In februari 2017 the Supreme Court acquitted the Amsterdam shopkeeper Michiel van Eyck of inciting discrimination against Jews. In his “Totalitarian Art Gallery” he sold Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic book Mein Kampf, alongside all kinds of other Nazi knick-knacks. The ruling created important jurisprudence on the issue of whether Mein Kampf may be sold in the Netherlands.
At the acquittal it played a part that Michiel van Eyck did not sell the book for ideological reasons. Moreover, the book can also be found in various places on the internet. The JOVD proclaimed Michiel van Eyck as liberal of the year.
Advox for white men
On his website Advox it appears that Michiel van Eyck does have a far right ideology. However, he does not display anti-Semitism, which could have shed a different light on the criminal case. Van Eyck wants to establish a new column under the motto “Right with a wink, fighting for the reparation of the heterosexual, white Dutch man without disabilities.” Want “We do not want our beautiful country to be squandered any longer by left-wing dreamers, excusesmakers, vegans and foreign profiteers.”. Michiel van Eyck calls: “So offended men of the Netherlands, rebel and join in, because we are going to do things differently from now on, we will just do what we feel like and will no longer adapt to immigrants, climate dramas and unshaven feminists. Because we are not politically correct and do not believe in nonsensical environmental measures, we just want a real engine in our car. We do not pee while sitting down, but just pee against a tree when it is convenient. We don't eat tofu burgers, but thick steaks, and when we feel like it we just squeeze the women in the buttocks.”
Michiel van Eyck feels most at home at Thierry Baudet's Forum for Democracy and expresses his support for him. Geert Wilders' PVV is too left for him.
The Advox site is also an online shop where old Nazi magazines such as der Freiwillige are sold. In addition, the man also earns money from the suffering caused to the Jews in the Second World War. So he sells one “Jewish deportation briefcase”, complete with yellow star. He also sells that yellow star separately as “Jodenster”. The whole site is full of Nazi stuff, a photo book of Adolf Hitler, a statue of Benito Mussolini . He sells a Hitler Youth dagger with a swastika, want “The youth is the future and must be well equipped.”
Zwarte Piet
On the Advox site, Michiel van Eyck is fighting for the preservation of Zwarte Piet. In addition, he sells one “Wide collection of negro objects.” These are stereotypical figurines from bygone times in which African people are depicted in a cliché way, with plump red lips and with a nose- or large earrings. In his plea for the preservation of the Zwarte Piet tradition in the Netherlands, he writes that Zwarte Piet “had to fall victim to the ruthless virtue Inquisition“. New campaigns are on the way to preserve Zwarte Piet.
