The party shares the same electorate as Denk, mostly Islamic immigrants, although NIDA is more religiously oriented.

[8] The party first participated solely in Rotterdam, where it received two seats in the municipal council with 4.8% of the vote.

[13][14] However, the coalition collapsed over a tweet from 2014, where party leader Nourdin El Ouali compared Israel to Daesh.

[18] In November 2015, the party organised a similarly large march named 'Unity in Diversity Against Terrorism', with notable guests including the mayor of Rotterdam.

[20] In the 2024 European Parliament election NIDA co-founded the European political party Free Palestine, together with pro-Palestinian Muslim minority parties in Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden.