Genocide in Gaza? Social Media Discussions of Violence in Israel and Gaza
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This article conducts social network and topic analyses of German-language posts on X that discuss genocide and terrorism in Israel and Gaza in the first six months after the October 7 attacks and compares these to broader English-language discourses on the platform. The comparison reveals subtle differences in how Israeli violence and governance and Palestinians are discussed and who is seen as complicit in supporting violence. Markedly, German-language posts discuss what constitutes antisemitism more and employ a more restrained language towards Israel as a state and its political actors than English-language posts. We tie these findings back to the idiosyncrasies of the German memory culture.
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Antisemitism: Online Conflict and Controversy Attitudes to Israel Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Main Topic: Other October 7 2023 attacks + aftermath Palestinian Solidarity and Activism Social Media
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
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20(1)
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38–61
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Genocide in Gaza? Social Media Discussions of Violence in Israel and Gaza. 2026: 38–61. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.5038/1911-9933.20.1.2083
