THE BOSCH – Hans Smolders leaves Brabant provincial politics. Earlier this morning, the 60-year-old Tilburger announced his departure from the national branch of Forum for Democracy. He will continue in the House of Representatives, as a member of parliament, Smolders stops completely.
The anti-Islamic movement Pegida to organize a "spontaneous" barbecue in front of the El Tawheed mosque in Amsterdam on Wednesday.
With his broadcaster Ongehoord Nederland! Arnold Karskens wants to be part of the public system. Can he still fight against it if he himself is part of it?
A week before the national commemoration of the dead, the importance of this day was underlined in our parliament; still use political scatterbrains only too happy to make the persecution of the Jews a ridiculous point.
The Public Prosecution has fined Forum for Democracy leader Thierry Baudet 95 euros imposed for violating the corona rules when visiting Urk. A criminal response could not be forthcoming, according to the Public Prosecution Service. Baudet will "happily pay" the fine, let his party know.
Forum for Democracy leader Thierry Baudet organizes an essay competition about the so-called ‘clownpill’, a concept from the extreme right-wing alt-right movement.
HOLY LAND FOUNDATION – Christian city, the radical right-wing Catholic foundation that, among other things, fights against abortion, leaves Heilig Landstichting. The organization is moving and is moving from the Pilgrim House next to the Cenakelkerk and is moving to a business building on the Kruisboog in Veenendaal.
Jeroen de Vries (rechts) in the Senate with Henk Otten. The former Forum voor Democracy spokesperson followed Otten after his split from the party. He now claims the vacant FvD seat in the Groninger States for Groep Otten.
Member of Parliament Yuri Pool (PVV) wants to become mayor of his own hometown of Kampen. The PVV member sent out his application letter today. It is exceptional that such an application becomes public, because there is a strict obligation of confidentiality surrounding application procedures for mayoral positions. But Pool consciously chooses to go public himself. “Everybody may know.”
The controversial platform Visor on the Left, that has been discredited several times in recent weeks, was taken offline tonight by Twitter.
Member of Parliament Wybren from Haga (FVD) has once again shared fake news from an openly anti-Semitic website on Twitter. Where he previously retweeted an openly anti-Semitic account and later spread fear and gross inaccuracies about the Israeli vaccination program in the Chamber, he now came up with a garish tweet about side effects of corona vaccines based on an anti-Semitic conspiracy website.
ENSCHEDE – Like some other mosques in the country, an intimidating letter has been delivered to the mosque in Enschede. In the envelope was a diaper with the texts 'Easter gift for the whiners in society' and 'Muhammed terrorist'. Mosque president Abdurrahman Bicici (52) has reported to the police.
During a demonstration of Pegida, the foreman of the group was pelted with paint. A woman has been arrested.
The Sweden Democrats’ TV program will bring out the party’s image of Sweden internationally. The first presenter is Eva Vlaardingerbroek, former representative of the Forum for Democracy in the Netherlands.
Sander Rietveld effortlessly points out the lines between theological views from the Protestant church and the nationalism of the radical right. Together they dream of strong men on white horses, that keep minorities out of their homogeneous kingdom.
Rapper Bilal Wahib, who gained some fame with a song about tigers, was discredited last week for offering a 12-year-old fan cash to take off his underpants during a live Instagram session.
The radical right-wing platform Vizier op Links intimidated historian Nadia Bouras and GroenLinks politician Huub Bellemakers, among others, by putting stickers on their front door. Various reports have now been filed and parliamentary questions have been asked, but the big question remains (and we don't have an answer to that yet): who is behind Vizier op Links? This is what we now know.
Almost everyone has left a long trail of personal data. More and more often that data is used to intimidate people. This form of intimidation, of doxing, is downright traumatic - and hardly prosecuted for the time being.
Strategic or not, Rutte flirts with JA21 as a coalition partner after having previously excluded Forum for Democracy and PVV. But is there such a difference between the electorate of these right-wing radical parties? New data shows that each of the parties is indeed pulling a unique and extra part of the electorate to the nationalist right, but the JA21 supporters are very similar to those of Forum, especially with regard to migration, integration and Europe.
Edwin Wagensveld of the extreme right-wing political movement Pegida goes on 31 March demonstrating against Kauthar Bouchallikht.
The owner of the online platform BackMe has removed the account from Vizier op Links, a radical right action platform. In recent days there has been a lot of fuss about stickers and pamphlets that have been delivered to various home addresses. The BackMe owner explicitly distances himself from the intimidation and fear that the platform is spreading.
The team leader at Albert Heijn who was insulted and harassed online for a year because she wore a headscarf during her work, is now 25 years old, graduated and has a job as a high school math teacher.
Aafke Romeijn is the fourth victim to file a complaint against the radical right-wing action platform Vizier op Links. The writer and musician says that the platform has distributed her address details via the chat service Telegram.
The SP will ask parliamentary questions about anonymous intimidation of opinion makers with a left-wing signature at their home address. Several people have found a sticker on their front door in recent weeks, which says they are being watched by followers of the platform "Vizier Op Links".