{"id":138185,"date":"2022-03-24T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=138185"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:13","slug":"university-has-double-standard-in-conflicts-two-student-organisations-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/03\/24\/university-has-double-standard-in-conflicts-two-student-organisations-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"University has ‘double standard’ in conflicts, two student organisations claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two student organisations are accusing the EUR of \u2018a double standard and hypocrisy\u2019 in a letter to the Executive Board. EUC Collxctive and Erasmus School of Colour believe that the university should always respond as it is doing to the war in the Ukraine. The students held a sit-in in honour of Israeli Apartheid Week.<\/p>\n

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Students hung banners for a boycott of Israel on the building of Erasmus University College in May 2021.<\/span><\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>

\u201cWe work and study at this university,\u201d explained doctoral candidate Zouhair Hammana from Erasmus School of Colour (ESoC). \u201cWe want to feel safe here. Once you notice that double standards are being applied, that one region is more important than another and thus that some lives are more important than others, it doesn\u2019t feel safe any more.\u201d<\/p>\n

That political statements and support in the form of an emergency fund are possible for the war in the Ukraine is applauded by the students in ESoC and EUC Collxctive. \u201cThese are the kind of care-centred approaches by education that we always<\/em> wanted to see,\u201d they wrote in a letter to the Executive Board. The university\u2019s attitude is described as \u2018showing selective solidarity, hypocritical and racist\u2019 by the letter writers.<\/p>\n

Sit-in<\/h2>

On Tuesday the students held a sit-in<\/a> at campus Woudestein. This protest was aimed at the EUR. Last year, the university did not want to condemn Israel\u2019s actions when the Gaza strip was being bombarded and Palestinians were being forcibly evicted by Israel. The Palestinian flag and pro-Palestine banners were not permitted to hang as a protest on the fa\u00e7ade of the EUC<\/a>. The university\u2019s policy would not permit the building to be used for political statements.<\/p>\n

The protest and the letter coincide with the Israeli Apartheid Week. Since 2005, attention is drawn during this week to \u2018the Palestinian liberation<\/a> struggle and to other situations involving racism, oppression and discrimination\u2019. Meetings are organised around the world at universities and other places. This year Rotterdam student and other organisations joined the movement. On Monday and Tuesday they attended protests in The Hague and Utrecht.<\/p>\n\n\t

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