- Rutgers University’s Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and the Ruderman Foundation quantitatively analyzed the relationship between anti-Zionist and antisemitic tropes on Twitter over a two-and-a-half-year period.
- Research shows a strong correlation between antisemitism and anti-Zionism on an individual level, with attacks against Jews in the U.S. correlating with conflicts in Israel.
- They found that the popularity of traditional antisemitic tropes and anti-Zionist tropes on Twitter fluctuated inversely, and their rise or fall was influenced by real-world factors such as political leadership, conflicts in the Middle East, and domestic political unrest. Both tropes were linked to popular unrest and correlated with harms against vulnerable communities in the real world. Read More
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