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Publications
How Forum Politicians Reinforce Anti-Semitism on Twitter
Qualitative and Quantitative Research on Anti-Semitism in Accounts Retweeted by FVD Politicians
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This investigation looks at the retweets of anti-Semitic accounts by FVDers.
Conclusion from this report:
FVD politicians retweet and like tweets from anti-Semitic accounts significantly more often
or tweets with an anti-Semitic undertone than politicians from other parties. From the
qualitative analysis shows that the two main categories in the antisemitic
tweets from these accounts are “hardcore” and “diffuse” anti-Semitism. The first kind
explicitly targets Jews and is part of the core message of the
accounts. The second is characterized by anti-Semitic stereotypes and
story motifs, but is intertwined with other conspiracy theories such as QAnon and
de Great Reset.
The quantitative analysis shows that no Dutch political party
standalone 'hardcore antisemitism' tweet. Do retweet and like Forum politicians
for Democracy almost five times more often tweets from 'hardcore anti-Semitic' accounts
than random Twitter users (this concerns in particular not explicit
anti-Semitic tweets from accounts that are structurally “hardcore anti-Semitic”
spread tweets). Retweet or like other Dutch political parties like this
good as never tweets from 'hardcore antisemitic' accounts. Forum retweet and like
average 33 ‘hardcore antisemitische’ tweets per 5000 tweets, retweets en likes.
For the random set, this number is 9, for the PVV on 1 and for everyone else
parties on 0. In addition, follow 17 from 36 FvD-accounts 1 or more ‘hardcore
antisemitic' accounts. For example, for the PVV, this number is 'only' at 1 en
for other parties on 0.
In addition, there is no less than more than 10 percent of all Twitter activity
of the investigated FVD politicians from liking and retweeting 'diffuse'
antisemitic' accounts. For the PVV this number is 2 percent, for the
random set at just under 1 percent and for all other parties on 0. Ook
FVD spreads most of the Holocaust comparisons and tweets that use alt-right jargon
contain (slang linked to anti-Semitic fringe media). Only for the category
'anti-Israel' we find the highest activity in the party THINK. THINK likes and
retweet average 9 ‘anti-Israel’-tweets per 5000 likes en retweets. For Bij1, D66,
FVD, GL and the random set is this number on 1. For PVV and SGP on 0.