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Julia Ebner

Julia Ebner is an Austrian academic and author who leads the Violent Extremism Lab at the University of Oxford’s Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion. She is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and author of The Rage, Going Dark and Going Mainstream

September 2024

  • TOPSHOT-AUSTRIA-POLITICS-VOTE<br>TOPSHOT - Herbert Kickl, leader and top candidate of right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) is celebrated by supporters as he arrives at the party's election event after exit poll numbers where announced at the Stiegl-Ambulanz restaurant in Vienna, Austria on September 29, 2024, during Austria's general election. Austria's far right FPOe was ahead of the ruling conservatives in Sunday's national vote, according to projections published by public broadcaster ORF, setting them up for a historic win. (Photo by Alex HALADA / AFP) (Photo by ALEX HALADA/AFP via Getty Images)

    How did the far right win in Austria? To understand, look to its global networks

    Julia Ebner
    The Freedom party hasn’t only harnessed discontent at home – it is drawing on once-fringe ideas that have spread around the world, says Austrian academic and author Julia Ebner

July 2023

  • Elia Barbieri

    The big idea
    The big idea: is it too late to stop extremism taking over politics?

    Bizarre conspiracy thinking has infiltrated the mainstream in many western democracies. How can we push back?

August 2019

  • People pray beside crosses with the names of victims of the shooting that left 22 people dead at the Cielo Vista Mall WalMart in El Paso, Texas, on 5 August 2019

    How do we beat 8chan and other far-right sites? The same way we beat Isis

    Julia Ebner
    A determined international operation is desperately required to halt the spread of white supremacist propaganda, says Austrian journalist Julia Ebner

May 2019

  • President Alexander Van der Bellen (centre R), chancellor Sebastian Kurz (centre L) and Austria’s new interim ministers on Wednesday.

    Austria’s crisis is a lesson for Europe: far-right parties are unfit to govern

    Julia Ebner
    The Freedom party is destroying public trust in democracy, says the Austrian journalist Julie Ebner

February 2019

  • Computer hacker working on laptop in the dark<br>Man hacker in hood and headphones working on laptop in the dark

    Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy

    Julia Ebner
    Cannibals, aliens and clandestine lizard overlords. Due to social media algorithms, such ideas threaten the future of Europe, writes Julia Ebner of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue

November 2018

  • Supporters of the National Action group in Newcastle, 2015.

    The far right have a safe haven online. We cannot let their lies take root

    Julia Ebner
    Jailing members of banned groups has done little to stem the dissemination of white supremacist propaganda, says Austrian journalist Julia Ebner

July 2018

  • Free Tommy Robinson protesters

    Tommy Robinson’s cheerleaders are hypocrites, but his strategy is working

    Julia Ebner
    Despite stirring up hatred and silencing opponents, he is still presented as the underdog by the global far right, says Austrian journalist Julia Ebner

January 2018

  • far-right march in Charlottesville last August

    The currency of the far-right: why neo-Nazis love bitcoin

    Julia Ebner
    For extremists cryptocurrencies are a political statement as much as a means to make money, writes researcher and author Julia Ebner

September 2017

  • AfD top candidate Alexander Gauland takes his briefcase as he leaves after a press conference of the Alternative for Germany, AfD, in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017, the day after the nationalist party was elected first time into the German parliament. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

    How Germany’s far right took over Twitter – and tilted the election

    Julia Ebner
    A sophisticated and tightly organised troll army has spent the last three months championing a ‘patriotic revolution’, writes Julia Ebner of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue

August 2017

  • Violent Clashes Erupt at "Unite The Right" Rally In Charlottesville<br>CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - AUGUST 12: Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" march down East Market Street toward Lee Park during the "United the Right" rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. After clashes with anti-facist protesters and police the rally was declared an unlawful gathering and people were forced out of Lee Park, where a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is slated to be removed. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

    The far right has learned to mobilise and radicalise. Charlottesville’s a wake-up call

    Julia Ebner and Jacob Davey
    A dangerous coalition is emerging, cloaked in non-violent rhetoric, write Julia Ebner and Jacob Davey, researchers into far-right extremism

May 2017

  • Britain First and EDL protesters in London

    The far right thrives on global networks. They must be fought online and off

    Julia Ebner
    Nationalists across the world are sharing knowledge and reinforcing messages of hate. The fightback begins with social media companies, and all of us

February 2017

  • A woman wearing a full-face veil

    Austria’s full-face veil ban is a kneejerk reaction to the rise of the far right

    Julia Ebner
    In the hope of preserving the status quo the government is enacting a symbolic policy that feeds into identity wars between Muslim and non-Muslim

December 2016

  • Alexander Van der Bellen celebrates with supporters.

    Austria defeated the far-right Norbert Hofer – finally, some hope for Europe

    Julia Ebner
    In a runoff between hatred and empathy, Alexander Van der Bellen’s victory has given us reason for optimism – within reason

June 2016

  • Shoppers in Green Street, Newham

    I’m an Austrian in the UK – I don’t want to live in this increasingly racist country

    Julia Ebner and Janet Anderson
    An Austrian living in the UK and a Briton living in the Netherlands are united in their dismay at the attitudes that the EU referendum result reveals

May 2016

  • Supporters of Austrian Freedom party.

    Beaten but not broken, Austria’s far-right will come back for more

    Julia Ebner
    The huge support for anti-immigrant, anti-EU candidate Norbert Hofer is part of the dangerous new political landscape in Europe
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