Khudair Abbas Al-Dahlaki
Far-right political parties and forces have been investing in crises to promote their racist ideas and attracting important segments of European societies (check Annex No.1) and focusing on the youth age group, as well as carrying out attacks against refugees and foreigners in general, Muslims in particular. The outbreak of the (Covid-19) pandemic has allowed the far-right to show its passion for conspiratorial thinking. There are many conspiracy theories about the origin of the pandemic and how it spread, which have begun to be promoted, and include an endless list of: “Jews, Muslims, Israel, CIA, China, George Soros, And even the United Nations,” which led to a rise in hate speech and a rise in its crime rates, and incidents of vandalism, such as setting fire to the towers of the new “5G” mobile cellphone program in the United Kingdom due to the strange theory that these towers were the real reason behind the outbreak of the (Covid-19) pandemic. In addition to conspiracy theories, economic fears of lockdown have given the far-right a space in which it is possible to promote anti-establishment sentiment. Most far-right forces have shown a degree of mistrust in the actions taken to curb the pandemic. Some neo-Nazi movements view the lockdown as not only a sinister act but a conspiracy to infiltrate a police State and confiscate freedoms.
