Understanding Online Antisemitism: Towards a New Qualitative Approach | Fathom

When the antisemitic Pittsburgh shooting happened roughly a year ago, on 27 October 2018, mainstream media drew attention to the assailant’s activities online before he committed his crimes. The Guardian noted that the ‘suspect railed against Jews and Muslims on site used by “alt-right”. