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Apr. 7, 2021 12:49 PM
Coronavirus lockdowns last year shifted some antisemitic hatred online, where conspiracy theories blaming Jews for the pandemic’s medical and economic devastation abounded, Israeli researchers reported Wednesday. That’s raised concerns about a rise in antisemitism in the post-pandemic world.
The findings, which came in an annual report by Tel Aviv University s researchers on antisemitism, show that the social isolation of the pandemic kept Jews away from those who wish to harm them.
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Pandemic amped up anti-Semitism, forced it online, report says
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FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2019 file photo, Strasbourg chief Rabbi Harold Abraham Weill looks at vandalized tombs in the Jewish cemetery of Westhoffen, west of the city of Strasbourg, eastern France. Coronavirus lockdowns in 2020 shifted some anti-Semitic hatred online, where conspiracy theories blaming Jews for the pandemics medical and economic devastation abounded, Israeli researchers at Tel Aviv University s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry in an annual report Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File) (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
TEL AVIV – Coronavirus lockdowns last year shifted some anti-Semitic hatred online, where conspiracy theories blaming Jews for the pandemic’s medical and economic devastation abounded, Israeli researchers reported Wednesday. That’s raised concerns about a rise in anti-Semi
Coronavirus lockdowns last year shifted some anti-Semitic hatred online, where conspiracy theories blaming Jews for the pandemic’s medical and economic devastation abounded, Israeli researchers reported Wednesday. It has raised concerns about a rise in anti-Semitism in the post-pandemic world.
The findings, which came in an annual report by Tel Aviv University s researchers on anti-Semitism, show that the social isolation of the pandemic kept Jews away from those who wish to harm them.
The number of violent incidents toward Jews across some 40 countries dropped last year, from 456 to 371 roughly the same levels the researchers reported from 2016 to 2018.
Online, the scene was much different, researchers reported, a potential warning sign that as pandemic restrictions ease, hateful conduct toward Jews could intensify as it has during some of humanity s other historic struggles.
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However, the report continued, there was a “downside to this improvement: the decrease of antisemitism in the leading networks led to a strengthening of undercurrents namely, the darknet.”
The report’s analysis of content circulating on the darknet online spaces accessed through specialized applications that protect the identity of the user revealed that “while in the open networks about 70 percent of the antisemitic messages deal with new antisemitism, and about a quarter express classic antisemitism, this ratio is reversed in the darknet: about 70 percent manifest classic antisemitism and only about 20 percent display new antisemitism.”
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