A few years ago, I was blogging at The Jawa Report and making assorted activism videos, and I began noticing a disturbing trend at sites like MySpace, YouTube, LiveLeak and other social networks. It seemed to me there had been a steady and rapid increase in the quantity of blatantly anti-Semitic commentary on these sites, and the geographical diversity of the people posting them.
They were certainly nothing new, but I began to notice an increased proliferation of Internet 'trolls' that seemed to have no other function than to spread disinformation about Israel and the Holocaust or simply to make libelous comments about Jews in general. Entire profiles were devoted to this, boasting large lists of 'friends' and subscribers, as well as voluminous libraries of support materials, such as anti-Israeli videos, book lists to dispel the 'myth of the holocaust' and link archives of like-minded individuals.
I decided to create a video about this anti-Semitism, and I posted it on the Jawa Report (via YouTube), along with 100 screen-captures of vile, anti-Semitic comments from assorted social networks. It did not take long to compile this hateful commentary; the difficulty was in sorting through such a large volume of egregious material...
They were certainly nothing new, but I began to notice an increased proliferation of Internet 'trolls' that seemed to have no other function than to spread disinformation about Israel and the Holocaust or simply to make libelous comments about Jews in general. Entire profiles were devoted to this, boasting large lists of 'friends' and subscribers, as well as voluminous libraries of support materials, such as anti-Israeli videos, book lists to dispel the 'myth of the holocaust' and link archives of like-minded individuals.
I decided to create a video about this anti-Semitism, and I posted it on the Jawa Report (via YouTube), along with 100 screen-captures of vile, anti-Semitic comments from assorted social networks. It did not take long to compile this hateful commentary; the difficulty was in sorting through such a large volume of egregious material...