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
Dth last years zijn there are new forms of the right–extremism to arise. These are mostly
based on existing ideas, but are ohk adapted to developments, fromoals of
emergence of the internet. In the previous publication of NTA ('NTA, De New Generation
the extreme right and its online shadow’) 1 we described how the extreme right via the internet
zijn message spreads and new peoplen at the ideology involved. In this publication
let's zoom in on the most extreme currents of the extreme right: the new generation
rechts–extremists. These hang often accelerationism; the belief that if there is one
fight against enemies, deze better to break out today than tomorrow.
Attacks aim to fuel this struggle.
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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