The extreme right and weapons, that seems a particularly unfortunate, if not lethal combination. Especially now that the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik and the German serial killers Nationalsozialistische Untergrund (NSU) show where armed right-wing extremists are capable. Yet the Dutch government seems to be in the form of police and AIVD the possession of weapons of Dutch right-wing extremists… Read more
The right-wing extremist Anders Breivik has committed a bomb attack in Norway and killed dozens of people. In a manifesto in which he explains his act Breivik refers several times to the political situation in the Netherlands. According to the AIVD there is little threat from the Dutch extreme right. Is this observation correct? The murder of (fairly randomly chosen) mensen… Read more
Recently we wrote the first article about Blood & Honour Nederland. It was history and describes the current state of affairs. Briefly came across this article means that some attempts have been made to establish a Dutch department of Blood & Honour, the international organization for Nazi skinheads. These attempts all failed,… Read more
In 1999 did the Centre Democrats Janmaat last part in the elections. In the provincial elections, they lost all their seats in that year. A few months later the CD tried again during the European elections, but that was a fiasco from. A year earlier the… 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
The list includes twelve candidates, most of whom have long walk around with the CD. Remarkably, the current parliamentarian Wim Elst Wood from Haarlem is in second place. The region Kennemerland represents the strongest on the list. This probably has something to do with the circle of success Haarlem. Haarlem… Read more
Establishment in October 1984 be Janmaat and a number of supporters after internal quarrels of the Centre Party (CP) put. In November, a number of them the Party Centre Democrats (CD) Founded. Janmaat is also a member of this party. Initially Janmaat is not in the board, but a year later he pulls all… Read more
Wim Elsthout, the Crown Prince of Janmaat, has been running for quite a while in the CD. Occasionally he featured in the 'flashy’ verkiezingsspotjes en in december 1997 he is the third member of each CD after Cor Zonneveld deceased. Behind the scenes, he is very active for the CD. He sits… Read more
Secret service AIVD is concerned about the resurgence of right-wing extremist clubs in Netherlands. Such a group is "United We Stand" from East Groningen.
Jitske Eizema States member of the Frisian Frijheids Party will not continue with her group employee, who have recently searched in vain for weapons.
The two have been apart, says Eizema, although it should have according to the resignation formally still be seized.
The police last week the home of the fractiemedewerker of the Frijheids Party (FFP) searched. The party is an offshoot of the Freedom Party has one seat in the Provincial Council of Friesland. The employee had a picture of guns posted on Facebook. Which are not found as Omrop Friesland.
On Police 16 may to arms searched the home of Richard van der Plas in Glad, fractiemedewerker in the Provincial.
The police confirmed the raid, but also says that there is nothing found. The occasion was a 10 May by Van der Plas posted pictures showing two pistols on the Facebook page of Frysk Pagan Front. Van der Plas is in 1994 sentenced for weapons possession.
The police are doing a house search Richard van der Plas in the Frisian village Blija and they look for weapons. The search was prompted by his message from 10 May on a social medium. He then posted a photo of two pistols on a page of his organization Frysk Heidens Front. Van der Plas has a history with gun ownership. Nothing is found in his house. After this, Member of Parliament Jitske Eizema of the Fryske Frijheids Partij no further with verder Richard van der Plas, who is her faction officer in the province.
Richard van der Plas organizes a meat braai (barbecue) of the Frysk Heidens Front in a cafe in his hometown Blija in Friesland. Various right-wing extremists indicate via social media that they want to come here. The most notable among them is the Flemish neo-Nazi Tomas Boutens.
De pretty extremist Richard van der Plas is appointed treasurer at a supporting foundation of the Fryske Frijheids Partij from Leeuwarden. Jitske Eizema is the chairwoman of this foundation.
The Frysk Heidens Front of the right-wing extremist Richard van der Plas keeps, possibly somewhere in Friesland, a New Year's drink.
On the website of the Frysk Heidens Front does foreman Richard van der Plas an appeal to all citizens of Friesland to come protest today against arrival of a new refugee center in Veenwouden. There is a demonstration from the city center Veenwouden a sports hall and there are eighty demonstrators present, including people Pegida. partly they are from the village itself, and partly from other places in Friesland. They are not allowed in at the information evening. Outside they call the slogan "no AZC"And pamphlets are distributed by text “Veenwouden says No to AZC“.
