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Marcus Bakker was a Dutch politician of the defunct Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) now merged into the GreenLeft (GL) party and journalist.

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Thierry Henri Philippe Baudet is a Dutch politician and author. He is the founder and former leader of Forum for Democracy, and has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2017. He also served as the party's parliamentary leader until the 23 November 2020.

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Rutger Castricum is a Dutch journalist and presenter, who was known as reporter for the PowNews television programme by the Dutch broadcaster PowNed and previously for the blog Geenstijl.

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Marcel Parcival Arthur van Dam is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and journalist.

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Theodoor "Theo" van Gogh was a Dutch director and film and television producer, actor and author. He directed "Submission: Part 1", a short film written by Somali writer and politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, which criticized the treatment of women in Islam in strong terms. On 2 November 2004, van Gogh was assassinated by Mohammed Bouyeri, a Dutch-Moroccan who objected to the film's controversial message. The last film van Gogh had completed before his death, 06/05, was a fictional exploration of the assassination of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002). It was released posthumously in December 2004, a month after van Gogh's assassination.

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Theodor Holman is a Dutch journalist, presenter, and writer of Indo descent.

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Israël Chaim "Ischa" Meijer was a Dutch journalist, television presenter, radio presenter, critic and author. He survived the Nazi concentration camp Bergen Belsen along with his parents.

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Prem Shivram Shaw Radhakishun is a Dutch-Surinamese lawyer, columnist, actor and radio and television producer.

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Jan Roos was a Dutch "lijsttrekker" of the party VNL for the Dutch elections in March 2017.

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Ebru Umar is a Dutch columnist of Turkish descent. Under the influence of Theo van Gogh, she gave up a career in management and became a columnist, first for van Gogh's website and, after he was assassinated, as his successor as a regular columnist of Metro. She writes for a number of Dutch magazines and has published four books, often on the topics of feminism and criticism of Islam.