Dutch scholars, educators call Dutch government to cut relations with Israel
Dutch scholars, educators call Dutch government to cut relations with Israel
AMESTERDAM, Tuesday, May 25, 2021 (WAFA) – Some 570 Dutch scholar and educators have so far signed an online petition calling on their government to cut all relations with Israel as a means to achieve just peace.
The scholar and educators, one of whom is Kylie Thomas who serves as an associate professor at the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, expressed their solidarity with the Palestinian people worldwide and denunciation of the relentless Israeli colonial dispossession and occupation.
“We are scholars and educators in Dutch higher education and we stand against the ongoing dispossession, occupation and war that is being inflicted on Palestinians by the Israeli state. On Nakba Day, the 73rd anniversary of the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in present day Israel, we stand
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An Israeli airstrike on a terror target in the Gaza STrip, May 16, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90 via JTA)
Hundreds of academics have signed a petition calling on the Dutch government to sever relations with Israel over what they perceive as Israeli violations of international law in responding to Hamas terror group rockets from the Gaza Strip.
Among the 564 signers is a researcher at a state Holocaust research institute.
“We declare we join the calls of our Palestinian colleagues to boycott Israeli academic institutions,” reads the petition, which is titled “Netherlands higher education stands in solidarity with Palestinians.” The document also calls on the Dutch government to “sever all economic, political and military ties with Israel.”
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