A national protest against university budget cuts planned for Thursday was cancelled for safety reasons, the organizers and the municipality of Utrecht confirmed on Wednesday. City leaders “recently received concrete information from outside the city, which shows that a pro-Palestine organisation intends to hijack the demonstration,” Utrecht Mayor Sharon Dijksma wrote in a letter to City Council.

Onderwijsprotest geschrapt, Utrecht vreest geweld pro-Palestijnse demonstranten

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Education protest cancelled, Utrecht fears violence from pro-Palestinian demonstrators

The planned demonstration that students and teachers in higher education wanted to hold in Utrecht on Thursday will not take place. According to the municipality, a pro-Palestinian organization may have planned to "hijack the demonstration" and they would not shy away from possible violence.

De geplande demonstratie die studenten en docenten in het hoger onderwijs donderdag in Utrecht wilden houden, gaat niet door. Volgens de gemeente was een pro-Palestijnse organisatie mogelijk van plan „de demonstratie te kapen” en zouden zij mogelijk geweld niet schuwen.

Studentenprotest Utrecht gaat niet door om pro-Palestijns protest

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Utrecht student protest cancelled due to pro-Palestinian protest

The municipality has advised the organization to cancel the demonstration, because a pro-Palestine organization might want to hijack it with violence.

De gemeente heeft de organisatie aangeraden om de betoging af te blazen, omdat een pro-Palestina-organisatie die mogelijk met geweld zou willen kapen.

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In the category of 'things that are also no longer possible': protesting. That is to say, protesting for things that are NOT about Palestinian suffering. On Thursday, people working in higher education were supposed to go to Utrecht together to shout that cutting back on higher education is STUPID, but then there are other groups who think that they should come forward because what they are fighting against is EVEN MORE STUPID. Everything has to…

In de categorie 'dingen die ook niet meer kunnen': protesteren. Dat wil zeggen, protesteren voor dingen die NIET over Palestijns leed gaan. Donderdag zouden mensen werkzaam in het hoger onderwijs met z'n allen naar Utrecht gaan om te roepen dat bezuinigen op hoger onderwijs STOM is, maar dan zijn er dus andere groepen die denken daarop af te moeten komen dat hetgeen zij tegen strijden NOG VEEL STOMMER is. Alles moet wijken. Intersectionaliteit. …

GeenStijl: Geen landelijk protest hoger onderwijs, 'pro-Palestina-organisatie voornemens demonstratie te kapen'

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GeenStijl: No national protest in higher education, 'pro-Palestine organization intends to hijack demonstration'

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University budget cuts protest scrapped: Fear of violence from pro-Palestinian groups

PLEASE NOTE: protest against budget cuts in Utrecht cancelled 13 November 2024 dionne.hendrik… Wed, 11/13/2024 - 16:15  The protest against budget cuts to higher education, which was planned for tomorrow in Utrecht, has unfortunately been cancelled. In a letter from the mayor, police and prosecutors, the organisers were advised to cancel the protest ‘because the safety of the protesters cannot be sufficiently guaranteed’. The university’s Execut…

University budget cuts protest scrapped: Fear of violence from pro-Palestinian groups

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