Introduction

University campuses worldwide have become focal points for antisemitic, anti-Israel, and pro-terror activities, and academic institutions in the Netherlands are no exception. A number of radical non-governmental organizations (NGOs) work directly with students and faculty members to foment anti-Israel and anti-Jewish activities: promoting protests and encampments, distributing provocative publications, participating in campus events, and/or providing “educational” materials to students, and more.

These NGOs include Samidoun, Revolutionaire Eenheid, The Rights Forum, Plant een Olijfboom, the Groningen-Jabalya Foundation, the Nederlands Palestina Komitee, and the Kairos-Sabeel Netherlands Foundation. Under the guise of human rights and justice, these NGOs push their anti-Israel (and often antisemitic) agendas on university campuses, effectively intimidating and besieging Jewish students.

Many of the NGOs in this network have supported and justified the October 7 massacre as well as other violent attacks. Some are directly linked to Palestinian terror, and some are opaque regarding their funding and structure, as documented in detailed NGO Monitor research.

Antisemitic and Violent NGO Presence on Dutch Campuses

Samidoun

As documented in detail, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, founded in 2011, is closely linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization, designated as such by the EU, US, Canada, and Israel. A common theme of Samidoun demonstrations and rhetoric is the legitimacy and importance of “armed resistance.” For instance, at an April 30, 2023 event in Ottawa, Canada, Samidoun founder and head, Khaled Barakat, called on participants to “salute” the military wings of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the PFLP, as well as Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed terror groups. Additionally, on April 8, 2023, Samidoun held a demonstration in Berlin, in which protesters chanted violent and antisemitic chants. According to the German NGO “democ. e.V.,” a video from the protest in Berlin features a large crowd of protesters chanting in Arabic such slogans as: “Death to the Jews!,” “Death, death, death Israel!,” “I generate the bloody body!,” “With our soul and our blood, we liberate al-Aqsa!,” “Oh, Qassam Brigade (Hamas’ military wing), vengeance, vengeance!,” “Tel Aviv, the answer will come!” and  “Oh, Qassam, day by day!”

Funding

  • Samidoun does not publish financial information, reflecting a lack of transparency and accountability.
  • According to its website, “Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is a fiscally sponsored project of the Alliance for Global Justice, a 501(c)(3) Organization” (the American equivalent of a Dutch ANBI designation) – allowing it to receive tax deductible donations in the US. 
    • In August 2021, the Discover credit card company shut down credit card donations to the Alliance for Global Justice after the Zachor Legal Institute pressured the company, citing Alliance for Global Justice’s relationship with Samidoun.
    • Since February 2023, Alliance for Global Justice is unable to accept credit card donations for itself or the 140 groups (including Samidoun) that it fiscally sponsors. This followed several Washington Examiner reports that exposed the links between Samidoun and the PFLP.
  • According to its website, “Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is a grassroots, unfunded organization. We rely on the support of people like you to make our work possible.”

Legal Designations

  • Samidoun was incorporated in 2021 in Canada as a not-for-profit organization.
  • In February 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense designated Samidoun a terrorist organization and “a subsidiary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).” 
  • Founder and head Khaled Barakat lived in Germany from 2016 to 2019, but his application for a residency permit extension was rejected, and a four-year entry ban was imposed, “owing specifically to what the German Interior Ministry called Barakat’s proclivity for violent, antisemitic rhetoric.” In March 2022, the Berlin Administrative Court (VG Berlin), rejected his appeal, finding that Barakat “is at least close to the PFLP,” and that he “repeatedly participated in activities of the PFLP in Germany and/or appeared publicly under the PFLP label.”
  • In November 2023, Germany banned Samidoun for violating its Basic Law (Article 9(2)) and its Associations Act; namely, it “impairs and endangers the peaceful coexistence of Germans and foreigners,” “advocates and calls for the use of violence as a means of enforcing political interests,” and “supports associations that initiate, advocate and threaten attacks against people or property.”
  • According to media reports, in April 2024, the Belgian government accused Samidoun’s coordinator in Europe, Mohammed Khatib, of being an “extremist hate preacher” and moved to expel him from the country.
  • In June 2024, Switzerland imposed a 10-year entry ban on Khatib. According to a Swiss government spokesperson, this occurs “only when an individual poses what is considered a ‘concrete’ threat to national security.”
  • On October 2, 2024, Dutch lawmakers passed a parliamentary resolution calling for Samidoun to be banned in the Netherlands due to its role in spreading antisemitism and glorifying violence. As of February 2026, this resolution has yet to be acted on.
  • In October 2024, the US and Canada issued joint statements listing Samidoun as a terrorist entity. The US called Samidoun a “sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization” and designated Samidoun head Khaled Barakat, “a member of the PFLP’s leadership” who played a “critical [role] in external fundraising for the PFLP.”
  • In April 2025, Mohammed Khatib, Samidoun’s coordinator for Europe, was arrested in Belgium after being designated by the Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA) as a “serious” security threat. In August 2025, Belgium revoked Khatib’s refugee status. Belgium authorities claimed “Khatib is a radical hate preacher who openly supports groups like Hamas and the PFLP . . . There is no place in Belgium for extremists who glorify terrorism.”

