The handling of the extreme right with the Internet is not of today or yesterday. Mid nineties, when the Internet was slowly accessible to a wide audience, were in different countries right-wing extremists active on the Internet. What they had exactly it was not yet clear, but it was new, hip and seemed a handy medium… Read more
Op zondag 22 augustus was het gehucht Steenstrate bij Ieper in Vlaanderen het decor van een merkwaardig samenkomen. Een kleine 5.000 nationalisten herdachten op een afgelegen weiland de gevallenen uit de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Dit gebeurt normaliter op de traditionele IJzerbedevaart, nu een week later. But the radical currents of the Flemish movement has since… Read more
In March of this year saw a new extreme right initiative light, the committee “No to Turkey”. The pace lately become established new far-right splinter that is not really surprising. Yet this club deserves a little more attention, mainly due to the unexpected collaborating groups. The Committee “No To Turkey” directed against… Read more
Eindhoven, in het zuidoosten van Nederland, is al sinds jaren een plaats die veel extreem-rechts activisme kent. Begin jaren 90 was er in heel Nederland sprake van gestructureerde activiteiten van nazi-skinheads. Een van de actiefste groepen bevond zich toen in Eindhoven. Maar sinds de teruggang van extreem-rechts, vanaf 1998, Eindhoven is an odd… Read more
Michel Hubert is al jaren een zeer actief lid van de Nederlandse fascisten-gemeenschap. Begin jaren negentig was hij actief in de CP’86 en vanaf 1996 in Voorpost en de daaraan gelieerde studentenbeweging. Hubert wordt binnen extreem-rechts gezien als intelligente jongen. Qua opleidingsniveau is dat ook zeker waar, but its political and organizational insights are so… Read more
Medio 1999 constateerden wij een opmerkelijke toename van activiteit van Voorpost in de regio Eindhoven. Deze opleving liep parallel aan het verhuizen van Michel Hubert vanaf zijn studentenflat in Zeist naar de regio waar hij opgroeide. There he founded a circle Kempenland and knew a small group of old and new comrades around… Read more
The Flemish nationalist Yzerbedevaart Diksmuide (Belgium) This year has expired quietly. In recent years there is often talk of fuss and hassle, but this time it was not a trace. The Saturday evening before the actual pilgrimage (Saturday 28 augustus) is traditionally a celebration for all kinds of far-right figures from across Europe. The café “The Court of… Read more
In november 1996, around the time of the schism within the vicissitudes CP'86, saw a new far-right organization view: The Dutch Student (NLSV(1)) before: The Dutch Student, see box at bottom of article. She posed as a 'regular’ student, but that is certainly not. The NLSV calls himself a conscious association for Dutch students… Read more
Prosper Joannes Antonius Gerardus Ego on 17 juli 1927 born. He is founder and until now president of the Veterans Legion (OSL), one of the most successful far-right organizations in the Netherlands. Ego's life is dominated by anti-communism. With his penchant for authoritarian forms of governance, ethnocentrism and his aversion to anything with… Read more
Marcel Rüter is undoubtedly one of the most prominent people in extreme right in the Netherlands. The stranger so that no one has ever heard of him or has any idea how he looks. This has to do with the other side of Rüter. In addition to his political activities, he also has a successful social career,… Read more
Tibor Rudolf Mudde was on 23 februari 1965 born in Amsterdam. He has long been one of the most important figures within the extreme right in the Netherlands. As a teenager, he becomes involved in the extreme right circuit and he is a member of the Dutch People's Union. In 1985 he is on the mailing list of the Consortium of the Tree of Life… Read more
This is the report of an investigation into the identity of Lonsdale youth in the municipality Werkendam. Following this study, the structural problems of discrimination and right-wing utterances by young people from this town. The study was developed in collaboration with Bureau Discriminatiezaken Central and West Brabant and Palette, support center for multicultural development in North Brabant. The study sought to understand the identity of Lonsdale youth. Identity is constructed in different ways and by different stakeholders. It consists of ascriptive and zelfascriptieve aspects, that is to say, the identity which people attach respectively to others and to itself. In this study both aspects have been examined. For this, a qualitative study was conducted, in which use is made of data-triangulation. Data obtained from documents, observations and interviews are combined used to answer the research question.
There are a total 66 newspaper articles analyzed to investigate what image newspapers have the identity of Lonsdale youth. It has emerged that the newspapers construct a stereotype of Lonsdalers, being adapted in more extreme or more moderate sentence depends on the social context. The stereotype is that Lonsdale youth have negative views about immigrants and that they feel threatened by them. In addition, the Lonsdalers attributed extreme right nationalist sympathies and feelings.
