JNS
Earlier estimates of the price tag of "campus occupation" spoke of $1.7 million
Anti-Israel protesters who occupied and vandalized the University of Amsterdam earlier this year caused about $4.4 million in damage, a Dutch news site reported on Wednesday.
Protesters caused the damage, initially estimated at $1.7 million, in May, according to the GeenStijl news site. The damage occurred around campus, where anti-Israel activists occupied facilities and public spaces for days.
There were also several riots at the university at around that time. One of them produced images that shocked the Jewish world, showing men wearing keffiyehs covering their faces wielding wooden planks and using them to forcefully hit Jewish students who staged a small counterprotest on campus.
The damage will come out of the 2024 budget of the University of Amsterdam, which is about €970 million ($1 billion), according to the school's financial report. Most of the damage owe to delays in the construction of a library, according to GeenStijl. But more than $1 million in damage was caused by vandalism of university property, including to the exterior of campus buildings.
