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The author wondered if a Flemish newspaper would interview Joel Kotek. He described him as a genocide expert and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and wrote that Kotek had published several books and articles on the Holocaust and other genocides. The author also noted that Kotek was releasing a new book. https://t.co/mlB72ZlHsp #genocide #Holocaust #boeken #BE (translated)

Vincent Vandeputte wrote that many journalists portrayed the protests in France, in his view, as actions of distraught students seeking clean toilets and cheaper books. He pointed to a pharmacist who saw her life's work destroyed and worried that patients would not be able to pick up their medication. Vandeputte called the situation not innocent and argued that media and politicians who, in his view, minimized it further harmed their reputation. #Frankrijk #media #onderwijs (translated)

The books of the Irish writer Sally Rooney are being withdrawn from sale in the United Kingdom as a result of her support for the pro-Palestinian movement Palestine Action, which has been designated a terrorist organization by the British authorities. #SallyRooney #PalestineAction #UKNieuws (translated)

The article discusses the decline of consumer rights in a digital world, where buying films, music, books, and video games often means nothing more than obtaining an empty code, as illustrated by the upcoming physical release of Grand Theft Auto, which will only contain a download code. #DroitsDesConsommateurs #JeuxVidéo #Numérique (translated)

"I grew up with a strong sense of injustice all around me," she said in December 2003 in an interview with the Volkskrant in Tanzania, her then-base as president of the Rwandan tribunal. "As a child of 4, I was told that I could not go to the beach to swim. I felt my parents' fear, saw how they were treated by the whites. I noticed that at school we received old books and desks, the cast-offs from the white schools." #NaviPillay #Mensenrechten #Apartheid (translated)

During recent tumultuous protests in Belgium and France, much was destroyed, but interestingly, a bookstore remained unharmed, which prompts columnist Kitty Herweijer to reflect on the destructive tendencies of youth, despite the legitimate reasons for their discontent. #protest #onderwijs #geweld (translated)

Today at 1:00 PM, the Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded, with the outcome still uncertain, but literature expert Joost de Vries speculates that the longer a writer is mentioned as a candidate, the smaller the chance that he or she will actually win. #NobelprijsLiteratuur #Literatuur #Boekennieuws (translated)

"NATO has already called for calm, which is wise. Look: the rhetoric is intensifying in the Kremlin, but there is no plan to block Kaliningrad at all. So the threats are part of the broader Russian strategy to undermine support for Ukraine in Europe. We must not be swept along. These texts are a form of propaganda. But they achieve no results; here in Lithuania, there is no great debate about it. We have seen this before." "Those big words about the use of nuclear weapons are mainly aimed at undermining European support for Ukraine," Budrys says in conversation with this site. #Litouwen #RussischeDreiging #Afschrikking (translated)

Three thousand unpublished books by amateur and other writers will receive a permanent place in the National Library, as a continuation of the Book Spectacle, an initiative of the Utrecht Library that offers unpublished works a platform. #onuitgegevenboeken #BibliotheekUtrecht #Boekenspektakel (translated)

The English writer and politician Jeffrey Archer, who passed away at the age of 86, led a tumultuous life marked by both political successes and legal scandals, and he published millions of books worldwide, often inspired by his own controversial experiences. #JeffreyArcher #Controverse #Biografie (translated)

Publishers have decided to stop the bundled sale of school books following a call from the Authority for Consumers and Markets, allowing schools to choose between only printed books, only digital teaching materials, or a combination of both. #onderwijs #schoolboeken #koppelverkoop (translated)