Dear Friends,
Dear Colleagues,
The research project “Decoding Antisemitism” at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism and King’s College London investigates the extent and forms of antisemitic hate speech on websites in Great Britain, France and Germany. The focus is not on radicalised milieus, but on users of websites within the political mainstream. In this respect, the project sees itself as an early warning system for broad societal shifts, and aims to sensitise political groups and civil societies to them.
We are pleased to refer you to the third project-related discourse report. You can now find the PDF files in English, French and German on our website:
https://decoding-antisemitism.eu
Over the past months, we have been analysing online comments responding to two recent controversies. The first is the heated debate in France about the introduction of the so-called health pass, the Covid-19 “passport”. The second is the reaction in Germany to three criminal proceedings against former concentration camp personnel. While radically distinct in content and context, our analysis shows that antisemitic responses to both events are underpinned by Holocaust distortion or trivialisation, and that antisemitic tropes are frequently used to critique the actions of the respective governments. In future reports, we will continue to focus on these and other tropes also in relation to UK-specific discourse events; you will find analyses of such events also in Discourse Reports 1 and 2.
In the next phase of the project, our findings will be used to train artificial intelligence. In that stage, an algorithm will learn to mimic the application of expert knowledge in order to detect antisemitic speech in a context-sensitive way.
If you would like to receive the news about our project and be notified about the next discourse reports, please send an email to:
Thank you and best regards!
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