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
A lot has been written about the Forum for Democracy in recent years. Many scandals have been revealed and the party has been torn apart due to severe anti-Semitism and racism within the party. In addition, the inimitable policy choices made by party leader Thierry Baudet exacerbated the dichotomy. His current focus is on critics of the corona measures and ignoring basic safety agreements… Read more
broadcasting order – Just like Fox News, Ongehoord Nederland will look for unrest and turmoil. Thinking that it will be easy with disinformation is naive, writes
Thierry Baudet accuses YouTube of censorship because his corona-critical videos have been removed. But according to the judge, that is not the case. The video platform can remove videos of the politician if it wants to.
Thierry Baudet is in court today opposite YouTube, because he accuses the video platform of 'censorship'. Although legal scholars doubt that this is true, is the case an interesting one?: how far does the website's power extend now that it has removed the Forum leader's speeches?
The best minds in the Netherlands will talk about developments in their field this summer. This week Cas Mudde (54). He has been studying the radical right all his working life. “We started talking as if the radical right were the people.”
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.
What makes orthodox Christians susceptible to radical and populist ideas? Sander Rietveld, raised Calvinistically, researched the funding of politicians such as Trump and Baudet. He wrote a book about the culture war that has spread from Christian America to the Netherlands since the 1970s.
A candidate on the Forum for Democracy election list, Ab Kuijer (place 31), deals in far-reaching conspiracy theories on his website and Twitter account. For example, he suggests that Prime Minister Mark Rutte is a pedophile and that billionaires George Soros and Bill Gates are behind the corona pandemic.
The international character of the corona pandemic offers the extreme right in Europe an opportunity to grow. The Netherlands seems to have gotten away with it. ,,We are not Poland or Germany. ""
During the "curfew riots," countless men roared and looted the streets. Is this "toxic masculinity" a rearguard action or the prelude to a new patriarchy??
Crown fill – Like Trump in the US, Wilders and Baudet feed the aggression and violence on the street here, writes
IJMUIDEN – The Amsterdam police are investigating the behavior of Defend IJmuiden during the corona demonstration on Museumplein that got out of hand. The group has "misbehaved quite a bit," according to a spokesman. It is not the first time that the police are targeting the inhabitants of IJmuiden.
Conspiracy thinkers like Lange Frans, Willem Engel and Alex Jones are part of an international movement with roots in the Cold War. A world of government-fearing oil barons, right-wing Christians and the American John Birch Society.
A woman with a tea light sweetly sings "You're the Voice". A man in the street shouts out, "Heil Hitler!’. They have more in common than it seems. Both protest against the corona measures.
reviews – Annette van Bolhuis, psychologist and relationship therapist, believes that Forum for Democracy leader Thierry Baudet is irresponsible with his views on corona. She wrote him an open letter.
QAnon is by far the most popular conspiracy theory in the Netherlands. Wherein lies the attraction?
Forum for Democracy is falling in the polls, the position of leader Thierry Baudet is under pressure. For their book My opinions are facts Harm Ede Botje and Mischa Cohen spoke with friend and foe about the controversial party leader. Hans Wiegel: "Baudet is not a politician."
Between the privacy activists, Hooligans and conspiracy theorists also turn up people associated with radical right-wing organizations at Virus Truth demonstrations. What make the coronasceptic ideas interesting for the ultra-right, vice versa?
A far-right conspiracy theory is gaining an increasing and more dangerous following in the US. President Donald Trump and the Republican party play into the hands of the QAnon movement and politicians in the Netherlands also flirt with it. Of course anti-Semitism lies close to the surface.
The Forum for Democracy meeting at the US Embassy was fundraising from the book, argues fundraiser Eelco Keij.
No, he had nothing to do with delusions. Member of Parliament Wybren van Haga, also owner of real estate company Sjopperdepop BV, raised his hands to his head, a dramatic gesture in which viewers had to see empathy. "On the one hand, you have people who have delusions. They are just there. "
Forum for Democracy organized a party meeting at the American embassy in The Hague, hosted by Ambassador Pete Hoekstra. This is at odds with international treaties.
