‘Inciting a Pogrom?’ Social Media and the Racist Disorder in Ballymena and beyond during Summer 2025
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This report builds on the Mapping Far Right Activity Online in Northern Ireland Project Report (May 2025), which examined case studies of far-right activity, from racist housing intimidation in South Belfast (2023) to the racist and Islamophobic violence in Belfast on 3 August 2024. That report analysed social media narratives, political messaging, and responses to these incidents, and was launched in Belfast, Derry, and later at the Irish Council of Civil Liberties and CAJ annual policing conference in Dublin. It also became a point of international media reference at the time of the June 2025.
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Acknowledgements
The report was funded by Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, AB Charitable Trust and the Civic Power Fund: Emergency Action Fund. A snapshot exercise which trigged the broader project following the August 2024 violence, was supported by Equality Coalition programme costs provided by the UNISON Campaign Fund.