MOTRA Monitor 2023/24

The latest observations from the MOTRA radicalization monitoring follow on from the findings reported in the last MOTRA Monitor 2022. The radicalization-prone polycrisis mode that emerged more frequently in 2022 is continuing, as it is reflected in a thematically broad protest scene that addresses a wide range of topics: from dealing with the pandemic to inflation, heating laws, the war in Ukraine and arms deliveries, refugee migration, climate and farmers' protests, and pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian protests under the impression of the Israel-Palestine conflict, which escalated massively as a result of the HAMAS terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. This broad spectrum of topics, which is fraught with conflict and thus with radicalization, is addressed discursively in various online and offline contexts from different ideological perspectives and is reflected in changed mentalities: in increasingly skeptical and even clearly negative attitudes towards the parliamentary democratic system and its institutions, with a mirror image of growing acceptance of autocracy. The noticeable increase in uncertainty among the population in view of the ongoing crisis mode is accompanied by a stronger convergence towards extremist interpretive worlds in broader sections of the population.