Support for Hamas Atrocities and Terror

  • On October 7, 2023, Samidoun posted, “As the morning dawns on 7 October 2023, the resistance (euphemism for Palestinian terrorists) is rising throughout occupied Palestine, smashing the siege on Gaza with a comprehensive offensive confronting the occupier by land and air, taking control of Palestinian land, seizing occupation settlers and soldiers and launching thousands of missiles as Palestinian resistance forces fight to advance return and the liberation of Palestine.”  Samidoun then called on its allies to “express their support for the heroic Palestinian resistance, raise the flag of Palestine and the banners of resistance, and organize popular, political and media demonstrations and events to expose the Zionist crimes against our people in occupied Palestine…The heroic Palestinian resistance has opened a chapter of battles of dignity and pride at the dawn of October 7, 2023” (emphases added).
  • In December 2019, Khatib participated in an event celebrating the 52nd anniversary of the PFLP’s establishment.
  • Describing an October 10, 2023 rally it had organized in Seattle, Samidoun’s chapter in Seattle, Oregon, USA published a statement that “Demonstrators showed support for the successful Flood of Al Aqsa (Hamas’ name for the October 7 massacre) resistance operation and condemned the Zionist retaliatory strikes against Palestinian civilians in Gaza and 75 years of oppression, ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism” (emphasis added).
  • In August 2024, Samidoun’s International Coordinator Charlotte Kates traveled to Iran to accept the “Eighth Annual Islamic Human Rights And Human Dignity Award,” as one of six recipients, alongside the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Ziyad Nakhaleh. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who had been killed in Iran in late July 2024, was also honored at the event.
  • In May 2024, Kates was arrested as part of a Vancouver, Canada hate-crime investigation after she praised the Oct. 7 attack as “heroic and brave” and called for the removal of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and several other groups from the list of terrorist organizations.
  • At a March 2024 event, Kates stated, “There is nothing wrong with being a member of Hamas, being a leader of Hamas, being a fighter in Hamas.”

Presence on Dutch Campuses

  • On May 9, 2024, Samidoun co-wrote a report with Revolutionaire Eenheid entitled “Report of the ‘Battle for Amsterdam’: Long live the student struggle!” In it, they wrote that “Samidoun is organically involved in this [student] movement because we fully support the demands of openness, boycott and divestment and our members include students from the relevant educational institutions. Second, we recognize the absolute leadership of the students and teachers in this movement, represented by various organizations, and we do only what we can to strengthen this movement” (emphasis added).
  • On October 28, 2024, Mohammed Khatib delivered a lecture at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. On May 14, 2024, Khatib spoke at the Radboud campus encampment.
    • Also in October 2024, Khatib was meant to give a different lecture at Radboud University, however the Netherlands banned Khatib from entering over his membership in Samidoun. According to Asylum and Migration Minister Marjolein Faber, “There is absolutely no place in the Netherlands for sowing hatred, glorifying violence and spreading antisemitism.”
  • Harry Pettit – formerly an Assistant Professor of Geography at Radboud University who has notoriously claimed that “Palestinian resistance fighters unravelled and punctured western-zionist barbarism in so many ways on October 7th 2023. We owe them so, so much gratitude” and described Hamas’ October 7 attacks as “a legitimate and successful resistance operation” (emphases added) – praised and promoted Samidoun’s activities on many occasions:
    • On October 24, 2024, Pettit promoted Khatib’s Radboud lecture, which was part of a series “organized by a collective of academics from various disciplines at Radboud University – including geography.”
    • On May 14, 2024, Pettit praised the “Powerful speech from Mohammed Khatib from Samidoun” at the Radboud encampment, encouraging people to “Come visit tomorrow!”
    • On September 8, 2025, Pettit posted a photo of himself with Khatib, describing the latter as his “friend and comrade” (emphasis added).

