According to a recent study, anti-Semitism is widespread and easily accessible on the Internet. “All imaginable forms of anti-Semitism can be found on all social networks without much effort,” said the Amadeu Antonio Foundation on the occasion of an international forum to commemorate the Holocaust and the fight against anti-Semitism in the southern city of Malmö. from Sweden. .

It is particularly worrying that young people only come into contact with conspiracy ideologies and anti-Semitism through networks such as Tiktok and Instagram without having been previously informed about these phenomena.

More decisive action is required

Hashtags with terms under which conspiracy narratives were spread showed millions of posts spreading anti-Semitic prejudice and devaluation with a single click. More explicit anti-Semitic hashtags should also be used on Instagram, for example, he revealed Wednesday. joint study published the Amadeu Antonio Foundation and the Swedish Expo Foundation and the British organization Hope not Hate. The authors demanded a clear commitment from internet companies to ban anti-Semitism on their platforms.

“It’s really amazing that despite ten years of trying to stamp out hate speech, we find anti-Semitism on every social media platform we study,” said Joe Mulhall of Hope not Hate. A new generation learned about anti-Semitic ideas online that they would otherwise hardly have come into contact with.

At the Malmö Forum, at the invitation of Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, representatives of governments, organizations, science and civil society wanted to talk about how the memory of the National Socialist murder of around six million Jews and the hostility against the Jews can be kept alive. Jews. you can fight better. European State Minister Michael Roth (SPD) is there from Germany.

(mho)