How the hard right both reflects and creates prejudice
It’s one way to get votes
GEERT WILDERS is the most powerful politician in the Netherlands. His party came first in the general election last November and will be the biggest in the new government. He is also a convicted hate-monger. Dutch courts found him guilty of “insulting a population group” in a speech in 2014. Mr Wilders’s offence was to lead an audience in a chant that called for kicking out “Moroccans”—people of Moroccan descent, who form the Netherlands’ most stigmatised ethnic group.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Who hates whom?”
Europe May 25th 2024
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