Hamas, Antisemitism and Social Media Incitement

• Autor(a) principal: Bartal, Shaul
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/29436
• topic: Hamas; Gaza Strip; The Palestine-Israel Conflict

Over the past few years, Palestinians have been spreading their ideology through social media with calls for resistance against Israel. The Hamas organization of today is the strongest and most influential organization in Palestinian society. The majority of the Palestinians believe that Hamas represents them even better than the Fatah organization in regard to the Palestinian problem. Supporters of the Hamas organization will sometimes present Jews in anti-Semitic way. Why? The answer is in this article. The Jews are depicted as running after money and profit who buy the Arabs with money or as cruel soldiers who attack the innocent. Sometimes, in times of tension, caricatures will appear that explicitly call for harming the Jews. An example of this is a caricature of a young Haredi man with weapons aimed at himself. The caption on the side of the picture reads that they need to be killed. This article will present the Palestinian social media that supporters of Hamas use to present the conflict against Israel as a religious war with an anti-Semitic attitude.