A majority in the lower house of the Dutch parliament wants the Netherlands to follow the United States’ lead and designate the far-left Antifa movement as a terrorist organization. A motion to that effect by Lidewij de Vos (FvD), Caroline van der Plas (BBB), and Geert Wilders (PVV) was passed with the support of the VVD, SGP, and JA21.

American president Donald Trump designated the anti-fascist Antifa movement a terrorist organization on Thursday. He cited the recent murder of radical right-wing opinion leader Charlie Kirk as a direct cause, although the U.S. authorities have not yet linked the attack to any political groups.

The motion’s sponsors argue “that Aintifa cells are also active in our country, threatening politicians, disrupting meetings, intimidating students and journalists, and not shying away from using violence.” According to the anti-terrorism agency NCTV, “organized left-wing extremism in the Netherlands is fragmented, small in number, and diverse in ideology.”

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago*

Someone explain to me how people who declare themselves anti-ANTIFAscists aren't plainly stating that they're fucking fascists...

And someone being openly fascist is a-okay in 2025. The mind boggles...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Careful. If you keep going down that road there won‘t be a parliament anymore.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    What's going on with the Dutch government?

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    [–] 150 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Oh ffs... Why is everyone so willing to kneel for nazis? Guess im gonna be a terrorist soon.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    Because a non-negligible number of your neighbors are voting for populist and far-right candidates. These people have support.

    100,000 people showed up for a far-right rally in London last week. Bolsonaro is just now seeing some kind of punishment for his actions in Brazil.

    It’s never really been a U.S.-only thing, sadly, the U.S. has just captured the zeitgeist for the past several years.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The source is not trustworthy. There's a good chance this article is an outright fabrication.

    Just read the other headlines. They are very typical content for publications made by Russian troll farms.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Looks like the Dutch have a fascism problem. They should do ((something)) about it. By that I mean kill the perpetrators... with kindness! Absolutely obliterate them... with love! Give them the old French aristocracy treatment... the finest serving of cake!

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  • Just to make it clear, this is a historical picture of antifa:

    To be even more clear, that’s a picture of the US Navy supporting the US Army (alongside the Royal Navy and various British Commonwealth armies) in a massive amphibious landing on Normandy Beach in Nazi-occupied France, which opened the land phase of the Western Font of the Second World War, ultimately concluding in the utter destruction of the fascist Nazi regime in Germany.

    So, just to make sure everyone’s listening this time, Netherlands: tell me why “antifa” is bad.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago

    I bet the leaders and board members of antifa are shaking in their shoes right now.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    They're all quite loudly calling themselves fascists.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Daddy is always right...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Huh I wonder about the dynamics of the vote here, I imagine the left center parties were hijacked by conservative aristocrats like in the rest of the west.

    Those supposed left center lawmakers are very opposed to the actual left and see their reason for being as freezing out any reform minded ideas or candidates that could retake the privellage granted the aristocracy these last decades.

    Sounds like they need some new leadership at their parties, not understanding nazis will not be good for the country or themselves is a dealbreaker with voters

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    Off subject though it may be, the left in Europe totally sucks. They should be threatening to seize power not the third most popular in any election. We need all new leadership at every level of organization business and government, and the left wing political parties in Europe are no exception.

    Channeling the anger of Voters to its proper source is not a very difficult thing to do.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    One more reason to wear my AFA t-shirt more regularly.

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  • They should invite krasnov over for a long pork state dinner

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    The largest political part in the last election is the populist PVV. It's lead by "Geert Wilders" who blames everything on foreigners. The 3rd largest party, the VVD has gone full populist (more than before) now after their previous leader Mark Rutte left, although they've hit a bit of a snag after their new leader called a famous Dutch singer of being a antisemitist because he refused to sing at a place with Zionist posters. This backfired because this is somehow their only recent scandal that people care about.

    It's a mess, the coalition hasn't been able to get much done due to infighting and election season is coming up, so there are going to be a bunch of right-wing populist proposals purely for optics just like this one.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    This is weird.

    And probably not true. The site the article is from has the style used by Russian troll farms. The article is most likely 95% fabricated, with a kernel of truth, such as maybe one MP in the parliament having suggested that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Geert Wilders can do one.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago*

    Everyone's chomping at the bit to be fascists

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    There is no antifa organization

    That's the whole point. Antifa isn't a group of people, and it's barely a shared ideology. It's so vague and nebulous it allows the regime to label anybody antifa for any reason and arrest them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    There's only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch.

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    [–] 10 points 4 weeks ago

    well yea, FvD, PVV, of course they'd be scared of anti-fascists.

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  • September 2025

    Old article

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