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The forgotten front: Dutch fighters in Ukraine

Vanaf 2012 attention was mainly focused on Westerners who joined massively with jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq. Much less attention was paid to another conflict: the war in eastern Ukraine. According to the Americans, the attraction fits in with the worldwide advance of right-wing extremism. Gijs Weijenberg and Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn zoom in on – and identified – Dutch travelers.

Geert Wilders on violence against journalists: "Journalists are scum of the ledge"

Journalists are – with exceptions – just scum of the ledge”, tweets PVV leader Geert Wilders in response to the violence against journalists. Yesterday it turned out that eight out of ten journalists sometimes experience aggression. They are then mistreated or threatened. Thirty percent even experience this monthly or more often. Many people reacted with horror to the news, but Wilders is going the other way.

What Nikki Sterkenburg encountered in radical- and the extreme right Netherlands

Op 20 May appears But you can't say that, the journalistic version of Nikki Sterkenburg's doctoral research (1984) did to the extreme right in the Netherlands, and on which they 19 May will receive a PhD from Leiden University. Vanaf 2015 she followed radically over forty- and right-wing activists. Who are they, what moves them, and how do they work? A pre-publication.

Investigation into the extreme right: "Some activists capable of an attack’

The government has too few eyes and ears in communities around right-wing extremist groups. That says former journalist Nikki Sterkenburg, who will receive his doctorate on Wednesday for research into right-wing extremism in the Netherlands. “Everyone was brought up against jihadism and the government was in the capillaries of the Muslim community. This is nil in this group.”