How Can YOU Stop Antisemitism?
Through the presentation of data and various information collected within organized reports and studies of antisemitism both in the online realm and the physical, this short page presents the tools to easily identify antisemitism when scrolling through social media, and how to call it out and stop it in the process.
What Do These Words Mean?
Certain words have special meanings and contexts as it pertains to fighting antisemitism, such as the word itself, which is spelled purposefully without any capitalizes or hyphens. Other words carry explanation as well, and can be found succinctly and easily through the Translate Hate Initiative, ran through the American Jewish Comittee.
How does one distinguish between what is and isn't antisemitism? What is the frequently used tropes and themes found within antisemitic social media posts? How can one differentiate between valid criticism off the Jewish State and antisemitism? These report explicitly shows and explains what is and isn't antisemitism, the different forms, and why, all through specific graphic elements.
Online Antisemitism - What Does it Look Like?
These studies accurately gather antisemitic social media posts and categorize the different facets of the language and structure that classify it as an antisemitic post. By organizing this information through tables and analysis, one is able to discern what points to look for within a post in order to recognize the antisemitism within it.
The exercise below, originally meant for students, is excellent for activists/social media users to employ while scrolling through their feed. The key of my website is to allow social media users, especially activists, to recognize and confront antisemitism and antisemitic misinformation; therefore this and other exercises found within this workbook serves as a great stepping stone for next steps and how to employ the tools learned on this website to actually make a change and report the misinformed posts.
Infographic Example
To convey the power, efficiency, and simpleness of an infographic, I decided to craft my own in a way that shows information in a reliable way while addressing the issue at hand of correctly identifying and calling out antisemitism. Within this infographic are the Three D's of antisemitism, or in other words three simply guidelines of what constitutes antisemitism, so as to more easily recognize it. Notice the quotations and provided source, and the clear reliability of the information. Remember the ways in which a random infographic on social media may seem trustworthy but carry the typical signs of misinformation.
Example of an antisemitic infographic:
