The activities of far-right groups are normalizing by shifting to the digital sphere

HANDE ATILGAN ANKARA - During the protests, anti-Semitism was detected 28 times, anti-Islam sentiment 41 times, race-based incidents 76 times, anti-immigrant and foreigner sentiment 62 times, and anti-management and anti-system sentiment 17 times. The majority of the cases were seen in the USA (82), the UK (33), Italy (20) and Spain (16). Race-based incidents came to the fore with 40 cases in the USA, anti-immigrant and foreigner sentiment with 14 cases in the United Kingdom and 13 cases in Italy, and anti-management and anti-system sentiment with 6 cases in Spain.

The countries where the most violent acts occurred were listed as the United Kingdom (9), the USA (7) and the Netherlands (5). The findings regarding Israel in the report attracted attention. While the influence of the military aggression and occupying mentality led by the far right in the Palestinian genocide increases day by day, the only action recorded on the streets of the country was a protest against the administration and the system. On the other hand, Israel continues to get closer to far-right politics, especially European examples, in order to replace the support it has lost in the international community.

'The threat did not remain at the level of discourse'

While the report emphasized that there has been a serious change in the decentralized structure of the far right in the last 10 years, the following findings were made:

"This transformation, which makes it difficult to monitor and prevent the phenomenon, on the one hand makes the threat less visible, on the other hand, it also leads to an increase in social acceptance as a result of the activities of far-right groups being moved predominantly to the digital sphere and the normalization of radical discourses over time. This data set, obtained on the basis of the case in the first half of 2026, shows that the threat does not remain at the discursive level, but has gained an operational dimension, by monitoring the developments ranging from propaganda production to actual acts of violence."