Amsterdam University walkout: Staff protest after police crackdown
Staff at universities across the Netherlands are staging a walkout.
It follows a violent police crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters on Amsterdam University’s campus
last week. The students are demanding the university divests from Israel linked companies and are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen has more on the walkout from Amsterdam.
Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, Sarah Bracke, spoke to Al Jazeera about the student and staff protests against Israel’s war on Gaza in the Netherlands.
She said the staff at three higher education institutions in Amsterdam witnessed police “violently” attempting to disperse a peaceful student encampment last Monday.
She said the staff today are protesting as they want to end the university’s complicity in “the ongoing genocide” in Gaza, but also want to call out the violent methods that police have used to suppress peaceful protests.
She also noted that there were Jewish staff and student protesters beaten by police despite the educational institutions claiming that police are needed to protect the safety of Jewish students on campus.
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