Register of Racism and Resistance (RRR)

Unrest in Amsterdam as further arrests made over Maccabi clashes
12 November 24
In relation to violence surrounding a Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax fixture in Amsterdam, the Dutch prime minister says those who attacked ‘Israelis’ were people ‘with a migration background’ engaging in ‘unadulterated antisemitic violence’. The Erev Yav Jewish Collective say that authorities ignored warnings that many Maccabi fans were IDF soldiers who had served in the Gaza strip.
Source: Al Jazeera
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Netherlands
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‘Smash the gangs won’t work’: Home Office officials doubt Labour small boats plan
7 November 24
Prime minister Keir Starmer announces new agreements with Serbia, North Macedonia and Kosovo to combat organised immigration crime by increasing intelligence sharing.
Source: inews
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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German Parliament approves controversial anti-Semitism resolution
7 November 24
The German parliament passes a resolution on antisemitism and protecting Jewish life which prohibits public funding for any organisation or project that promotes antisemitism, questions Israel’s right to exist or calls for support for the BDS movement.
Source: Middle East Monitor
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Germany
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Starmer to ramp up small boat crackdown with Meloni talks and £150m cash boost
4 November 24
Prime minister Keir Starmer tells an INTERPOL assembly that people smuggling gangs sending people across the English Channel are a serious threat to global security and should be treated like terror networks, as he announces a further £75m for the Border Security Command.
Source: inews
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK, Italy
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Labour MPs urge Keir Starmer to clarify stance on non-cash slavery reparations
25 October 24
Labour MPs urge Keir Starmer to clarify his stance on non-cash slavery reparations as he says the issue is off the table and indicates, on the way to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting, that he wants to ‘look forward’ rather than have ‘endless discussion about reparations on the past’.
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Robert Jenrick claims pensioners are waking up with illegal migrants in their bedrooms
25 October 24
Speaking to LBC in an attempt to justify taking Britain out of the ECHR, one of the two candidates for leadership of the Conservative party, Robert Jenrick, claims that ‘pensioners are waking up with illegal migrants in their bedrooms’.
Source: Left Foot Forward
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Austria elects far-right parliamentary speaker
24 October 24
Freedom party politician Walter Rosenkranz is elected as the new speaker of the Austrian parliament, marking the first time a far-right politician has held the post.
Source: Deutsche Welle
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Austria
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Elections 2024: Cordon sanitaire broken for the first time
19 October 24
In Ranst, a municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp, local parties PIT and Vrij Ranst agree to form a coalition with the far-right Vlaams Belang party, breaking Belgium’s cordon sanitaire against the nationalist party for the first time since 1989.
Source: Belga
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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HS: Finns Party aiming to reduce quota refugees from Muslim-majority countries
9 October 24
As a working group on quota refugee allocations convenes in Finland, the far-right Finns party is reported to have proposed a reduction in the number of quota refugees accepted from Muslim-majority countries while increasing the intake from Christian-majority nations.
Source: YLE
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Finland
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After the Austrian general election, where the far-right Freedom party secures…
9 October 24
After the Austrian general election, where the far-right Freedom party secures the most votes, the president dispenses with the tradition of giving the largest party the opportunity to form a new coalition government, as the three other largest parties refuse to work with it.
Source: Minnesota Star Tribune
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Reform plans private prosecution of men in Manchester Airport fight with police
7 October 24
The Reform Party announces that if the CPS decides not to prosecute Fahir Amaaz, who was kicked and stamped on the head by police officers at Manchester airport, and his brother, it will launch a private prosecution against them. Reform previously wrote to the home secretary saying that the officers involved have been thrown ‘under the bus’.
Source: Telegraph
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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UK: Robert Jenrick calls for ban on Palestine advocacy group Friends of Al-Aqsa
7 October 24
In a Daily Mail column, Conservative party leadership candidate Robert Jenrick calls for Friends of Al-Aqsa and the Palestinian Forum in Britain to be banned.
Source: Middle East Eye
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Migrant crime rate being covered up, says Robert Jenrick
30 September 24
Conservative leadership candidate Robert Jenrick, who claims that migrant crime rates are being covered up, pledges to publish data identifying migrant nationalities with the highest crime rates if he becomes prime minister.
Source: MSN
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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‘Not all cultures equally valid’ when it comes to immigration, says Badenoch
29 September 24
On a BBC programme, Tory leadership contender Kemi Badenoch reiterates views she expressed in a Telegraph article that ‘not all cultures are equally valid’ and that some immigrants brought ‘ancestral hostilities’. ‘I am struck’, she says, ‘by the number of recent immigrants to the UK who hate Israel’.
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Austria’s far-right FPÖ wins parliamentary vote
29 September 24
In Austrian parliamentary elections, the far-right Freedom party (FPÖ), campaigning with the slogan ‘Fortress Austria’, advocating ‘remigration’ of ‘uninvited foreigners’ and calling for the suspension of asylum law, wins the most votes (29 percent), leaving it the strongest party in the parliament, ahead of the conservative ÖVP (26.2 percent) for the first time.
Source: Deutsche Welle
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: EU, Germany, Austria
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