Brigitte Gazel, a candidate for the National ally party, made an invitation to violence during the annual congress, stereotyping Muslims and feeding a culture of fear.

German newsreader Constantin Schreiber has published a fiction book which perpetuates stereotypes and fear of Muslim people. He also developed a “Mosquepedia” (Map of mosques) and publishes sensationalist and hateful content aimed at Muslims.

In an interview to Greece’s OPEN TV channel, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos II falsely claimed that “Islam is not a religion, it is a political party” of “war” and “expansion.”

A Hungarian ministerial cultural commissioner has retracted an opinion article where he likened the US-Hungarian billionaire and philanthropist George Soros to Adolf Hitler, after pressure from Jewish organisations.

Editor-in-Chief of the French conservative magazine Causeur, Elisabeth Levy, has told CNEWS that Muslim women should have taken their headscarf off for a week in honour of Samuel Paty.

Alain Soral’s youtube channels have been deleted for inciting racial hatred.

Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala has been sued and had his youtube channel deleted for inciting racial hatred.

Nigel Farage has left radio station LBC with immediate effect, in what seems to have been a sudden decision.

Recently, British media personality Katie Hopkins was permanently suspended from Twitter. This action came after multiple temporary suspensions of Hopkins’ account due to violations of Twitter’s hate speech policies, with her most recent suspension just months prior in January 2020. 

The French organisations Licra and Crif have taken legal action against the comedian Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala. The polemist has been sued for incitement to racial hatred and Holocaust denial, based on two antisemitic videos which he posted on his YouTube channel.  

A local newspaper in Hull, a city in the United Kingdom, published an divisive article in their print paper in March. 

From the 21st to the 26th of February, the annual Carnival parade took place in Aalst, Belgium. Last year, the event drew a large number of complaints from Jewish organisations and public institutions due to the antisemitic stereotypical dresses and costumes exposed during the parade. This led UNESCO to officially removed Aalst Carnival from the UNESCO Intangible World Heritage list. In response to criticism at the time, the mayor of Aalst stated that he believes the group when they say there was no malicious intent with the float, and that the city does not want to impose censure on the carnival.