{"id":169429,"date":"2024-06-12T10:53:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T08:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=169429"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:23","slug":"universities-dont-want-to-close-door-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/06\/12\/universities-dont-want-to-close-door-to-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities don\u2019t want to close door to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo matter what happens, we will never cut ties with an entire country\u201d, write the rectors of the Dutch universities in daily paper Trouw. This only happens when the government advises or imposes it, ‘as was the case with Russia’.<\/p>\n

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In an opinion piece<\/a>, the rectores magnifici of fifteen universities (including the Open Universiteit and the University of Humanistic Studies) state why they don\u2019t want to cut their ties with Israeli universities just like that.<\/p>\n

The article was published last Saturday, following months of nationwide protests by students and teachers. Activists occupied buildings, destructed property and called the Dutch universities accomplices to genocide.<\/p>\n\n\t

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