Showing posts with label Moroccans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moroccans. Show all posts
5/18/14
The Netherlands: Dutch racist Wilders targets Moroccans in EU campaign
A popular video on YouTube shows a dark-skinned young man trailing a suitcase through Dutch streets.
A popular Dutch Rapper Ali B also commented on the Wilders remarks.
"I'm going back to Morocco because they say we're not welcome any more," he tells people. "I want to say thanks for the 20 years that I've been allowed to stay in the Netherlands."
The clip, watched almost half a million times in the month since it was posted, is a TV satirist's response to a remark by Geert Wilders. The outspoken bleach-blond leader of the anti-immigration Dutch Freedom Party is one of leading anti-EU populists running in this month's European Parliament elections.
In a March speech in The Hague, Wilders - who has attracted supporters as far afield as the United States and Australia - asked the crowd if they wanted more or fewer Moroccans.
"Fewer! Fewer!" they chanted.
"Good. We'll arrange that," he said, smiling.
Criticised by some as invoking Nazi deportations of Jews during World War Two, the comment briefly hit his poll ratings. More than 5,000 complaints were filed calling for him to be prosecuted for hate speech and he lost several political allies.
But Wilders has bounced back and some of his American backers, after squirming, say they will stick by him.
About 18 percent of voters tell pollsters they will cast their ballots for his party in the EU-wide elections on May 22, ahead of the governing coalition Liberal and Labour parties and level with the centrist D66 party.
Wilders may command only minority support but his populism is a magnet for floating voters and he has set the tone of an increasingly harsh debate about immigration.
Read more: Dutch racist Wilders targets Moroccans in EU campaign | Europe | Worldbulletin News
A popular Dutch Rapper Ali B also commented on the Wilders remarks.
"I'm going back to Morocco because they say we're not welcome any more," he tells people. "I want to say thanks for the 20 years that I've been allowed to stay in the Netherlands."
The clip, watched almost half a million times in the month since it was posted, is a TV satirist's response to a remark by Geert Wilders. The outspoken bleach-blond leader of the anti-immigration Dutch Freedom Party is one of leading anti-EU populists running in this month's European Parliament elections.
In a March speech in The Hague, Wilders - who has attracted supporters as far afield as the United States and Australia - asked the crowd if they wanted more or fewer Moroccans.
"Fewer! Fewer!" they chanted.
"Good. We'll arrange that," he said, smiling.
Criticised by some as invoking Nazi deportations of Jews during World War Two, the comment briefly hit his poll ratings. More than 5,000 complaints were filed calling for him to be prosecuted for hate speech and he lost several political allies.
But Wilders has bounced back and some of his American backers, after squirming, say they will stick by him.
About 18 percent of voters tell pollsters they will cast their ballots for his party in the EU-wide elections on May 22, ahead of the governing coalition Liberal and Labour parties and level with the centrist D66 party.
Wilders may command only minority support but his populism is a magnet for floating voters and he has set the tone of an increasingly harsh debate about immigration.
Read more: Dutch racist Wilders targets Moroccans in EU campaign | Europe | Worldbulletin News
3/26/14
The Netherlands: Geert Wilders compared with Nazi propaganda master Joseph Goebbels
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| Wilders a reborn Goebbels? |
Last week, Wilders gave a speech at a PVV campaign event, in The Hague. During his speech he asked the audience: "In this city...and in the Netherlands...do you want more or less Moroccans?". The audience replied with: "Less, less, less!" while applauding loudly. The DPA claims that Wilders rhetoric is comparable to the same statements that Goebbels made during his Sportpalast speech, in 1943.
During Goebbels speech, he averted from his written textand began to mention the complete "extermination" of the Jews. In his written text of the speech, he wrote the word "solution" and fittingly stopped himself before completing his statement. "Solution" referred to the term "final solution" and was seen as a less harsher term to describe the true intentions of the Nazi regime.
After basking in the applause from his PVV party supporters, Wilders said: "Good, we can arrange that.".
Last week, Wilders had also stated during a visit to The Hague that with PVV leadership, the city would have "with less expense and if possible less Moroccans.".
Read more: Geert Wilders compared with Nazi propaganda master Joseph Goebbels - Minneapolis Community Activism | Examiner.com
3/16/13
Cinema: Dutch film "Only Decent People" tests Jewish, black taboos - by Cnaan Liphshiz
The dreamy expression of a child at a chocolate factory slowly spreads across Geza Weisz’s handsome face as he watches the quivering breasts and buttocks of young black women dancing around him at an Amsterdam nightclub.
Read more: Dutch film tests Jewish, black taboos | The Times of Israel
The scene appears in “Only Decent People,” a dark and provocative Dutch-language film that examines the fraught relations between the country’s Jews and other minorities and stars Weisz, a Jewish Amsterdammer and a major movie star in Holland.
Based on a 2009 best-selling novel by the Dutch Jewish author Robert Vuijsje, the film was the second-most popular in Holland last year, drawing 350,000 viewers in more than 100 theaters — a substantial number in a nation of 16 million.
But its stereotypical depictions of Moroccans, Jews and black Surinamese have drawn intense criticism in a country where the lessons of colonialism and the Holocaust have instituted a strict standard of political correctness — a standard that some say only a Jewish artist could breach.
“If ‘Only Decent People’ were written by someone who was not Jewish or Surinamese, it would’ve have been seen as pure racism,” said Bart Wallet, a non-Jewish historian and expert on Dutch Jewry. “It is met with greater understanding because Robert Vuijsje is a Jewish man who has a Dutch Afro-Surinamese partner.”
In the film, Weisz plays a rebellious and dark-complexioned David Samuels, the son of affluent Jewish intellectuals who endures discrimination because he looks like a Moroccan. Estranged from both the Jewish community and the wider Dutch society on account of his looks, David embarks on a quest for black lovers that leads him to witness not only violence and promiscuity among Holland’s black underclass, but also the racist attitudes of his Jewish friends.
The film traffics freely in racial stereotypes: Blacks are lazy and greedy; whites are unhygienic; Jews are slave traders; Moroccans are violent. Such sentiments, combined with the film’s depiction of group sex and borderline rape, helped make “Only Decent People” a commercial success, but they also brought latent prejudices to the fore — bolstering the claims of critics who have argued that the film fosters rather than critiques Dutch racism.
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