Protestors disrupt defence ministry university lecture

Free Palestine campaigners disrupted a speech by defence minister Ruben Brekelmans at the University of Amsterdam on Wednesday evening, causing the minister to break off his lecture for 15 minutes. The demonstrators, who were outside the room where Brekelmans was giving his talk, chanted and banged on windows in an effort to prevent him from being heard. Brekelmans had been invited by student organisation Room for Discussion to be interviewed in front of an audience. The police were called to...