‘Enough is enough’, states the petition, which was initiated by Dimitris Pavlopoulos, Elif Keskiner, and Ismintha Waldring. They believe that VU has kept a ‘deafening silence’ in the face of the genocide in Gaza. The long-awaited and delayed ‘Assessment Framework for International Collaborations’ also fails to impress the signatories. According to them, the assessment framework prohibits virtually no collaboration with Israeli institutions.
Call to action
The petitioners consider that the VU’s executive board ‘has been considerably more cautious than other Dutch universities’. For this reason, the signatories are calling on the faculty board and the department heads of Social Sciences and Humanities to take action themselves. The petition has been signed by lecturers, PhD students, professors, and support staff from the faculty.
According to spokespeople Pavlopoulos and Keskiner, the petition has been handed over to the faculty board. The full list of signatories, known to Ad Valvas, has not been made public.