(Dutch News) A pro-Palestinian activist has held a speech via video link outside a building at Nijmegen’s Radboud University after he was banned by the Dutch government and campus authorities.
Mohammed Khatib was due to give a lecture on the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, but the event was cancelled after he was refused entry to the country by justice minister David van Weel and asylum minister Marjolein Faber.
The university refused to allow students to follow the lecture online in the Spinoza building, prompting the organisers to move it to a nearby field. A demonstration protesting against Khatib’s exclusion was organised by a group called Nijmegen Encampment.
