In spring 2016 some young men set up a partnership to study the extreme right. They baptize the Erkenbrand. After nearly two years of growth and development, the organization has significantly grown in importance. There is a fairly large and wide following and there are various links to the Forum for Democracy. And it is striking,… Read more
The civil war in Syria is after four years of fighting just become miserable and hopeless. Two of the warring parties, the Islamic State (IS) Al-Nusra, thereby making use of foreign sympathizers in extremist Muslim circles. In the meantime the first Dutch right-wing extremist, the twenty-four Ritchie Kolvers from Nijmegen, traveled to Syria. Om als supporter van… Read more
Radical groups to Lesbos to act as "journalists’ exploit the refugee crisis. A network of extreme right-wing groups from France, Austria, Duitsland, Belgium and the Netherlands moved to the Greek island of Lesbos in early March to use the migration crisis and the resulting violence as a backdrop for their propaganda videos. This is evident from a study by Pointer in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports.
The body that was fished up from the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal last week has been identified as the Albanian politician Festim Lato. The Dutch police confirm today that he was killed by a crime.
Prime Minister Ali Aliu says: "We suspect that he was murdered by or on behalf of the Greek far-right (almost neo-Nazi, red.) Golden Dawn party (Golden Dawn). She repeatedly said on television and social media that she did not tolerate Festim and threatened to kill him.”
A far-right group whose many members are better educated, we have not seen long in Netherlands. Striking, also find the AIVD. What Erkenbrand, what it stands for and who are the people behind it?
Far-right European politicians, Golden Dawn from Greece and Geert Wilders from the Netherlands, are attending a festival (Folkemodet) on the Danish island of Bornholm on 11-14 June.
The open-air political festival features prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt as a main speaker as well as most of the government, opposition party leaders, business representatives, trade unions, media and cultural celebrities.
The far-right political party Dutch People's Union (NVU) Since yesterday also politically active in Belgium. Party leader Constant Kusters confirms that in East Flanders and Brabant departments have been set up. The extreme right-wing splinter party in Flanders will also take part in elections.
Alexandros Lyris, a Golden Dawn member who is also part of the political party’s youth front, was rewarded with a job position in the European Parliament in Brussels. Lyris is now the new advisor to Golden Dawn's MEP Lambros Fountoulis.
A group that stands Thule Gezelschap calls, in Arnhem a “meeting with our Golden Dawn comrades“. Gouden Dageraad is an extreme right-wing party from Greece.
A Joan of Arc memorial in Parijs by extreme right groups. Here is a delegation from the Autonome Nationalisten Vlaanderen Also present with the Dutch Ben van der Kooi. He wears a shirt Gouden Dageraad. The march has about three hundred participants. There are slogans against Israel and chanted for a revolution. Someone posted stickers on the Dutch organization Brass Knuckle Brotherhood with the text “But not immigrating deport“.
From 11 t/m 14 June, held a general political festival on the Danish island Bornholm. Regular Danish politicians say their participation off if it becomes known that Geert Wilders of the PVV and prominent in the Nazi party Gouden Dageraad will speak from Greece. At the festival every year 100.000 mensen. The party leader Danskernes Parti has politicians Gouden Dageraad, Forza Nuova en Oeuvre Française invited. Ook Pegida Department wants to Denmark. hold on June 13 Geert Wilders an Islam-critical speech. his journey- and accommodation expenses are paid by the Danish Free Press Society.
De Autonome Nationalisten Vlaanderen organize a meeting in the province Antwerpen. The theme is “Against the repression of the system, European cooperation!”. The party of NVU, Constant Kusters, is one of the speakers. There are also Greeks present the Gouden Dageraad. In total there are about sixty visitors at this meeting, including a veteran of the Flemish Hitlerjugend. He sings lustily the soldiers song “I had’ a comrade” mee.
organized around this date B&H Netherlands a commemoration of the Beer Hall Putsch. Op 8 en 9 november 1923 a failed coup Adolf Hitler and his cronies in Munich. This event is commemorated annually in neo-Nazi circles, often as a counterpart to the Kristallnacht commemorations on the same date. The news of B&H Netherlands about this meeting is extremely brief. On their website they write the cryptic sentences: ” Images of the cowardly attack on the Gouden Dageraad members.” en ” commemoration in Dortmund by German comrades and some redheaded rats spoil things under police protection.”. In Winschoten organize people B&H network a concert with a Nazi German ballad singer.
After participating in a pro-Black Pete protest attracts a group of neo-Nazis in the Greek Embassy in Den Haag. Here they perform a short action the Greek neo-Nazi party Gouden Dageraad support. They take a picture with a flag Gouden Dageraad and places with a statement on Facebook.
This report is a quick scan of the municipality of Arnhem to extreme right. This makes research
clear in what form the extreme right may or may not manifest in Arnhem (both online
offline). Reason for this research two recent developments that have caused a reaction of extreme right-wing parties (and possibly bring in the future): the arrest of several suspected terrorists (2018) and the opening of a AZC (2016). Dit
Research is a qualitative study with part literature and part anthropological
fieldwork. Important here to mention that this is not a thorough investigation into this
phenomenon is (spread over a longer study period). It is a first attempt to understand what far-right parties are in Arnhem and to what extent they are active.
– CIDI registered 147 antisemitic incidents 2013 tegen 114 in 2012
– The total number of reported incidents has increased by 33 incidents
– Physical violence and threats fell together 6 to 4 incidents
– Scolding and harassment on the streets compared 2012 with 50%
increased, the number of incidents rose from 14 in 2012, to 21 incidents in 2013.
– Incidents with friends (neighbors, colleagues, peers) lanes 16
incidents in 2012 to 27 in 2013. The increase in the categories of work (+5) en school
(+6) explains the increase.
– All types of 'Real Life' incidents increased together 35 in 2012 to 42 in 2013.
– Written expressions are relative 2012 with more than 30% increased from 44
statements in 2012 to 60 statements in 2013. This increase is partly caused
by the increase in reported incidents on Twitter.
– Vandalism and graffiti of both Jewish and other goals
decreased from 14 incidents in 2012 to 10 in 2013.
– The number of incidents in the category of sports took this year off 13 in 2012 to 6
incidents in 2013.
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CIDI has been publishing 1983 annual overview of anti-Semitic incidents in the Netherlands. In this report, anti-Semitism is defined as: Jews treated differently than other people, and in particular your drawing hostile towards Jews on the basis of prejudice. Anti-Semitic incidents relate to events motivated by prejudice or hatred of the Jewish identity of the victim. This monitor uses a transparent and consistent registration system and thus provides an overview of developments in anti-Semitism in the Netherlands over the years. Reporting is not only important to indicate to what extent the number of incidents has increased- or decreased, but also shows the points on which policies should be developed.
Reported incidents have been reported in CIDI or one of the two main anti-discrimination agencies, in Amsterdam or radar near Rotterdam. In reports to the latter two agencies are carefully avoiding duplication. CIDI also hereby counts each incident only once, regardless of the number of reports on this subject.
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