Harry Pettit (L) and Mohammed Khatib (R). Photo retrieved from @HarrygPettit on X.

    • On August 7, 2025, after Khatib’s arrest in Belgium, Pettit tweeted, “Belgium has revoked the refugee status of Samidoun coordinator Mohammed Khatib. This is another disgusting attack on migrant rights, and Palestinian rights to resist their oppression. Mohammed is a hero. He will appeal the decision. We all stand with him” (emphases added). In another post, Pettit referred to Khatib’s arrest as a “kidnapping.”
  • On May 6, 2024, Samidoun published a statement in which the organization expressed that they “fully support” the student encampment at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and encouraged people, students and otherwise, to join.
  • Samidoun’s logo was present at the May 6, 2024 encampment on the UvA Roeterseiland campus (see photo below).

Photo retrieved from @ANanninga on X.

  • On May 4, Revolutionaire Eenheid (RE) posted a photo of Samidoun’s and RE’s logos at a separate UvA campus encampment (see photo below).
  • On February 7, 2022, Samidoun Netherlands protested the arrival of Israeli diplomat Karin Eliyahu-Pery on the UvA Roeterseiland campus. Their demonstration included the use of Samidoun paraphernalia on campus (see photo below).

Photo retrieved from the Samidoun website.

  • In March 2018, Samidoun claimed that “Samidoun activists and many other Palestine solidarity organizers have met, organized and spoken in events and meetings held in this space [on the Vrije Universiteit (VU) campus in Amsterdam].”

Revolutionaire Eenheid (RE; Revolution Unity)

RE is “a revolutionary communist organization in the Netherlands,” founded in 2016, that “believe[s] in the complete overthrow of capitalism and its institutions. We draw inspiration from Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and other revolutionary ideologies and study them together.” RE claims to be “an active member of Masar Badil” – which describes itself as “a framework and a popular resistance movement confronting Zionist colonialism and the project of liquidation and surrender” (emphasis added) – and “also active in the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.” As described below, RE supported Hamas’ October 7 attacks and spreads PFLP ideology in the Netherlands. 

Funding

  • RE does not publish any financial information, reflecting a lack of transparency and accountability.

Support for Terrorism

On Saturday morning, October 7th, the Palestinian resistance launched the large-scale liberation operation “Al-Aqsa Storm.” In a comprehensive offensive, the border was breached from Gaza by land and air, Palestinian territory was reclaimed, dozens of settlers and occupation soldiers were taken hostage, and thousands of rockets were fired. As a Revolutionary Unity, we salute the brave Palestinian people and their resistance (emphasis in original) …. We call on all progressive, left-wing, and revolutionary organizations and comrades to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance in all forms, including armed resistance, and to end all Dutch support for the Zionist colonization of Palestine (emphasis added)…. We reaffirm our commitment to building a revolutionary front that will fight for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea In the words of the martyr [former PFLP spokesperson] Ghassan Kanafani: ‘The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians alone, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever they may be, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses of our time….. Glory to the martyrs…! (emphasis in original).

  • In April 2018, RE promoted and distributed the PFLP’s manifesto, The Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine (1969).
  • On December 17, 2017, RE published a statement “salut[ing] the PFLP on its 50th anniversary”: “While Fatah has been pursuing a path of capitulation and negotiations for decades, and Hamas is moving toward recognition of ‘Israel,’ the PFLP remains steadfast in its pursuit of the liberation of all of Palestine and the establishment of a single democratic state throughout Palestine. The PFLP’s correctness has been proven time and again: the enemies of the Palestinian people remain imperialism, Zionism, and Arab reactionary regimes.… It is our task to combat these enemies in the Netherlands and to support the Palestinian struggle wherever possible” (emphasis added).
  • On January 30, 2016, RE co-hosted with Samidoun and others a “Women Against Imperialism“ panel in Amsterdam that featured Leila Khaled, whom the NGOs referred to as a “Palestinian resistance icon.”
    • Khaled is a former PFLP terrorist who participated in armed hijackings of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970.

