'Outrageous': dozens of alumni to return degrees over Dutch university's step against Israel

'Outrageous': dozens of alumni to return degrees over Dutch university's step against Israel

50 alumni of the University of Amsterdam have announced they will return their academic degrees to protest the university's decision to terminate its student exchange program with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The university cited the Hebrew institution's military connections as the primary reason for severing ties. Among those planning to return their degrees this Friday are former Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal and former Supreme Court V…

Fifty alumni of the University of Amsterdam are submitting their degrees. They find it scandalous that the Executive Board has stopped exchange cooperation with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

50 Dutch university alumni to return degrees over Israel boycott

Fifty University of Amsterdam alumni pledged to return their degrees this week to protest the institution’s decision to halt an exchange program with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Fifty alumni plan to hand back their degrees during a meeting on Friday with Edith Hooge, the head of the Dutch university’s Executive Committee, which last week decided to suspend the exchange program indefinitely, the alumni wrote in a statement on Monday. Amon…

In a statement that costs its makers absolutely nothing (everyone already knows what they think of the UvA's filthy boycott of the Hebrew University, no one will lose their job because they no longer have a degree, no one will suddenly have to pay back all their student loans and no one will be deprived of those hundreds of hours of neo-Marxist indoctrination) and only benefits the UvA (it can now say that criticism is coming from all sides, bot…

Fifty former students of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) will hand in their diplomas on Friday. They are protesting the board's decision to end cooperation with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. According to the alumni, the university is bowing to pressure from activists.

'Boycotende UvA has never asked us anything' - World News

The University of Amsterdam stops student exchange with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem because of ‘human rights violations and the limiting of academic freedom’. Whether there is also something right about that statement, the UvA has never asked, the management of the Israeli University responds. ttn-2