One of the main right-wing parties in the Netherlands has fallen apart. The people of the Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) have spread over several new parties. Also from the VVD are some right-wing MPs walked for new political initiatives. How should we interpret these new parties? Are they extreme right? If we only look at the manifestos… 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
On Saturday 8 maart 2003 demonstrate a small fifty right-wing extremists by the Rotterdam district Feyenoord. The route is short and mostly runs along the track through a sparsely populated area. On the spot where a new mosque will be built retain the councilor Florens van der Kooi a speech against Islam in general and… Read more
In de jaren tachtig was rechts-extremisme in de Nederlandse voetbalstadions een bekend verschijnsel. Er waren diverse fascisten die een prominente rol speelden in radicale supportersgroepen zoals bijvoorbeeld Ton Hoogduin, FC Den Haag-supporter en lijfwacht van Hans Janmaat, Tim Mudde nazi-skinhead en Feyenoord-supporter en Eite Homan Aktiefront Nationale Socialisten (ANS)-voorman en leider van de Groninger Z-side…. 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
While Black Lives Matter puts the topic of racism back on the map worldwide, will be Kerwin Lucas tomorrow in Amsterdam (Duinmeijer) commemorated. The Antillean teenager became 37 stabbed to death by a skinhead years ago. He is the first victim of racial violence in the Netherlands after the Second World War.
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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