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After rather hundreds of employees and students stated in an open letter that the board of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) should condemn the "genocide by Israel" and the "colonial violence", this week nineteen Jewish employees and students from various universities also demanded that universities "stand against the devastating war that Israel is waging.” They demand, among other...

Living alone, receiving disability benefits and psychological problems are common risk factors in middle-aged men who end their lives. Among men between the ages of forty and seventy for whom these three factors play a role, suicide is 14.5 times more common than the average at that age. This is evident from research by 113 Suicide Prevention...

On November 2, I still thought I was looking forward to the first SBS election debate ever. Pieter Omtzigt would not be there, but he was there on Thursday evening The Netherlands debate. Just before it started, I saw a tail of it The allies. Four teams of four 'allies' who must work together to...

Over the past sleepless weeks I have seen images and videos that will always haunt me. Palestinian parents carry the charred and mutilated bodies of their children in plastic bags to makeshift morgues, entire families with three generations lie crushed under their self-built house, exhausted doctors working desperately with flashlights and operate on patients without anesthesia, one of...

My father-in-law called that Carla, his lover, would die today or tomorrow. I was very calm. We decided not to tell our children until the time came. I took them to school and then walked around town. It was raining like it had been raining for a month. I was dripping. I stopped for...