Notable co-ordination via ‘online social media activity’ from within North and ‘outside the island of Ireland’, say police

A Belfast knife attack has become a right-wing social media clarion call to protest against immigration.

Northern Ireland’s justice minister says online ‘bad faith actors’ have incited racism in city after knife attack

Elon Musk amplifies calls for street protests as violence spirals overnight

Despite calls for calm, masked anti-immigration protesters in Belfast set a bus, vehicles and some homes on fire in what one politician called "a race-based pogrom."

Ministers have blamed far-right online agitators for stoking racial tension following a stabbing.

The agitated protestors put a Belfast bus on fire and pelted stones at police, reported news agency Associated Press. | World News

While brave bystanders ran to help a stabbing victim, online hate-mongers used the tragedy to spark a race-based pogrom. We cannot let a violent minority destroy Belfast's peace.

The violence is concentrated on the Protestant side of Belfast’s divide in working-class communities where the outlawed UDA and UVF hold sway.

Houses, cars, a bus and a supermarket were set alight as parts of the city descended into chaos, with claims non-white residents were deliberately targeted.

Far-right racism in mainland Britain and traditional Northern Ireland sectarianism are combining in bizarre ways

PSNI warns that specific homes are being targeted online to incite further anti-immigration protests following riots in Belfast

Families were forced to cower or flee as masked and hooded rioters ransacked homes and torched cars belonging to 'foreigners' on Tuesday night.

Politicians, social media and far-right agitators convinced people that migrant-targeting violence would solve all their problems

Masked rioters throw petrol bombs at police during second night of violence

UK minister says violence in Northern Ireland is ‘racist thuggery’ as ethnic minorities are targeted.

UK minister says violence in Northern Ireland is ‘racist thuggery’ as ethnic minorities are targeted.

For years, politicians and media have encouraged people to view migrants as invaders, and Muslims as a problem to be managed

Crowds exploiting a knife attack are inflicting terror on Northern Ireland's ethnic minority communities.

There were reports that a woman had been raped in the local area - within days online agitators had mobilised people to the streets

In the wake of anti-immigration riots in West Belfast, community members have shown their support for immigrants.