Presence on Dutch Campuses

  • On May 14, 2024, RE posted a photo of the student encampment at Radbound University and wrote, that “There is a friendly warm atmosphere at the encampment in Nijmegen.”
  • On May 8, 2024, RE posted a video on Instagram of an anti-Israel protest at a UvA campus with the caption, “Police are extremely violent at the UVA! I support the studentntifada! Get rid of UVA management! Stop student repression! End all ties with the Israeli apartheid regime! Join in!” (emphasis added).
  • On May 7, 2024, RE posted a video on Instagram of a campus protest at the UvA Roeterseiland campus that includes the text, “Strength in numbers!!! Dare to Struggle! Join us!!!” (emphasis added).
  • RE’s logo – alongside Samidoun’s – was printed on banners at the May 6, 2024 encampment on the UvA Roeterseiland campus. (See photo above.)
  • On May 4, 2024, RE posted a photo of Samidoun’s and RE’s logos at a separate UvA campus encampment. (See photo above.)
  • On May 18, 2023, RE claimed that “This week, the University of Amsterdam, like other universities, was occupied. … As RE, we are active in various occupations and support the coalition’s demands” (emphasis added).
  • In February 2018, RE organized a lecture by PFLP terrorist-covict Rasmea Odeh at the VU campus in Amsterdam.
    • In 1970, Rasmea Odeh was found guilty of “participating in the 1969 murder of two Jewish students, Leon Kanner and Eddie Joffe in an attack on a Jerusalem supermarket” on behalf of the PFLP.

The Rights Forum

The Rights Forum is a Dutch organization, established by former Dutch Prime Minister Andreas van Agt in 2009, that lobbies the Dutch government and the EU to promote a crudely anti-Israel agenda. It claims that it was created in response to alleged “unwavering” Dutch support for alleged Israeli violations of international law.

Funding

Support for Terrorism, Holocaust Inversion, and Atrocity Denial

  • On November 12, 2025, the Rights Forum published a report titled: “Palestinian resistance is allowed, even armed” (emphasis added).
  • On July 11, 2025, the Rights Forum stated that “Israel is working on a pitch-black ‘final solution’ for Palestinians in Gaza” (emphasis added).
  • On July 9, 2025, the Rights Forum alleged that “Concentration camps are the next step in genocide against Palestinians” (emphasis added).
  • In October 2024, the Rights Forum published an article titled, “How Israeli Propaganda Swept the World After ‘October 7‘,” promoting a book by the conspiracist Max Blumenthal, that alleged, “In reality, one baby died on October 7.” 
    • On October 7, 2023, thousands of Palestinian terrorists poured across the border from Gaza into Israel, murdering 1,200 people, and torturing and maiming thousands, including 38 children, three of which were aged between 0 and 3 years old, and four between 3 and 6 years old. Babies and toddlers were found butchered, decapitated, and even burned alive in the remnants of the various Israeli kibbutzim.

Presence on Dutch Campuses

  • On their website, The Rights Forum (TRF) states that “On request, we contribute to projects, lessons and other forms of information provision, both at schools and universities and at organisations, governments and companies.”
  • TRF’s Advisory Council includes two university professors currently teaching in the Netherlands:
  • The “agenda” section of TRF’s website includes information about a recurring “reading group” event on the Tilburg University campus. The reading group has been promoted by @tilberg.encampment, an account dedicated to organizing and facilitating campus protests, raising questions about the relationship between TRF and campus protests.

Plant een Olijfboom (Plant an Olive Tree)

Plant an Olive Tree is a Dutch organization, founded in 2015, which promotes an aggressively anti-Israel agenda under the guise of “[supporting] Palestinians by increasing awareness about the situation in Palestine and showing solidarity by sponsoring olive trees and providing other forms of support.”

