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Edjih Nlend Matong, a student at the University of Paris-Cité, recounts his experience of police violence during the demonstration on October 8, while expressing his determination to continue to get involved despite the fear. #ViolencesPolicières #Manifestation #Activisme (translated)

Bart Nijman wrote that he saw signals everywhere that reminded him of a period in history he had studied in school. Although he believed that history would not repeat itself exactly or be predicted in advance, he saw patterns and practices in the current moralism, activism, and antisemitism that frightened him. He wrote that it should be prevented that descendants would later have to justify themselves to victims for the actions of their grandparents. At the same time, he stated that excuses were being sought to dismiss warning signals. Nijman said he was left with a bitter feeling from a piece by Rob Fransman. https://t.co/l6LTc1XoPm #geschiedenis #activisme #antisemitisme (translated)

Ronald Brok wrote that this showed him that the political priorities were not focused on energy poverty, housing shortages, or the asylum crisis, but on the activist rainbow flag. He also stated that activists in the Netherlands were calling the shots. https://t.co/yiGg1RMPO0 #politiek #Nederland #activisme (translated)

The SGP stated that the Dutch flag should hang above the Dutch parliament, with exceptions for other national or supranational flags. The party described the rainbow flag not as a national flag, but as a symbol of interest groups and activism. According to the SGP, a motion had been submitted outside the usual order of debate that would require the raising of the rainbow flag next Sunday. The party wrote that this activism alienated many people, including those for whom the flag might have been intended. Because the House of Representatives represented the entire Dutch people, the SGP believed that caution was necessary with symbols that were not perceived as unifying by everyone. The party referred to the Dutch tricolor as the flag that united all Dutch people and said it would vote against the motion. https://t.co/F1BtVCURCb #Nederland #TweedeKamer #activisme (translated)

Sylvana Simons and Bob Scholte had a heated discussion about intersectional activism and class struggle during a jubilee celebration of the program Boos, which could have been more productive if it had taken place in a less public setting. #SylvanaSimons #BobScholte #Intersectionaliteit (translated)

Mick van Wely wrote that earlier that week he was shocked by reports in which the thwarted terrorist attack on a FlyDubai aircraft was described by some media as a fight in the cockpit. He called that deliberate disinformation and stated that there was boundless activism in the journalism surrounding Gaza and Israel. #terreur #journalistiek #GazaIsrael (translated)

Jean Bexon stated that the Mediapart journalist Antton Rouget had been involved in Segi, which he described as a far-left organization listed as a terrorist organization by the EU after September 11, 2001. He added that Rouget had been sentenced to one month in prison suspended for vandalizing a war memorial on November 11 during a Segi action. Bexon questioned the journalist's ability to objectively cover news regarding the radical left and the right given his activist past. Regarding the Quentin case, he accused Rouget of spreading false information last March that, according to him, served the narrative of the murderers: Quentin's friends allegedly dissuaded him from going to the hospital for fear of the police. #Journalisme #Politique #GaucheRadicale (translated)

So very, very rarely are there those rare moments that remind you that you still live in the Netherlands. The Netherlands! The beautiful country where I was born half a century ago. This professor reminds me of that country: level-headed, businesslike, without ideological capers and with a clear awareness of what institutions are and are not intended for. A university is NOT a Ministry of Foreign Affairs and should explicitly NOT conduct its own foreign policy. Moreover, those who glorify violence should not be able to hide behind academic freedom or political engagement. A university has a responsibility for the safety of ALL students and for the rule of law that applies in the Netherlands. Sometimes you might almost forget that these were once completely normal premises. Not every social conflict needs to be imported by our institutions, not every radical belief deserves institutional whitewashing, and tolerance does not mean that a university may look the other way when genocidal anti-Semitic violence is glorified. This is the foundation of the Netherlands I knew: freedom, but no boundlessness; tolerance, but no capitulation; universities that pursue education and science instead of geopolitical activism. #Nederland #onderwijs #vrijheid (translated)

Weird that nothing is still known about the activists who paralyzed the entire train traffic with rods and suitcases. If the farmers were on Putin's payroll, it would have been announced long ago. So they must be the unprofitable scarecrows of XR. #activisme #treinverkeer #klimaat (translated)

Dat belooft wat. Eindelijk een concrete remedie! “Volop op de bek slaan!” Jetten kan het, nu doorzetten. Dus bro, pak nu je fatbike en rijdt met de regenboogvlag fier gehesen op dat staketsel een zeker stadskwartier binnen. In no time dan exit kabinet Jetten! #politiek #verandering #activisme

De Amerikaanse wiskundige Chad Topaz onthult met dataonderzoek de ongelijkheid en discriminatie in het Amerikaanse rechtssysteem, waarbij hij pleit voor een eerlijker strafrecht door juristen bewust te maken van kansberekening en statistiek. #gerechtigheid #discriminatie #activisme

De Stonewall Inn is niet zomaar een gay bar in New York, maar de plaats waar in 1969 rellen plaatsvonden als reactie op jarenlange discriminatie en geweld van de politie. Dit wordt gezien als startpunt van de wereldwijde lhbtiq+-emancipatie en activisme. Tegenwoordig is de bar een nationaal monument, gewijd aan de lhbtiq+-rechtenbeweging. Voor mij is het indrukwekkend en ontroerend om vanavond hier te zijn. En ook passend want de verdediging van mensenrechten is een belangrijk onderdeel van ons buitenlandbeleid. Nederland staat aan de zijde van de Stonewall Inn-gemeenschap als het gaat om het recht van iedereen om openlijk, veilig en met trots te leven, wie je ook bent en van wie je ook houdt. #LHBtiq #Mensenrechten #Emancipatie