De Fabel van de illegaal 69, March/April 2005
Author: Gerrit de Wit
AFA action against anti-Semitic meeting
At the end of January, 2005, in many countries the liberation of the Auschwitz annihilation camp was commemorated. The small extreme-Right party Nationale Alliantie (National Alliance, NA) from Rotterdam, however, organized an anti-Semitic meeting on “the struggle against Zionism” on January, 29th. On the list of speakers were a couple of leaders from the Nazi organization Blood and Honour Flanders (B&HV). On that same day, Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) Netherlands took to the neighborhood of three NA leaders to spread informative pamphlets about them, door to door.
The NA is a "white revolutionary party" fighting against "the mixing of races", for that would lead to "weak people". They call on white Dutch people to increase their birthrate and demand a halt to the building of mosques and the closure of the Netherlands' borders to all immigrants and refugees. The NA also hates jews. According to NA secretary Virginia Kapic, "jews don't belong in Europe and they can only live here because 'we', the whites, allow them to exist". Kapic is also outraged that "jews bother us every year with their Holocaust myth".
Pamphlets
The NA is planning to take part in the next elections and is trying to impress the electorate by taking up strong and demagogic positions of support for the elderly, for "more democracy" and for animal welfare. According to AFA, the NA "wants to create tension in society by promoting hate against muslims, jews, immigrants and people who think differently". To show what the NA really is, AFA distributed hundreds of leaflets to neighbors of three leading NA members, Jan Teyn, Gerard de Wit and Olivier Oomen. AFA describes the NA as "without exception, a bunch of racists who are striving for 'a race war' in the Netherlands". About party chairman Teijn, who held a seat in the Rotterdam city council and who was secretary of the fascist CP'86 until it was banned in 1998, AFA notes that, in 1997, he took part in a demonstration "in honour of the Waffen SS" in Antwerp. He now has a seat in a local Rotterdam council.
Gerard de Wit was a leader of the fascist Nieuwe Nationale Partij (New National Party, NNP) and is now leader of the NA in the province of Zuid-Holland. Olivier Oomen has also trodden a well-worn extremist path, having been the leader of the fascist gang Stormfront Nederland, and whose favourite pastimes have included violence, taunting jews, bawling "Sieg Heil" and spray painting swastikas. Oomen was convicted in 1999 for daubing a Jewish cemetery with swastikas and the words "Six million too few".
Blood & Honour
The main speeches at the NA's 29 January "day school", which was organized for their youth branch Dietsland Jeugd, were delivered by members of B&HV. The international B&H network tries to lure youngsters into national socialism through its publications and music. The Flemish branch publishes a magazine with the long-winded title "Bloed, bodem, eer en trouw" ("Blood, soil, honor and loyalty'). In the magazine they for instance write that "racism without hatred to jews is the same as putting make-up on an AIDS- patient. It looks nice, but solves nothing". According to B&H, "the jew" "causes diseases". They claim that "Hitler is the person in world history who did the most for the white race, because of his firm management of the jews". That Hitler didn't finish "his job" was not his fault, B&H argues, that happened because "the NSDAP was full of softies". Thirty members of B&HV visited the annual Rudolf Hess memorial march in Wunsiedel, Germany last August. They have also organised Hitler birthday celebrations on four occasions and had a meeting with the notorious German fascist lawyer, Horst Mahler, a year ago. Additionally, B&HV has had meetings at which the Holocaust has been denied and at which anti-Semitic films have been shown.
The day school was visited by dozens of nazi's. Dietsland Jeugd chairman Niek R. really loved the B&H speeches. "They showed a special gift for inspiring people and clinching their participation in the greatest battle that Europe has ever known," referring to the extermination of the Jews. R. was satisfied with the large turnout. "Happily many turned up, because if we want to win this battle, we first have to know who our enemies are. If a tree is ill, you must not cut one branch, but remove the whole tree, roots and all, from the healthy soil."
Holocaust denial
The NA is made up of a mixture of folkish nationalists, who want a white Europe, and national socialists, who also want to make the Netherlands "Judenfrei" ("free of jews"). In recent months the national socialists are becoming more prominent and are starting to determine the image of the party, encouraged by Kapic. Before the day school she wrote in the party's internet forum that the "west is nothing more than a immoral capitalist rampart of the jews. The jew accomplished everything with the aid of his money and with the ownership of the media. Nowadays the media are completely in the hands of the jews." The jews, she claims, "are aiming for absolute power" and "underestimated the Arabs" when they "let them enter the western world". Kapic is terrified that "in the end we will be ruled by Arabs with their strange dress and unwashed beards".
Kapic denies the holocaust. According to her the nazi's did not kill 6 million jews. That figure "was made up" by zionists "who lie and cheat all the time". She argues that "the jews themselves are to be blamed for mass murder" because they "supported and financed the Second World War in all kinds of ways". After the war "the jews" supposedly used jew filmmakers to make "holo hoax movies". Kapic writes that communists did murder hundred million people in the last century, and that these communists were "marionettes of zionism". Kapic always ends her contributions on the NA's internet forum with a quote from Adolf Hitler.
In recent months the NA has threatened anybody who called them nazi or fascist with legal action. They wanted to keep a clean image. That image won't keep up now that they openly argue in nazi fashion, deny the holocaust and work together with B&H. Now they are doomed to the same political marginality as its sworn rivals in the Nationale Volks Unie (National People's Union, NVU). Luckily an openly facist and anti-Semitic party can still not mobilize many people in the Netherlands, especially now that the main stream parties are struggling among themselves to the most conservative and Right. With its radical opinions, convicted cadres and extreme Right membership, the party may be facing legal action in the future. If it continues on its current course, a discussion on banning the organisation may be imminent.