Acts of vandalism, as a rule, have anti-Islamic or anti-Jewish character in the Netherlands. Members of extreme- right group Identitair Resistance occupied de Al Hijra mosque in the morning of 7 February showing banners with slogans like “In Leiden victory starts” and “Stop Islam.” One of the prominent group members Paul Peters vandalized a Jewish cemetery on the night of April 29, 2001 along with several other right-wing extremists. They beat tombstones broken and painted on dozens of tombstones swastikas and Nazi slogans like “Jude Raus” and “Wir sind zurück".
In November 2017, members of Pegida attempted to prevent the construction of a mosque in the Netherlands by dumping pig’s blood on the site.[1] Dressed as a priest, a Pegida member planted a wooden cross on the site of a new mosque in the Dutch municipality Enschede and then proceeded to rub the cross with pig’s blood.
The members of the far-right ID Verzet movement hunged Islamophobic and racist signs on the roof and minaret of the Tevhid Mosque under construction in the city of Venlo (see image bellow).[2]ID Verzet, who took responsibility act, wrote on the signs in Turkish and Dutch, “Stay away, the Netherlands belongs to us. We do not want a mosque in our neighborhood, we do not want Islamists.”
In 2018, 29 anti-Semitic graffiti were recorded in the Netherlands: swastikas and anti-Jewish texts, for example, were painted on Jewish monuments and on a Jewish family's mailbox. In 2019, a total of 148 incidents of anti-Semitic daubing and vandalism (including the display of swastikas and anti-Jewish slogans on cars, offices, schools, monuments, and other sites) were reported. Some of these incidents involved tensions between soccer fans and the shouting of anti-Semitic slogans during competitions. For example, anti-Semitic texts were written in various places in the city of Amsterdam after a soccer match. In some cases the vandalism is clearly directed against Jewish institutions or people (for example, when anti-Semitic symbols were placed next to a synagogue or Jewish homes).
In some cases the vandalism is clearly directed against Jewish institutions or people (for example, when anti-Semitic symbols were placed next to synagogue or Jewish homes).
In second place are acts of vandalism with Islamophobic content - there were 30 such incidents in 2019. We are talking about various incidents involving the destruction of a place of worship (for example, the breaking of windows in a mosque).