Silly threats to intimidate dissidents (2)

How does the council of Amsterdam operate?

As promised last sunday here the first follow up of the blogpost about a ridiculous Islamophilia show staged in the city council of the Dutch capital Amsterdam. This is the translation of the open letter I wrote to that council, from which they could draw for their indictment of me!Some 4400 words: quotes from my books and other… Continue reading Silly threats to intimidate dissidents (2)

Misogynists abusing DSD-victims

Last Sunday, the third and most successful edition of the Dutch LetWomenSpeak took place in Utrecht.Soon all the speeches of the speakers will be available to hear and watch, but for two very different reasons here are three quarters of a minute from a justifiably angry young woman. As with the first edition, the story… Continue reading Misogynists abusing DSD-victims

Antifa: hard core communists with a whiff of nihilism

Fighting LetWomenSpeak under the Antifa-banner

Yesterday I published a post in Dutch about Antifa in the Netherlands. However, Antifa is active in many western countries and share the same agenda everywhere. So an English translation could be useful for decent people in many other Western countries. It is mostly a translation but also slightly adapted for the international perspective and… Continue reading Antifa: hard core communists with a whiff of nihilism

TERFs, politiehonden en Stalin

Fighting LetWomenSpeak under the Antifa-banner

Afgelopen zondag werd er een openbaar aangekondigde bijeenkomst in Utrecht gehouden waar gesproken werd over hoe je als getrainde demonstranten door politie linies heen kunt breken.  Dat stond niet in de aankondiging: daarin was sprake van ‘veilig demonstreren’. Met ‘veilig’ bleek men te bedoelen: zonder inmenging door de politie. Het was deels een terugblik op… Continue reading TERFs, politiehonden en Stalin

Naar een 654mei-comité

Het is heel moeilijk te voorspellen hoe dit jaar de de Dodenherdenking zal verlopen. Het is niet uit te sluiten dat het dit jaar niet zal blijven bij het voetballen met kransen, zoals in eerdere jaren gebeurde. In 2003 rapporteerde zelfs de voormalige verzetskrant Trouw daar nog over. Het is ook mogelijk dat de sluwere… Continue reading Naar een 654mei-comité

“The better type of peace diplomacy”?

Scheveningen, Kurhaus September 25 2020, Photo of this specific exhibition of it in the ‘Kurhaus’ by the Old Dutch Painter. The title of this blogpost is the caption beside those photos … The question mark is added by me, of course. When you look for a possible original source of this photo of the Dutch… Continue reading “The better type of peace diplomacy”?