returned their diplomas in anger over the UvA’s Israel policy
28 maart 2025 - 15:34
This afternoon, some forty predominantly Jewish UvA alumni handed in their UvA diplomas to the president of the board, Edith Hooge, in protest against the non-renewal of the UvA’s student exchange programme with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. “The UvA based its decision on a confusing repor...
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Pro-Palestine demonstrators chalk pavement at Roeterseiland during spontaneous protest
24 maart 2025 - 14:50
On Monday afternoon, there was a small protest by pro-Palestine activists on the Roeterseiland campus. They wrote slogans on the pavement and around the bridge. They are once again demanding that the University of Amsterdam cut all ties with Israel.
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UvA boycott of Hebrew University “completely divorced from reality”
19 maart 2025 - 08:00
Hebrew University in Jerusalem does not agree with the termination of student exchanges with the UvA. Professor Netta Barak-Corren spits her venom about the UvA decision in no uncertain terms. “Hebrew University is not involved in military decisions.”
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Essay on student protests: ‘Adults have something to lose, young people have something to win’
14 maart 2025 - 13:00
The recent student protests against Israeli violence in the Gaza Strip prompted Lodewijk van Oord to write the book Protesteren voor beginners (Protesting for Beginners). Young people are taking to the streets more and more often, he observes. “Young students who are protesting for the first time ...
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UvA: no renewal of exchange with Hebrew University of Jerusalem
13 maart 2025 - 16:14
The UvA will stop student exchange with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for now due to the risk of human rights violations by the Israeli university. The UvA came to this decision after a recommendation from a special, independent committee.
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UvA wants to move planned ‘die-in’, protesters do not agree
11 februari 2025 - 16:42
The planned demonstration tonight at the ABC building may not take place there by the UvA because of the expected “large numbers of visitors” from outside the university. The UvA has designated Building-E or the bridge over the Nieuwe Achtergracht as a location, but the protesters do not agree.
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UvA may take punitive measures against demonstrators at Brekelmans interview
7 februari 2025 - 12:55
The UvA is currently investigating whether “punitive measures” can be taken against students and staff who disrupted the public interview with Defence Minister Ruben Brekelmans last Wednesday. “This feels like the UvA is sitting in a legal chair.”
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Rector Verbeek pleads for connection at dies natalis ending with Palestine protest
17 januari 2025 - 10:36
After a year in which togetherness at the university was sometimes hard to find, rector magnificus Peter-Paul Verbeek pleads for “sense of community” during the 393rd dies natalis of the UvA. Some 40 pro-Palestine demonstrators hold a noise demonstration on the Spui.
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New review framework for third-party collaborations UvA coming up
9 december 2024 - 14:02
The updated, comprehensive assessment framework with which the UvA will assess its external collaborations is just about ready. Before the Christmas break, it will be submitted to the participation council for advice. Guest lectureships, internships or joint papers will not be considered institution...
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Students and teachers with residence permits think twice before demonstrating
25 november 2024 - 09:47
To demonstrate or not to demonstrate? Students and staff who are on a residence permit in the Netherlands worry that participating in a protest is not without consequences. “I don’t want participation in a protest, however peaceful, to affect my right to stay in the Netherlands.”
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Pro-Palestine demonstration on Roeterseiland during UvA's Open Campus Day
22 november 2024 - 17:07
During the last day of UvA's Open Campus Day, 40 pro-Palestine protesters held a sit-in. Demanding that the UvA cut their ties with Israel and speak out against the genocide in Gaza. They called on bystanders, including high school students, to join the sit-in.
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REC-A windows again defaced and destroyed by Palestine protesters
30 oktober 2024 - 10:48
On Tuesday night, pro-Palestine protesters defaced Roeterseiland building ABC again. The windows of the building's entrance were also heavily damaged. The UvA is pressing charges.
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Liveblog | Walk-out and demonstration at both Science Park and Roeterseiland
8 oktober 2024 - 11:34
Another demonstration has been announced at both Science Park and Roeterseiland. A so-called walk-out is planned at 11am, followed by a noise demonstration at 11.30am.
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The first Palestine demonstration of this academic year took place on Friday. How did the day go?
9 september 2024 - 16:07
Last Friday, another Palestine demonstration took place on the Roeterseiland campus. Around a thousand demonstrators attended this. How did the day develop?
