In her third column on polarisation and distrust of the establishment, Hind Fraihi finds climate extremism takes her to the resurgence of anti-Semitism. Because, when extremists get lost in their radicalism, they throng together in anti-Semitism as if it were a common landmark. That is an evil devel
This fall, Hind Fraihi will dedicate a series of four columns to the issues of ever-increasing social polarisation and the growing distrust of the establishment. In this first instalment, she zooms in on the ultra-right. As it stands, Flemish and Dutch extremists mostly convene in online environment
The far right uses social media as a sort of pulpit from which to lash out without restraint against the left and society’s alleged excesses. The fact that they attract large numbers of followers as a result shows that they are more successful than their counterparts in playing on feelings that ex
Right-wing extremists and Muslim extremists share the same origin: fear. The mutual fear for the other groups’ dominance provokes revisitation of their own identity, whether this glorifies a white past or adheres to a fundamentalist interpretation of religion. Moreover, both extremes break away an
