An armchair rioter was jailed for 20 months for encouraging people on social media to attack a hotel in Leeds housing more than 200 migrants.
Jordan Parlour, 28, made Facebook posts on August 4 with the intention of sparking tensions while anti-immigration demonstrations were taking place nationwide.
Parlour pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words in the posts before magistrates in Leeds and was sentenced at the city's Crown Court.
Parlour is believed to be the first person to face prosecution for posting allegedly criminal messages linked to the violence.
He posted a Facebook status which suggested that "every man and his dog" should target the Britannia Hotel in Seacroft.
He also claimed in a comment on Facebook that migrants were given "the Life of Riley off the tax us hard-working people earn when it could be put to better use".
At the time of Parlour's posts, the Britannia Hotel was housing 210 migrants and over the weekend staff there reported that damage had been caused to the bedroom windows.
The hotel was later locked down to protect those living there.
Sentencing Parlour, the Recorder of Leeds, Judge Guy Kearl KC, told him: "Your intention was to incite violence.
"You were encouraging others to attack a hotel which you know was occupied by refugees and asylum seekers."
Judge Kearl said the offence was aggravated by "the timing of your posts, at a time of social unrest and particular sensitivity across the country".
A custodial sentence was therefore "unavoidable", he added.
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