In the parliamentary elections in March 2021 does the new party “We are the Netherlands” in a small number of constituencies. The game comes from the extreme right-wing movement in the Netherlands and presents itself as a representative of the protest movement against the corona measures. Various candidates and supporters have an extreme right-wing background. Op 21 juni 2020 irons one… Read more
MIDDELBURG – The protest march in Middelburg against the corona measures passed without dissonance last weekend. At the same time, various groups that are often seen as radical right played an important role. Who were all present?
Stickers with swastikas on lampposts, arrested after shouting racist slogans and a Rotterdam group that disrupts a left action in Nijmegen. Examples of the extreme right in Rotterdam, or extreme right-wing activists from Rotterdam.
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.
More and more openly
Over the past few decades, it has become radical online- and extreme right-wing landscape has taken off. In addition, racist and dehumanizing statements are no longer only made under a pseudonym in a corner of the internet on a web forum like Stormfront., but increasingly openly shared on social media. This fact sheet has been prepared to gain more insight into this online world and its significance for the offline world. The online world fulfills various functions in this regard: recruiting, generate attention, mobiliseren, spread ideology, finding like-minded people, ideological justification, trolling and doxing, undermining social cohesion and government and entertainment. Although the online range of known physical (offline) radically- and extreme right-wing groups is relatively small and the threat of violence has been low for years, is there a continuation of a previously observed "threatening culture". Racist and dehumanizing messages are not distributed from major channels, but rather shared bottom-up by a network of individual users. These increased racist comments and hate speech contribute to further polarization and undermining of social cohesion, especially when it comes to dehumanization and increasing hostility towards groups with a migrant background. The online landscape is constantly changing. The information in the fact sheet is a snapshot of September 2020. We update this fact sheet periodically.
Thanks to a combination of increasing polarization, new internet possibilities and an ideological renewal of extreme right-wing groups in particular, in recent years there has been a revival of the phenomena of the extreme right and (in the shadow) extreme left observable in Western Europe. In the Netherlands has the refugee crisis (2013-2016) played a big role in this revival. In addition, the Zwarte Pieten discussion, which has been fed very fiercely for a few years now, seized, by both extreme- right than left, to speak of a culture war. The municipalities of Schiedam, Rotterdam, Vlaardingen and Maassluis want an answer to the question in response to these developments: “What are the dangers that arise from political extremist ideas within the region at the moment, and how can the municipalities respond effectively to this?Through qualitative research in the region, combined with the internet- and a literature search conducted in the period April-September 2019 has been performed, this report tries to answer this question.
Before you is the update of the 'fact sheet far right Dutch municipalities' in October 2018, in which a current picture sketched by the extreme right-wing organizations active in the Netherlands. This fact sheet should provide insight into the extent, Geographically, meaning and involvement in violent incidents of various extreme right-wing organizations in Netherlands.
The composition of the list of organizations and presented facts about these organizations gathered under the Project Monitor Racism, Anti-Semitism and extreme right violence in the Netherlands.
The NCTV published over the right-wing extremist violence threat since the first appearance of the Terrorist Threat Assessment Netherlands (DTN) in 2005. It is widely considered
threat to all developments which could potentially lead to terrorist violence. The history, but also the actuality, showed that terrorist violence is not confined to
jihadisme. In the National Counterterrorism Strategy 2016-2020 states that right-wing extremism, the attention of the NCTV.1 The right-wing extremism nevertheless became the
imaging is often obscured by the Jihadism. This is largely understandable because the jihadist threat of violence, in any case in the Netherlands, the last decade
determining factor has been the threat of terrorism.
The NCTV also published for this reason in recent years, several studies phenomenon in terms of Jihadism (For example, "Minors at ISIS 'from 2017). New domestic and international events and developments in the field of right-wing extremism and right-terrorism cause the phenomenon has gained in recent years of relevance to the threat.