Île amsterdam articles
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Thousands march through Amsterdam in support of Gaza
Some 10,000 people marched through Amsterdam on Saturday to support the people of Palestine and remember 76 years since the Nakba, when thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their homes through the formation of Israel in 1948. The march, which passed off peacefully, ended on the Museumplein where a group of men, dressed in black, attacked the few demonstrators who had remained in the area, the Parool reported on Saturday evening. “There were two loud bangs and then panic on
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University of Amsterdam “will no longer talk” to protestors
“We will no longer talk to activists,” stated the chairman of the University of Amsterdam about the Pro-Palestinian protestors overtaking the university. After another storm of protests on May 13, the UvA (University of Amsterdam) cut communication with the Pro-Palestinian activists who caused €1,5 million worth of damage to the university in four days. The […]
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Pro-Palestine students protest in Utrecht and Amsterdam
The police were active in both Amsterdam and Utrecht on Tuesday evening as several hundred demonstrators took to the streets to show their support for Palestine and to call for an end to the hostilities. In Utrecht, the police broke up a gathering of around 150 students next to the university’s main library who had set up tents and erected barricades in the late afternoon. Some of them refused to leave and around 50 people were arrested shortly after midnight.