Roeland Raes

Roeland Raes
Born
Roland Henri Theofiel Raes

(1934-09-04) 4 September 1934 (age 90)
Ghent
NationalityBelgian
Occupationpolitician

Roland Henri Theofiel (Roeland) Raes (born 4 September 1934) is a Belgian politician, a former senator for and vice president of the political party Vlaams Blok. Raes took a dr. iur. (J.D.) at Ghent University.

He became politically active in 1955, when he became a member of the Volksunie. He was senator for Vlaams Blok from 1995 until 2002. At the moment he is Vlaams Belang chapter leader of Lovendegem, member of the Vlaams Belang party board of the district Gent-Eeklo and (as a former senator) member of the national party council of the Vlaams Belang. He works at the party headquarters in Brussels as an archivarian.

Raes was convicted for Holocaust denial.[1] Critics accuse him of being an antisemite.[2]

He is a prominent member of Voorpost. He is a pagan[3] and has written for pagan publications such as the magazine TeKoS[4] and Guy de Martelaere's newsletter Gwenved.[5]

  1. ^ (in Dutch) Oud-senator Roeland Raes schuldig aan negationisme (Former Senator Roeland Raes guilty of negationism), De Standaard, 15 September 2010.
  2. ^ Ben-Moshe, Danny, "The State of Holocaust Negation" (pp. 143–144) in Kwiet and Matthaus (eds), Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust (Praeger Series on Jewish and Israeli Studies, pp. 139–176. Westport: Praeger, 2004. ISBN 0-275-97466-9.
  3. ^ "Journalist ontdekt nieuwe heidenen in Vlaams Blok". 16 September 2000.
  4. ^ "Rechts-extremisme geen jeugdzonde Graal-auteur". 4 February 1998.
  5. ^ Annemie Dillen; Didier Pollefeyt (2006). God overal en nergens?: theologie, pastoraal en onderwijs uitgedaagd door een "sacraal reveil". ACCO. p. 337. ISBN 978-90-334-6239-9.