With the Racism & Extremism seeks various forms of racism, extremism and anti-Semitism - and reactions to these phenomena - to
monitor and issue periodic reports. First we will look at the phenomena: how do racism, extremism and anti-Semitism in the Dutch society. One could look at the expression, such as politically organized racism, and to the exclusion form, eg catering discrimination. Some symptoms are limited by their nature not to the Dutch territory, such as discrimination on the Internet. In such cases, the extra-territorial context is taken into account. Fixed pattern in the monitoring study is the attempt as much as possible to identify different kinds of victims and perpetrators. This exercise can relate to both natives and foreigners, including the latter let divide again in various minority groups. The response to racism, extremism and anti-Semitism can be different in nature, from educational to legal. Usually the nature of the response depending on the appearance of the discrimination, the category of victims and the background of the perpetrators. In addition, some forms of response to coexist or even synergistic. Regular monitoring of the phenomena, victims, the perpetrators and the response serves several purposes. In this way we try to contribute to the understanding of the fight against racism, extremism and anti-Semitism. Furthermore, accumulation of knowledge rather than the fixed system and the periodicity of the study. Finally, there is an image obtained by developments in the long run and makes suggestions based on past experience for future solutions.
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The Monitoring racism and the extreme right seeks various forms of racism, extreme right and discrimination - as well as response to these phenomena - to monitor and issue periodic reports. The initiative for this project is mid-nineties adopted by the Leiden University.
Since the fourth report, the monitoring project is run jointly by Leiden University and the Anne Frank Foundation. The usefulness of periodic monitoring report is diverse. It is based on a fixed yardstick 'the balance of the principal manifestations and incidents of racial discrimination, racism and right-wing extremism, and the development of strategies to combat. The reports are politicians, directors and representatives of civil society put in a position to reflect on the problems and come to solving strategies. The reports can contribute by their systematic and periodic character of accumulation of knowledge and understanding. It will also provide insight into developments that occur in the longer term. That applies not only to the recent period but also for the future. The monitor can also contribute to early identification of relevant, new developments. Finally, the report could be helpful in answering the numerous practical questions on this subject from
within- or abroad are made.
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Is there in our country evidence of increasing or decreasing racial violence? How is it with the tolerance in the Netherlands? Has the local policy against discrimination catering success or keep the number of complaints? To answer these questions it is important that research is conducted to periodically monitor the manifestations of racial discrimination and extreme right. This interest is mid-nineties recognized by the University of Leiden and there is the project Monitoring racism and the extreme right developed. Currently the project is implemented by the Leiden University in cooperation with the Anne Frank Foundation and with support from the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. Research Monitor is an internationally recognized tool for the detection of racism and discrimination, and developing policies against. In 1999 was in Vienna the European Monitoring Centre on Racism
Xenophobia and start. The Vienna Observatory seeks to follow developments in the European Union and analyzed using national monitoring centers. The project Monitoring racism and the extreme right is an important source for the supply of data to the European Monitoring Centre. In the European Directive 29 juni 2000 equal treatment of persons on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin is also included a monitor provision: after the conclusion of the national regulatory (physical appearance) 2003 shall, with effect from 2005 every five years report to be done on the effectiveness of those national measures.
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How intolerant towards native Dutch immigrants? Almost
25 year assesses the Social and Cultural Planning Office (SCP) public opinion on
immigrants and publishes regularly about. In the late eighties, early
ninety we see a slight hardening of the climate of opinion, but according to the
SCP there are generally few changes. Just About 80% of the
population thinks that natives and immigrants should have equal treatment
have at distribution issues, such as housing and employment.
Just About 13% of the indigenous population rejects
immigrants. Just About 50% of the indigenous population is against immigration
opposed.
Regarding this last NIPO found in 1998 a different outcome:1 not
half, but three-quarters of the native Dutch against further
Immigration opposed. There is - according to the NIPO - a growing support for
immigration restrictions while confidence in integration and
adjustment of immigrants decreases. NIPO found this trend going on
Polls in the years 1993, 1995 en 1998.
Eind 1999 showed another NIPO survey, one third of the Dutch
opposes the granting of asylum to political or economic
vluchtelingen.2 thirds of the Dutch have supported policies
government for political refugees who fear for their own country
their lives to give asylum. About half of the respondents felt that
seekers give nuisance. Further thought about forty percent that asylum seekers
on average, are more criminal than Dutch.
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