How to help students at the encampment

If you have been following the student protests in support of Palestine, and are wondering how you can help, this page is for you. We understand that not everyone has the same commitment, abilities, know-how, or time and resources to be able to help. For this reason, we have listened to the students and gathered different ways in which they have expressed they can use our help. This page lists what you can do.

Ways to help the students in their struggle to get Radboud to disclose, boycott, and divest from Israeli institutions:

Sign the Radboud-specific open letter by emailing [email protected]
Sign the national open letter from university staff across the Netherlands by filling out the google form
Send an email to the CvB (per the students' request) to call for support for their demands and to condemn police actions on campus against our students
Bring up Palestine and the student demands in the Joint Assembly and other University codetermination meetings
Talk to your Deans and your Faculty Council about the need to support the student demands and to publicly state they will not cooperate with Israeli institutions
Reach out to (senior) colleagues and ask them to also speak out in support of the students and their demands and show up for events and meetings.
Show and continue to show your support for the students, their demands, and their right to protest. Show up for events, talk to students at the encampment.
Talk about Palestine. Talk with colleagues, friends, relatives, and acquaintances. Try to convince them of the scope and urgency of the issue. Explain the reasons for divesting, cutting ties, and boycotting Israeli institutions and companies, and how this has been proven to empower Israeli academics to also pressure their government. Ask them to chip in using any of the ways listed here if they are comfortable.
Strongly condemn (police) violence being enacted upon our students, and speak out and speak up about this.
Participate in 'Empty Shoes: Difficult Steps', a space of contemplation, dialogue and relating with the heart and body to the violence and our role in it. You can donate and/or take a pair of shoes that represents one child that didn't get the chance to grow up, and place it in a growing line of empty shoes. You can start your trail at the wheelbarrow near the MM bicycle parking.
Donate money to the encampment (ask students at the encampment or colleagues about the available options).
Contact [email protected] if you want to get more actively involved

This list is non-exhaustive and will be edited and updated periodically as events unfold.

Collecting experiences of social unsafety re: talking about Palestine on campus

While social unsafety is used as a way to smear the student encampment and other student-led actions to pressure the University to disclose, boycott, and divest, many students and employees who do want to talk about Palestine and the importance of these demands experience a lot of pressure to stay silent. A socially unsafe situation has been created, where people are scared to speak out due to intimidation by CIDI as well as (well-meaning) colleagues warning them that speaking out may hurt their careers.

We want to collect your experiences so that we may have evidence to refer to when adressing this issue of social unsafety with the University leadership.

Email [email protected] to share your experiences, and indicate whether you are sharing these anonymously or perhaps for someone else.