A group of anti-racism campaigners is to Grouw come to protest the arrival of St. Piter. In the Frisian village no Sinterklaas is celebrated in december, but comparable Saint Piter in February. The activists find the buck-figure racially, but they come too late to protest from a demonstratievak. They therefore want to walk to the party on the square, but the police stops them. Once this comes to a fight between for- and opponents of Zwarte Piet. Internet calls right extremist Richard van der Plas of the Frysk Heidens Front in the Fryske Frijheids Partij All Frisians to show the activists who is boss and to Grouw to come.
The Party Fryske Frijheids Partij let the Internet know that the notorious right-wing extremist Richard van der Plas has become their new employee group in the Provincial Council of Friesland. This fraction is developed after PVV-Staten Jitske Eizema from Leeuwarden split off from the party.
An information about the arrival of the AZC in Leeuwarden is calm. There are more than a hundred people present. Occasionally, people are called to order after "rough language" spread. There are some right-wing extremists present as Richard van der Plas.
The experienced right-wing extremist Richard van der Plas from Blija writes on internet: “This afternoon spoke good talk with DSDA, decided to include that as Frysk Heidens Front collaborate with this group”.
This thesis concerns the international contacts of the Centrumdemocraten and how the leader of the radical right party influenced the international contacts. I thought of the topic due to my interest in political leadership and the radical right. I had read a lot about the international contacts of the current day radical right and was wondering if the radical right formed a transnational network in the past. This precise topic was not one I had looked into during my bachelor’s and master’s degree. I did study a wide breadth of topics. This included courses on neoliberalism, energy transitions, in and out groups in societies, formations of states and political leadership. However political leadership and the radical right have been the most interesting topics to me.
Politiek in de marge
With extreme right parties in government in Austria and Italy, and Jean-Marie Le Pen contesting the run-off in the 2002 presidential elections in France, few people will dispute their continuing relevance in the politics of Western Europe. Indeed, ever since the first small electoral successes of parties like the Centrumpartij in the Netherlands or the Front National in France in the early 1980s, the extreme right has been the most discussed group of parties both in and outside of the scholarly community. Thousands of newspaper articles and hundreds of pieces of scholarly work have been devoted to extreme right parties, predominantly describing their history, leaders or electoral successes, as well as proclaiming their danger. Remarkably little serious attention has been devoted to their ideology, however. This aspect of the extreme right has been considered to be known to everyone. The few scholars that did devote attention to the ideology of the contemporary extreme right parties have primarily been concerned with pointing out similarities with the fascist and National Socialist ideologies of the pre-war period. If the similarities were not found, this was often taken as ‘proof ’ that the extreme right hides its (true) ideologies, rather than as a motivation to look in a different direction.
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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This is the second report of the project Monitoring racism and the extreme right, that was commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. The monitoring project has two main objectives:
1. monitor racism and the extreme right: the observation of these phenomena in the Netherlands, as well as the government response to these phenomena; periodic reporting, in two ways:
(a) 'General report': a general reporting on the basis of a fixed pattern;
(b) a floor battle ': reporting to a special subject is exposed.
2. The periodicity of the project means that displays a general report in one year and the other a 'floor battle'. The first report of 1997 was a general, which involves a broad picture of the phenomena of racism and the extreme right in the Netherlands, as well as government responses. Also those of the coming year (1999) a general report will be. This present second report is devoted to a special’ subject matter: the relationship between the media and also racism and the extreme right.
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This is the first report of the project Monitoring racism and the extreme right that was commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior. Under 'racism’ are also understood: antisemitisme, rasvooroordeel, Xenophobia, xenophobia en rasdiscriminatie. The monitor works are not exclusively focused on racist, but also to combat these phenomena.
The project has two objectives:
1. Permanent monitoring of racism and anti-racism
2. periodic reporting on the key findings
The utility of periodic reporting has many. Annually took stock based on a fixed pattern of the main manifestations of racism and right-wing extremism, and the development of strategies to combat. The reports can contribute by their systematic and periodic character of accumulation of knowledge and insights. It provides insight into developments that occur in the longer term. This applies not only to the past period but also the future.
The monitor can contribute to early identification of relevant, new developments.
The overall research question is:
1. How are expressions of (racist) right-wing extremism (in Nederland) developed?
2. which patterns of response have been there?
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