This report is one of the outcomes of the “Words are stones” project, promoted by Lunaria (IT) in collaboration with Adice (FR), Antigone-Information and documentation center on racism, ecology, peace and non-violence (EL), Grenzenlos (AT) , Kisa (CY) and SOS Racisme (ES), co-funded by the Europe For Citizens Programme of the European Union. The report collects the results of a study, a comparison and a shared discussion about hate speech in public debate that has involved dozens of activists, experts and citizens in six different European countries. The report is articulated in the following sections: Introduction; 1. Defining hate speech in a non-homogeneous legal context 2 A phenomenon difficult to quantify 3 An overall picture: themes, target groups and actors of hate speech in the public discourse 4. Civil society’s actions against hate speech 5. Towards coordinated strategies against discriminatory, xenophobic and racist hate speech, 6. Conclusions. Appendix: Debunking for hate speech narratives. Three examples. It’s an invasion; 2. They’re all CRIMINAL (or TERRORISTS); 3. Europeans first