Funding

Concerning Partnerships and Rhetoric

  • A February 2025 public correspondence between Former Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium, Sarah Smeyers, and Flemish Minister of Welfare and Poverty Reduction, Culture and Equal Opportunities, Caroline Gennez, reveals that “’Plant an Olive Tree’ works together with the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee (PARC),” due to the latter being “able to secure local access to the field at times when other (Western) organizations did not yet have access.”
    • Judeh Deeb Ibrahim Jamal, founder of PARC, was formerly the General Director of Qatar Charity. In 2015, the Israeli Military Court convicted him for his activity in the Qatar Charity – an illegal organization in Israel due to being “part of Hamas’s fundraising network” – and for his transferring of funds to Hamas (on file).
  • On June 18, 2023, Plant an Olive Tree posted a video to X for Father’s Day in which the NGO honored Walid Daqqa and Khader Adnan.
    • Walid Daqqa, a member of the PFLP, was sentenced in 1987 to life in prison for the kidnapping and murder of Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam.
    • Khader Adnan was a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a terrorist organization designated as such by the EU.

PMRS

As stated above, in 2021, Plant an Olive Tree transferred €15,963.99 to the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS). President of PMRS Mustafa Barghouti has participated in events organized by, or tied to, Hamas and the PFLP:

Presence on Dutch Campuses

  • Plant an Olive Tree has endorsed dozens of protests on and petitions to universities across the Netherlands.
  • On November 21, 2024, Plant an Olive Tree endorsed a fundraising event for its own organization, held on the grounds of an elementary school (Caland Lyceum) in Amsterdam.
  • Plant an Olive Tree’s website encourages their followers to distribute “flyers and leaflets in strategic places in your school, university, youth centre, sports club, church, library, fair trade shop, cafes, mosque, theatre, olive delicatessen shop, workplace, train etc. (emphasis added).”
  • On May 8, 2024, Plant an Olive Tree called on their followers to “Go now and support the students” in their encampment on the campus of Utrecht University.

Groningen-Jabalya Foundation

The Groningen-Jabalya Foundation, which has been ANBI-registered since 2014, is a Dutch NGO that aims to foster a friendship between the city of Groningen in the Netherlands and Jabalya, a city in the northern Gaza Strip. While not an official sister city partnership, the foundation has facilitated exchanges, including financial ones, between the two municipalities. In recent years, the foundation has been actively involved in anti-Israel legal advocacy.

Funding

  • Groningen-Jabalya is funded by the municipality of Groningen.
    • According to the organization, “The Groningen – Jabalya foundation receives an annual subsidy from the municipality of Groningen. All activities are funded from this (rental of hall space, printing costs, website costs, sending newsletters, travel costs, etc.). Our – very modest – organizational costs are also covered by this municipal subsidy. This means that all euros for emergency aid are transferred to the PMRS (emphasis added; see more about PMRS above).”
    • In 2024, Groningen-Jabalya requested EUR 4,200 from the municipality of Groningen.

Presence on Dutch Campuses

  • On April 1, 2023, the Dutch branch of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) wrote that “a series of events took place in the context of Israeli Apartheid Week in two of the University of Groningen’s historic buildings. Whereas IAW activities had been organized in the University of Groningen on four previous occasions by just two individuals, this year’s program was the result of efforts by the recently formed organization Groningen for Palestine (GfP), which emerged as a result of last year’s IAW events. In addition to GfP, the panel events of 14 and 16 March were co-organized in collaboration with the Groningen-Jabalya Foundation” (emphasis added).
    • These events included an address from Ahmed Abofoul, a legal advisor at ‎Al-Haq.
      • On September 4, 2025, Al-Haq was sanctioned by the US.
      • On October 22, 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense designated Al-Haq a terrorist entity, identifying it as operating “on behalf of the Popular Front [for the Liberation of Palestine].” 
      • In May 2018, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express shut down online credit card donations to Al-Haq due to the group’s ties to the PFLP. 
      • For more information on Al-Haq staff members’ links to the PFLP, see NGO Monitor’s report.
    • Groningen-Jabalya continues to be involved in organizing “Israeli Apartheid Week” in Groningen.
  • Groningen-Jabalya cooperates with “solidarity organizations such as student organization Groningen for Palestine (emphasis added).” 
    • Groningen for Palestine has openly expressed its “solidarity with” Hamas’ October 7 massacre.

