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Peter Breedveld

7 October 2025

VU staff often feel unsafe because of students

Many employees who feel unsafe say it is because of students. Often, this is related to Gaza and sexism.
7 October 2025

SRVU no longer allowed to manage Studentendok

Due to a number of violent incidents during the student council elections and to meetings of VU for Palestine, members of the participation council say, SRVU is no longer allowed to manage the workspace and meeting area for student organizations.
24 September 2025

Dangerous books in the university library

From Harry Potter to the Quran, the newly openend Banned Books collection of the VU Library contains books that for some reason or other are banned by institutions and governments all over the world.
21 August 2025

Welcome to the woke university!

How woke is VU Amsterdam really? Well, pretty woke, we can tell you. On the basis of 13 locations at the campus we prove that VU Amsterdam is working hard to create a society in which everyone has equal opportunities,…
26 June 2025

‘My mom doesn’t want me to fight for Palestinian rights’

VU for Palestine is fighting for justice for the Palestinian people, but not everybody takes kindly to the way they do it. ‘I would say that 80 to 90 percent supports our actions.’
26 June 2025

‘A large faculty is a more robust discussion partner’

Gregor Halff is the dean of the new faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, a merger of the three faculties of Social Sciences, Humanities and Religion and Theology. ‘I like bringing people together.’
11 June 2025

‘Bold’ students terrorize campus

The right-wing conservative student party VSP has been partying hard during the student council elections, according to a report by the election committee of the university student council. The report speaks of a ‘very disturbing pattern of increasing aggression, intimidation…
22 May 2025

‘If people don’t want you, you should just leave’

Jews don’t need the universities, says American activist Shabbos Kestenbaum. “When all the Jews are gone, they’ll come begging us on their knees to come back.”
20 May 2025

‘I won’t be told by a non-Jew what Jewishness is’

Anti-Zionist Jews should be excommunicated, according to Scottish Jewish author Ben M. Freeman, who spoke at VU Amsterdam on Tuesday evening about topics including Jewish Pride.
3 April 2025

Earth Sciences scrapped, 37 layoffs

The Faculty of Science, together with the VU executive board, has announced its intention to dissolve the Department of Earth Sciences. Parts of the department will be integrated into other units. The plan includes 37 job losses. This is a…
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