{"id":163603,"date":"2024-01-30T12:01:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T11:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=163603"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:09","slug":"outrage-as-holocaust-lectures-at-hogeschool-utrecht-are-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/01\/30\/outrage-as-holocaust-lectures-at-hogeschool-utrecht-are-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage as Holocaust lectures at Hogeschool Utrecht are postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hogeschool Utrecht has postponed a series of lectures on the Holocaust. This news in national daily De Telegraaf<\/em> led to a deluge of articles and responses.<\/p>\n

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The Utrecht teacher training programmes were organising the lectures together with the Centre for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI). They were to be held in February and March, but have now been put off until a later date<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week, action group New Neighbours Utrecht voiced<\/a> strong criticism of the lectures because of the CIDI\u2019s involvement. \u201cThis way, the CIDI is clawing its way into education\u201d, the activists claimed.<\/p>\n

The CIDI starkly supports Israel and the bombing of Gaza. It places<\/a> the blame for the war with Hamas, which attacked Israel on 7 October, and also defends<\/a> the settlement policy.<\/p>\n\n\t

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