Voorpost ("outpost, picket") is an ethno-nationalist (volksnationalist) group founded in Flanders, Belgium, by Karel Dillen in 1976 as a splinter from the Volksunie.[3]
Voorpost pursues the irredentist ideal of a Greater Netherlands, a nation state that would unite all Dutch-speaking territories in Europe. It is active in Belgium, the Netherlands and South Africa.
The organisation has staged rallies on various topics, against Islam, leftist organizations, drugs, and socialism.[4]
Members include Vlaams Blok ideologue Roeland Raes and Vlaams Belang politician Luc Vermeulen.[5][6]
Bart Vanpachtenbeke is the leader of Voorpost[1] (succeeding Johan Vanslamsbrouck). As of 2013 Nick van Mieghem is action leader for Flanders, replacing Luc Vermeulen.[2] Florens van der Kooi (formerly of the NNP) is action leader for the Netherlands.[6][7][8]
Several members of the organisation were also members of the VMO (Vlaamse Militanten Orde), which was banned in 1983 due to several violent attacks against immigrants, Belgian French-speakers, and left-leaning organisations.[3]
The Dutch AIVD classified the group as far-right. It also concluded it does not have anti-democratic goals nor uses anti-democratic means.[9]
In 1986 the Dutch labour union FNV and the Anne Frank Foundation made a list of groups it considered racist and fascist which included Voorpost. Because of this members of Voorpost were barred from joining the FNV. A Dutch court ruled in 2012 this ban on Voorpost members was against the law as discrimination based on political opinion is illegal in the Netherlands.[10]
^ abVan den Weygaerd, Luc. "Eerste "Identitair colloquium" in Edegem". Gazet van en voor Hove (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 December 2014.
^ abVoorpost Vlaanderen stelt nieuwe actieleider voor, Het Laatste Nieuws, 30 June 2013 (in Dutch)
^ abMartin Pütz, ed. (1994). Language contact and language conflict. John Benjamins. p. 251. ISBN 90-272-2142-1.
^Rodrigues and Donselaar (eds), Monitor Racisme & Extremisme - Negende rapportage, Pallas Publications, Amsterdam University Press (2010), pp. 49-50 (online copy) (in Dutch)
^Voorpost vist Roeland Raes op, Blokwatch, March 17, 2002 (in Dutch)
^ abVoorpost webpage Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch)
^Voorpost press release Archived 2013-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, December 5, 2011 listing Vanlamsbrouck as president (in Dutch)
^Voorpost contact page, listing Vermeulen and Van der Kooi as action leaders (in Dutch)
Voorpost ("outpost, picket") is an ethno-nationalist (volksnationalist) group founded in Flanders, Belgium, by Karel Dillen in 1976 as a splinter from...
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Flemish independence movement like the Vlaamse Volksbeweging (VVB) and Voorpost. Smaller numbers of former NSV members have also been elected to office...
Party) and like many other senior members of this party became active for Voorpost and later founded the Nationale Beweging, the nationalist mail order company...
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original on 23 May 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2023. "T.V. Programma's". De Voorpost (in Dutch). Aalst, Belgium. 2 April 1976. p. 6. Retrieved 10 January 2023...
from Flemish nationalist organisations, such as the Taal Aktie Komitee, Voorpost, Were Di, and the Order of Flemish Militants, while some local groups also...
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2015. Retrieved 5 January 2023. "T.V. Programma's" [T.V. Programme's]. De Voorpost (in Dutch). Aalst, Belgium. 2 May 1986. p. 15. Archived from the original...
dominated by right-wing nationalist organizations such as Vlaams Belang, Voorpost, Nationalistische Studentenvereniging (Nationalist Students Union), and...
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