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Antisemitizmus a islamofóbia v symbolike slovenskej krajnej pravice počas migračnej krízy (2015–2016)
Translated Title: Antisemitism and Islamophobia in the Symbolic Discourse of the Slovak Far Right during the Migration Crisis (2015–2016)
Author(s): Csikosová, Katarína
Date: 2026
Topics: Antisemitism: Right-Wing, Ethnography, Antisemitism: Online, Islamophobia, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Nationalism, Politics: Political Parties, Xenophobia
Abstract: This study examines the symbolic dimension of far-right extremism in Slovakia during the 2015 migration crisis. It explores how nationalist and extremist movements, such as the People’s Party – Our Slovakia (ĽSNS) and affiliated groups, appropriated historical and visual symbols online and in public spaces to construct narratives of cultural and national threat. Drawing on Mary Douglas’s theory of purity and danger and an ethnographic analysis of migration-related Facebook content, the study suggests that these symbols delineate boundaries between the “pure” in-group and the “impure” other, with Muslims increasingly occupying roles historically attributed to Jews in antisemitic discourse. The research suggests continuities between historical antisemitic imagery and contemporary Islamophobic rhetoric in the Slovak far right, demonstrating how traditional hate symbols are recontextualized to normalize xenophobia.