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Slideshow | This is how the first pro-Palestine demonstration of the new academic year went down
9 september 2024 - 15:34
Last Friday, over a thousand students and employees gathered at the Roeterseiland campus for the first pro-Palestine demonstration of the new academic year. A march to the Maagdenhuis followed later in the day. A chronological overview of the day in photos.
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Read back | Demonstration over, protest calm and without violence
6 september 2024 - 16:00
Occupy group Amsterdam Encampment has announced a protest today at 2pm on the Roeterseiland campus. The UvA states it will ‘not intervene immediately at the first tents’. We will keep you updated on developments in this liveblog. Unfortunately, the blog is Dutch-only.
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Can ties with Israeli universities indeed be cut so easily?
8 juli 2024 - 13:05
Cut ties with Israel: That is the main demand of the protesters who have been organizing protests for Palestine for months at the UvA and other universities. The UvA previously published a list of collaborations. But to what extent is it possible to terminate them?
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Small occupation B building REC, UvA files report | ME evacuates
21 juni 2024 - 17:30
Around noon, several students, staff 'and others' occupied classrooms and a toilet block in the B wing of the Roeterseiland campus, Amsterdam.encampment said via an announcement on Instagram. The UvA filed a report mid-afternoon. Around half past four, the ME entered the premises and shortly afterwa...
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Demonstration at Science Park “no longer peaceful”
17 juni 2024 - 19:30
The pro-Palestine demonstration that began peacefully at Science Park this afternoon is now “no longer peaceful,” according to the UvA. It is currently under review whether an eviction is necessary.
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Pro-Palestine protesters block Roetersstraat
13 juni 2024 - 15:37
Some 40 pro-Palestine demonstrators block the Roetersstraat. Cars are forced to make a detour. Earlier in the day, the protesters were evicted by police from a squat at Achter Oosteinde.
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FNWI students want civil consultation on academic ties with Israel
12 juni 2024 - 13:47
Science faculty students are calling for a citizens’ council on how to sever ties between the UvA and Israeli institutions. Talks between students and the faculty board are ongoing.
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Universities don’t want to close the door on Israel
10 juni 2024 - 11:08
“We will never break ties with an entire country in any case,” rectors of Dutch universities write in the newspaper Trouw. That would only happen if the government advised or imposed it, “as was the case with Russia.”
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7 juni 2024 - 15:45
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Cut ties with Israel? Dijkgraaf is opposed
22 mei 2024 - 10:08
Should universities cut their ties with Israel? Students have been demonstrating for that for weeks, now also in Tilburg. But Minister Dijkgraaf thinks, on the contrary, that it would be better for institutions to maintain contact with Israeli universities.
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UvA wants to update ethical framework for external collaboration
21 mei 2024 - 12:43
In response to the events on campus, the Executive Board (CVB) says it “Very much understands the plea of students and employees.” The UvA will therefore develop criteria to assess international collaboration on ethical aspects. Until then, the UvA will not enter into any new collaborative agree...
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17 mei 2024 - 16:45
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What happened, who are the protesters, and where do we go from here?
9 mei 2024 - 08:30
After a tumultuous week of demonstrations, the UvA’s Binnengasthuisterrein was occupied Tuesday night. The protesters want the university to sever ties with Israel. Five questions about the situation now and last week.
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9 mei 2024 - 08:06
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8 mei 2024 - 16:27
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Photo report | Day two of pro-Palestine demonstrations and occupations at the UvA
8 mei 2024 - 12:38
The ‘solidarity demonstration’ announced on Tuesday morning turned into an occupation of the Binnengasthuisterrein. This is a chronological overview of the day in photos.
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6 mei 2024 - 23:15
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UvA is not cutting ties with Israel (for the moment)
20 februari 2024 - 15:43
The UvA is not suspending “general ties” with Israel at this time. So writes the UvA in response to a letter from Dutch Scholars for Palestine, which asked universities to suspend all “formal and informal ties” with Israeli higher education institutions. “Severing or suspending ties also m...
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Pro-Palestine protesters block entrance to Amsterdam University College
5 februari 2024 - 13:05
The pro-Palestine demonstration that has regularly taken place on the Roeterseiland campus in recent months had moved to Science Park this morning. The access bridge to the AUC grounds was blocked for some time.
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