With the outbreak of corona an information chemistry also broke out. Conspiracy thinkers of the old school merge online with hip influencers with a reach of millions, according to research together with the Utrecht Data School. It only takes one superspreader to keep an avalanche of conspiracies going on.
Conservative thought once stood for skeptical thinking about the human condition, for the realization that existence can only be regulated to a limited extent. So why are conservatives now selling their souls to the fires of the radical right?
Radical right-wing nationalist thinkers find refuge in Hungary. The country is seen as "an interesting experiment" because it allows for the "revival of certain traditional values and ideas". Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is an inspiring example.
Cancel culture is advancing: organized actions on social media to stifle dissent in an atmosphere of reproach, clicks at employers and calls for boycotts. How effective is exclusion culture? The phenomenon dissected.
Populism can be accurately determined by the language used by politicians, the thesis shows how Carola Schoor obtained her doctorate cum laude. In the Netherlands do Geert Wilders, Thierry Baudet and Emile Roemer are hardly close to each other.
Coronaprotest – Maybe Danny Vonk said "something bad" to CDA MP Pieter Omtzigt after the demonstration against corona policy. But then that was not meant personally. No politician is right, zegt hij. They are pawns of the elite, of the pharmaceutical industry.
In the past few months, the virus madmen have been on the rise. Their demonstrations come in rapid succession and their claims are getting more absurd by the day. Despite this, the far-right disinformation campaigns seem to be having an effect.
Conspiracy theory – Rapper Lange Frans had conspiracy thinker Janet Ossebaard in an interview uncontested all kinds of accusations against a large part of the Dutch elite. Up to murder fantasies.
WHEN DONALD TRUMP claimed his administration would be “designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization [so]” the day before threatening to send the military to quell nationwide protests against racist police violence earlier this summer, he found a notable voice of support in Thierry Baudet, leader of the Dutch far-right party Forum for Democracy (FVD).
Raise the day before Easter. Thierry Baudet had appeared at GeenStijl and yes, z’n masker a lot weer for once.
This week: a remarkable incident on the margins of all the corona news. either: how Baudet arranged for a Putin vassal to speak in Parliament.
In the radio program On the way (IT'S THE) is a businessman and lawyer Cor Verkade guest. His conservative views, he makes no secret of. He regularly makes positive about Donald Trump in the public debate on social media. He also supports Thierry Baudet. As an entrepreneur in real estate leasing a building at Forum for Democracy.
Ko Colijn read the interview with professor and FVD-chairman of the Senate Paul Cliteur in De Volkskrant, and was slightly detuned. Step by step he dissects the interview. "Cliteur has nothing to say that we do not already know."
Media Logic investigates how social media has created a refined game of sowing hatred and polarization, and who have an interest in. A game with online manuals explaining how you can view by pressing and making opponents silenced.
Political scientist Cas Mudde warns in his book The Far Right Today for the normalization of the radical right ideas. also affects De Volkskrant blame?
About certain things you can not joke, find politically correct left. Since playing extreme right handed people in, sees writer Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, by doing any dishonest verdict as "ironic" off.
It's time, says the world renowned political scientist Cas Mudde (52): radical on the right has become mainstream complete. A conversation about how it has achieved, and where we are now - from xenophobia to sexism. "People like Thierry Baudet to be a taboo breaker, which allegedly testifies of guts. "
jokes, clownish mischief and irrational behavior have claimed their place in the center of power. The polarizing power of humor contributes to a feeling of us-versus-them.
Alt-light and alt-right Dutch form a column in which the opposition is brewing and where extreme ideas are laundered. They have won anyway if Twitter and influencing public debate there.
Creepy, How many people on Twitter attacks on immigrants understand and believe conspiracy theories, writes the Leiden professor Leo Lucassen.
Julia Ebner (28) examine the 'big replacement theory', which states that the white race is in danger of dying. A supporter of this theory lap last weekend 22 people dead in El Paso.
After the attack in El Paso media discuss the relationship between extreme right language and physical violence. But this retrospective analysis is too late, argues Noor Labansdochter.
