Case Study

Antisemitism

PROBLEM

In 2025, the Israel–Hamas war and domestic political controversies triggered widespread antisemitic discourse across Lithuania’s digital media. Comment sections on news platforms became channels for hate speech, conspiracy narratives, and collective blame.

OUR RESEARCH

We analyzed 28,460 public comments from October to December 2025 using a narrative-intelligence pipeline. The study classified explicit and coded antisemitism, detected temporal spikes, and clustered narratives to see how hate emerges, spreads, and escalates in response to news events.

FINDINGS

The dominant pattern is collective guilt, portraying Jews as responsible for wars, historical crimes, and global instability. Historical distortion and coded conspiracy narratives reinforce hate while evading moderation. Israel-related news often triggers identity-based attacks, turning political criticism into ethnic hostility.

More than half of the comments mentioning Jews were antisemitic, and nearly 90% of those were explicit. Hate surges followed predictable patterns tied to news cycles, showing antisemitism as a systemic, event-driven phenomenon rather than isolated remarks.

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