From March 2006 to June 2009, he was a member of the municipal council of Almere on behalf of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy.

Controversial comments on the Moroccan minority in the Netherlands by party leader Geert Wilders after the 2014 local elections played part in this decision.

[4] In May 2014, Joram van Klaveren, together with Louis Bontes and Johan Driessen, founded a new conservative political party called For the Netherlands (VNL).

After failing to get reelected during the 2017 general election because VNL did not secure a single seat, van Klaveren's term in the House formally ended on 23 March 2017.

[1] Subsequently, he became a commentator in April 2017 for the daily radio show Dit is de Dag, produced by Christian public broadcaster EO.

In 2019, in interviews on the occasion of his publishing De afvallige ('The Renegade'), which chronicles his search for religion and religiosity, he mentioned that he now accepts Muhammad as a prophet, and said that he had converted to Islam.

[11][better source needed] In his book, Apostate: From Christianity to Islam in Times of Secularisation and Terror, van Klaveren talked about his testimony of faith: "With the idea in mind that one God Whom Moses and Jesus, amongst others, spoke about is the same as the God that we read about in the Quran, and that Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, without any doubts fits the line of prophets from the Bible, I decided to pronounce the testimony of faith.