Christian conservatism. Forum for Democracy (FVD) Baudet has been under a "boreal and religious side", states co-founder Henk Otten, last week put the party. Established that FVD has attractive aspects of the Christian Right, which also concerned about the decline of Christian values. Is it an alliance between FVD and SGP?
With the emergence of Forum for Democracy Netherlands has since times again a real conservative party. What surprises many, that this conservatism seems to have more to urge revolution than with conservatism. But radicalism is not unusual in the conservative tradition.
Especially right European politicians, such as Forum for Democracy and Freedom Party, Today show on affinity with Moscow. What moves Putin's friends?
The new anti-Semitism is on the rise, but it comes from radical Muslims, left or right? The issue becomes increasingly politicized and that cloud the issue: Jews feel threatened in Europe and should be unacceptable to everyone.
The results of the European elections offer hope. EU countries appear more resistant to the destructive power of the New Right, sparked by Donald Trump, than countries outside Europe.
A climate-skeptic network from the United States has settled in the heart of the European Union and Flanders. Via think tanks, sponsored with "dirty money", the road crosses LDD straight to N-VA.
This month the European Parliament elections. In many European countries is growing extreme right and that trend could continue in the European Parliament. An overview of the countries with the most striking shift to the right.
International cooperation is the anti-abortion lobby increasingly professional. During secret meetings strategies be devised to achieve its goal.
In the run up to the European elections continues, the European combat fake news nothing. Google, Facebook and Twitter are their promises of openness and insufficient after the trolls and alt-right influencers have free rein.
The political center is fighting a many-headed monster Eurosceptic. For men like Timmermans and Macron warn that Europe is on the brink of collapse. But how practical is that danger?
Steve Bannon now befriends right-wing populists around the world. Geert Wilders he knows well, and Thierry Baudet he will "definitely meet", zegt hij. "What happened to you is a bellwether for the European elections', , the former right hand of Donald Trump.
In the eyes of Thierry Baudet Progress decline and European law unjust institution. That makes curious about his views on democracy. The conclusion: it is logical that he saw kindred spirits in Trump and Orbán.
Mark Rutte, referring to the fall of the Roman Empire to advocate stricter European migration, Thierry Baudet held in Parliament a Latin speech. Where does this love for antiquity from? They mostly belong to the right?
Fighting populism by reacting indignantly to every lie, is naive, says German-American political scientist Yascha Mounk. Trump supporters know he is lying. Mounk comes up with a different strategy.
Time to draw a line in the right tent.
The discourse is hijacked by conspiracy theorists on the right, represents Joshua Livestro, who gave several of them a chance in the past to his opinion site Yalta. Time to draw the line.
Of course he is disappointed. Luc Stenekes (52) was a fan of presidential candidate Donald Trump because they promised 'sovereign states' they will leave you alone. And look now. Trump fired 59 kruisrakettten off to Syria and he dropped the 'mother of all bombs "in a tunnel complex of IS in Afghanistan. ,,He breaks his promises isolationist, I find incomprehensible,"Says Stenekes.
The UN chief called the election promises of the Freedom Party to ban Muslim immigrants and the Koran “grotesquely”.
As thereby likened Hussein, who comes from Jordan, of “fear tactics” Wilders’ PVV to that of Islamic State (IS).
Geert Wilders sees the emergence of Donald Trump as similar to themselves. Both owe their popularity to disgruntled voters who feel unrepresented, Wilders said in an interview with CNN. "In America the same thing happens as in Europe ', According to the PVV leader, in Cleveland attending the Republican convention.
PVV leader Geert Wilders is traveling this summer to the Republican convention in the US city of Cleveland to see with their own eyes how "his’ presidential candidate Donald Trump raised on the shield. He announces to the AD.
Three activists from Zwart Front, including their foreman Ritchie Kolvers, dive in Nijmegen during an activity of a Syrian Islamic organization. Zwart Front wants to take action “against the belligerent Donald Trump”, but must not come close. They try to make their point from a distance. The trio are carrying out the same action today Utrecht. Zwart Front is on the hand of dictator Bashar al-Assad.
