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Peter Breedveld

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…
27 March 2025

‘In Amsterdam I can be my own boss’

It angers master student Nusiba Abdalla that Dutch people are protesting the war in Gaza, but don’t seem to care about what’s happening in her country of origin, Sudan.
13 February 2025

Students, stop flying!

If we wish to uphold to our end of the Paris agreement to reduce emissions by 2030, more actions are necessary. And we urge students to take responsibility.
1 November 2024

VU wants to make difficult choices in tandem with staff council

VU Amsterdam will cut its budget significantly in 2025, but what exactly will be affected remains unknown. That there will be layoffs and that the quality of education will suffer, seems virtually guaranteed.
4 October 2024

Ad Valvas defaced with anti-Semitic texts

Numerous copies of the latest issue of Ad Valvas have been defaced with texts such as ‘Fuck Israel’, ‘Fuck Zionism’ and ‘Stop supporting genocide’. The defacers have consistently targeted the interview with three Jewish students in that issue, in some…
27 September 2024

Eindhoven university magazine is now officially independent

Following a great deal of commotion about censorship, Eindhoven University of Technology news platform Cursor now has a new editorial statute. The Executive Board acknowledges the editorial team’s independence. The platform is “not a public relations vehicle”.
16 September 2024

New Jewish student association prefers low profile

A new Jewish student body, the Jewish Student Association, aims to create a campus space where Jews can feel secure and express themselves freely.
4 September 2024

Higher education graduates more likely to be organ donors

People with a higher education degree are more likely to be registered as organ donors, according to new figures from Statistics Netherlands.
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