This text is part of the quarterly research results 2 23 How to proceed after the convictions of the most important WLM activists? Three members of White Lives Matter (WLM) were convicted in March for racism and violence. During the hearing in court it turned out that these activists have all come into contact with the Ministry of Justice before. What effect… Read more
In February an article about White Lives Matter was published on our website, which describes which two members may be involved in the laser action on the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam. A few days after this publication, these two men were arrested by the police. These arrests are also (parts of) weapons found. De… Read more
Dreaming of a 'white' world without Jews Rarely has an extreme right-wing activist group in the Netherlands gained as much name recognition in such a short time as White Lives Matter Netherlands (WLM). During the turn of the year, the group projected racist texts on the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam with a laser, the location of the (canceled and adjusted) national fireworks display. This show became… Read more
Neo-Nazi posters have surfaced in the Ghent student neighborhood around the Blandijnberg. They are probably based on the Dutch organization Volksverzet. That organization has previously conducted similar poster campaigns in Dutch cities.
The past Yserwake may already be the Yserwake with the fewest number of participants in twenty editions, that inside- and attracting foreign neo-Nazis there remains the custom.
Members of the Popular Resistance, an organization of National Socialists, have put stickers on war memorial columns in the Oisterwijk forests in protest.
The extreme right-wing group Volksverzet has several places in Limburg, North Brabant, Gelderland and Noord-Holland pasted large posters with National Socialist texts on them.
In this monitor report right-wing extremism, attention is paid to the development of the extreme right-wing field in the Netherlands in 2020. This is done in a longitudinal context, whereby we always place the research period within the framework of a longer development. We first pay attention to the definition and demarcation of the term extreme right. We then provide insight into the manifestations and manifestations of the extreme right. Finally, we will discuss various forms of (government)response to the phenomenon.
Open sources have been used for the compilation of this overview, to a large extent primary sources: Publications, websites and other digital media channels of extreme right-wing organizations and their supporters, conversations with (voormalige) right-wing extremists and observations of public activities (demonstraties) of these organizations. The collected data was further analyzed and framed using existing literature on right-wing extremism in the Netherlands and compared and interpreted with insights from other observers of the extreme right field..
In spring 2021 the active support of the organized extreme right is consistently small and fragmented, the number of actions carried out modest and the threat of violence minimal. Recently, however, there has been a change in the dynamics surrounding the extreme right, the new
poses threats. In addition, in recent years there has been a reduction in
seeing the social and political resistance to the extreme right, extreme right
opinions and organizations.