Tweeting #RemoveKebab: A Critical Study of the Far Right's Islamophobic Hate Hashtag on Twitter

Abstract

Background: To contribute to research on the transnational far right, Islamophobia, and social media platforms, this article interrogates the far right's practice of using Twitter to produce and circulate a #removekebab hashtag. Analysis: The accounts behind the words and images of 100 #removekebab tweets are analyzed to show how they communicate the transnational far right's hateful Islamophobic discourse. Conclusion and implications: The far right's #removekebab tweets dehumanize Muslims, tacitly call for genocide against Muslims, and rationalize this violence by stereotyping Muslims as a collective threat to the West.