873: 250 million anti-Jewish online posts at a critical moment in democracy. Joel Finkelstein, @ncri_io; and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres
250 million anti-Jewish online posts at a critical moment in democracy. Joel Finkelstein, @ncri_io; and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres Image: Republican National Committee chairman before Dies Committee. Washington, D.C., May 22. John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, today told the Dies Committee Investigating Un-American Activities that he had no prior knowledge of the activities of persons alleged to have disseminated anti-Semitic propaganda. Hamilton was subpoenaed after it was learned that he had exchanged letters with a Mr. Campbell, who described himself before the committee today as an 'American nationalist' opposed to the internationalist sentiment that he said is trying to get the nation into foreign wars. Joel Finkelstein, @ncri_io; and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: Online anti-Semitism. Conversation with a Knesset member on this. This is a profound intl concern, basically about the integrity of democracy everywhere. Anti-Semitism is what historically has been used to spike the punch; now it's highly internationalized using [digital]. See 250 million posts. At Princeton in 2018 we studied the brain and [hatred]; the attack in Pittsburgh occurred. Left and right are identical in this. It arrives like seismic activity at critical moments in democracy. State Dept was anti-Semitic all through WWII. Also, many just tolerate it. Instead of saying “Jews are evil,” we can just say, “Israel is evil.” Similarly, attacks on Soros. Main media platforms: we have to curtail these behaviors. We had institutions created over time to do that; need something comparable today. Joel Finkelstein is the co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute. A visiting Fellowat the James Madison Program at Princeton University, Joel also holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton, where his award-winning doctoral work focused on the psychology and neuroscience of addiction and social behavior. Joel is an active strategic resource to media outlets, policy makers, advocacy groups, and investigators to help turn tools for social science into tools for social justice. His work on hatred and deceit in social media has appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, NPR and other media outlets. https://www.timesofisrael.com/russian-trolls-stoke-online-anti-semitism-when-tensions-peak-in-us-report-says/ https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/12/16/donald-trump-qanon-conspiracies-griffin-pkg-ac360-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/ac360-videos/