Nederlands Palestina Komitee (NPK)

Founded in 1969, NPK, which claims to “[support] the struggle of the Palestinians against the Zionist project in Palestine,” is one of the oldest Dutch anti-Israel organizations. NPK “aims to achieve its objectives by disseminating information, influencing public opinion and politics, building pressure on Israel, and providing material and immaterial support to the Palestinians.”

Funding

NPK does not release financial details or donation amounts, reflecting a lack of transparency and accountability.

Involvement in Terrorism in the 1970s

  • In 1979, Ibrahim Al-Baz – one of NPK’s three board members as of February 2026 – was arrested in Paris after being caught in possession of four and a half kilograms of explosives inside of a suitcase, which “were intended for (one of) his Palestinian friends in Berlin.”
  • In 1974, two Dutch members of the Leiden branch of NPK were caught and arrested at the Israeli-Jordanian border for carrying a letter that explained how to build a bomb.

Presence on Dutch Campuses

  • On February 24, 2024, NPK held an event at CREA, the “student cultural centre for students at the [University of Amsterdam] and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences,” on the University of Amsterdam’s Roeterseiland campus (emphasis added). The event was co-organized with the Islamic Student Association of the University of Amsterdam and attendees were informed that “all revenue will be directed to support Palestine,” without explicitly revealing where funds would be directed.
  • According to NPK’s 2024 Annual Report, “In 2024, NPK organized or participated in several public events in cities such as . . . Rotterdam (University of Applied Sciences)” (emphasis added).

Kairos-Sabeel Netherlands Foundation 

The Kairos-Sabeel Netherlands Foundation (KSNF) was founded as a merger between Kairos Palestine Netherlands and Friends of Sabeel Netherlands in 2016. KSNF describes itself as “a knowledge network focused on Palestinian (liberation) theology” that  “support[s] the call from Kairos Palestine and the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Centre for churches and politicians worldwide to exert pressure on Israel in a nonviolent, effective, and creative way, in order to compel Israel, as a strong military power, to reach a just peace settlement with the Palestinians in their oppressed and weakened position.”

Funding

  • KSNF, which has ANBI status in the Netherlands, reportedly received EUR 11,627 in donations in 2024.

Antisemitism

Applying “liberation theology,” KSNF, like its partner organization Sabeel, uses  deicide imagery and supercessionist rhetoric – for example, that Palestinians represent a modern-day version of Jesus’ suffering – to demonize Israel and Judaism.1 Examples of such imagery, rhetoric and extremism from a  July 2025 conference on Palestinian Liberation Theology, organized by KSNF in Helvoirt, included:

  • A keynote speech by Palestinian Minister Munther Isaac on “Christ in the Rubble. Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza.” (emphasis added)
  • A keynote speech by Palestinian theologian Dr. Yousef AlKhouri on “Ecclesiacide: The destruction of the body of Christ in Gaza.” (emphasis added)
  • A panel on “Solidarity through resistance from within the empire.” (emphasis added)

Naim Ateek, founder of Sabeel, frequently employs antisemitic themes and imagery. In his book, A Palestinian Theology of Liberation (2017), Ateek accuses Judaism of being a “racist theology” centred around “a god who has been created in the image of those who are thirsty for revenge” and rooted in “exclusive biblical texts that are being used to justify the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians” (emphases added).

Presence on Dutch Campuses

  • KSNF Co-Chair Dr. Janneke Stegeman is a lecturer at the VU in Amsterdam and coordinator of a VU course named “Emoena [the Dutch transliteration of the Hebrew word for ‘belief’]: leadership, diversity and meaning.”
    • In response to a February 2018 Trouw article on terrorist-convict Rasmea Odeh’s aforementioned guest lecture at the VU, Stegeman tweeted, “The occupying power’s [Israel’s] military court convicted Rasmea Odeh in 1970 [see above]. One hopes that the VU, true to its slogan, will look further and ask a few questions about the eager framing of Odeh as a terrorist.” (emphasis added)
    • In 2011, according to the VU website, Stegeman delivered two lectures on the problematic Kairos Document, which promotes BDS; denies the Jewish historical connections to Israel in theological terms; and rationalizes, justifies, and trivializes terrorism, calling it “legal resistance.”
    • In 2011, Stegeman organized a conference at the VU titled “’The Hour of Truth’, the Palestinian Kairos document in the Netherlands.”