At a leftist Women's March in Amsterdam someone disagrees with handing out muddled pamphlets Donald Trump and racism seem to be targeted. But the text of the pamphlets says the left is guilty of raping white women by IS refugees.. Apart from these pamphlets, two figures also emerge from the Erkenbrand-circles on this demonstration. It is about Fausto Lanser en Millennial Woes (Colin Robertson). They take pictures and later edit them in a video with negative commentary on the demonstration.
Enter at a left-wing manifestation Nijmegen tegen Donald Trump also show up some extreme right-wing figures who recently joined the NVU being active. It's about the couple Adé Jansen en Frieda Jansen-Bastiaans. De pretty extremist Michael Jansen even manages to address the manifestation from the podium. He is active at Nijmegen Rechtsaf and that group later claims it as their action too. There would also be two people Zwart Front have been present with a flag.
On Sunday afternoon, Prime Minister Mark Rutte will pass on a response to it Donald Trump entry ban imposed on people from seven Muslim countries, who want to enter the United States. Rutte says that refugees from war and violence deserve a safe haven, regardless of their origin or religion. He rejects the entry ban. PVV-leider Geert Wilders Rutte thinks for this ‘a slapjanus', and he proposes an end to immigration from any Muslim country ‘is exactly what we need'.
De JOVD off Rijnmond Rotterdam organizes a meeting to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump to watch. The chairman says that the JOVD neutral with respect to Donald Trump, but the public seems largely pro-Trump. The supreme moment is applauded. Here's the pro-Trump writer Hajo Smit speaker and is Lennard van Mil present.
In Washington D.C. himself is the Dutch Jake Owen Raats at the inauguration of Donald Trump present. He's wearing one “Make America Great Again” hat to express his support.
Martin Bosma of the PVV tabled a motion in Parliament during the Legislative Consultation. He wants the government to cut all ties with public broadcasting as long as the current chairman is in office there. He gives the reason for this: “In particular propaganda for the pseudo-refugees, the hatred of it Donald Trump, the condescending way in which Islam critics have been put away for decades, continued political correctness, producing propaganda for Islam, shamelessly squander the Netherlands 1 to the socialist VARA, the broadcaster of the splinter party Labor Party, negotiating with Minister Asscher about the content of the Sinterklaas news, as well as the attack on our cherished and negotiable Black Piet tradition“.
In Washington D.C. far-right groups organize themselves “alt-right” call a meeting to celebrate that Donald Trump becomes President on behalf of the Republikeinse Partij. There are three men from the Netherlands Erkenbrand at present. Speakers such as Kevin MacDonald, Richard Spencer and the former BNP'is Matthew Tait. Participants bring the Hitler salute and shout “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” (“hail victory” is in German: “Sieg Heil“).
Geert Wilders of the PVV in the US speaker at a party for gay Donald Trump, in the margins of the convention's Republikeinse Partij in Cleveland. Wilders Islam down as a security threat. The party is organized by Milo Yiannopoulos and also Pamela Geller speaker is. All costs of this trip Geert Wilders are paid by The International Freedom Alliance Foundation en The Gatestone Institute. At the convention itself runs Thierry Baudet van Forum voor Democratie around with a Trump-cap and he is at the meeting Milo Yiannopoulos.
Around this time meet Thierry Baudet en Geerten Waling the author James Ronald Kennedy in the US who has written a book about slavery and the Civil War with the title “The South was Right“. But Baudet says he not do so racist, member of the KKK or pro-slavery man.
Yernaz Ramautarsing speaks at a meeting of Forum voor Democratie in Amsterdam over: “of National Rifle Association, Arm Holdings in America and Europe Donald Trump”.
The extremist landscape in the Netherlands has developed strongly in recent years. Where in the public image the emphasis has long been on jihadism, other forms of extremism have come to the fore in recent years. Since the outbreak of the corona pandemic in 2019 the increasing hardening and division of the social and political debate are visible. Anti-government sentiments are more explicitly expressed publicly, for example in relation to the corona- and nitrogen policy. Moreover, more people seem to radicalize online under the influence of conspiracy theorists and/or radicals- and far-right groups.
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..