Protests are organized in the Netherlands responding to a motion received by the Dutch parliament “to retain the cultural and religious norms and values of the Dutch people with the development of migration”.
public request calls to movement They plan to demonstrate anti-racism and hate-racism campaigns next Saturday against the government move, in which the the largest party is run by the anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders.
Movement by the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) – part of the rightwing coalition – he says to offer “information about norms and values into the cultural integration” of ethnic minorities and calls on the government to “save the individual”, for example through social research.
But Mpanzu Bamenga, an MP for the party of progressive democrats 66 who It took Dutch border police to court to overturn racial profilingThey called it “the new social low” on their LinkedIn page. “All movements are racist at the beginning,” he said. For he puts them and us; ethnic minorities are problematic and must change “our norms and values”, whatever they are. It’s completely arbitrary.”
Belgium is in the middle of a heated debate about integration and segregation after violence, some of it antisemitic, surrounding a soccer match between Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax Amsterdam. Right-wing politicians He accused Dutch Muslim ethnic minorities of a failure to integrate, and a fragile, four-party coalition falling narrowly in November, one junior minister and two MPs reported about discrimination and the “tone” of the crisis.
For some, the title also evokes emotion The Holocaust Nazi memorials invite the Jewish people to protest with their municipality. Jelle Zijlstra, a theater director and activist with a Jewish background, said antisemitism occurs across all social strata. “The motivation seems to be that only other people – in this case migrants, or Muslims or people not originally from the Netherlands – are subject to antisemitism or homophobia or misogyny,” he said. “But in a few weeks they will open the archives and all the instruments in” [Nazi] helpers and men who betrayed the Jewish people will be visible. I think the opinion is rosy, we were all in the resistance, rather subversive.
Tom van der Meer, professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam, said the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP) already researches widely different groups. “Studies are based on samples, privacy, voluntary participation, studies that are not about individuals,” he said. “The move is a bit problematic because it suggests that it’s about registration – but it can’t be. The consequence is that people in the migration background are frustrated.
VVD MP Bente Becker, who wrote the motion, said he was surprised if people were “disturbed” and affected not the call board, but the investigation of several groups in “parallel societies in which some people migrate. background do not subscribe to Dutch values such as democratic status, constitutional or equality of men and women”.
He told the Guardian, via email: “It is not acceptable to investigate one group and leave the rest of the Netherlands out of consideration. [but] to be able to engage in debates about how integration is done based on what is happening in society, rather than a sense of meaning.
Bamenga, who discussed the issue with Becker in a parliamentary committee before the VVD proposed the motion, disagreed. “It is not in intention but in effect,” he said. “Words matter.”