About 20%.
"UC investments in entities with ties to weapons makers, #Israel, #Blackrock, #Blackstone and 24 other companies targeted by divestment proponents amount to about $32 billion of #UC's $175 billion...
Utrecht University’s board has promised to “reasses” its ties to the Zionist Entity. We recognise this message for what it is: a tactic to placate the masses, keep us silent while the death toll rises to over 45,000 people in Gaza.
We have stated our demands time and time again. However, the university remains insistent on being complicit to genocide and would rather call the riot police on its own students and staff, rather than stand on the right side of history.
Come and join us in demanding an end to our University’s ties to apartheid and genocide. Bring whatever resources you can, as much food and supplies as possible, and join us in the streets as we take back our university.
🇵🇸 In our thousands, in our millions, we are ALL Palestinians. 🇵🇸'
Ondertussen wordt Janskerkhof 15 ontruimd, nadat genocide-wegkijker Anton Pijpers (voorzitter van het College van Bestuur van de UU) eerder op de avond langs was geweest voor zijn neoliberale borrelpraat. De studenten (en docenten) pikken het niet meer! En terecht! :solidarity: 🍉
'For the third time, Utrecht University has chosen to send in riot police against its own students and staff rather than sever ties with an apartheid state.'
"A review of CalMatters video from inside the encampment documented at least 25 instances in which those officers appeared to aim their weapons at the eye level of protesters or fired them into crowds that didn’t appear to present an immediate threat to life or serious injury… Law enforcement officers across the state are trained that these types of munitions 'shall not be aimed at the head, neck or any other vital organs…'" https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/05/ucla-protest-palestine-police/
According to my information 4 out of 5 student encampments are allowed to stay the night! 🎉 Only Amsterdam was evicted, more about that later. Preview: outside agitators, not Antifa, escalated things. Probably same folks as earlier (nazi hooligans). 💤
"As protests against #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza, ethnic cleansing on the #WestBank, and apartheid repression within ’48 harden into a proliferation of encampments on US university campuses, still more have popped up across the globe—in Asia, Europe, Mexico and elsewhere."
A debate about the differences of #antiZionism & #antiSemitism isn't possible @freieuniversitaet . Some might say that's corrupted by design, but I'd call it a classic conflict of interest.
However, #FUBerlin president prof. Ziegler published today: “This kind of protest is not dialogue oriented. An occupation of university property is not acceptable. We welcome academic debate and dialogue – but not in this form,”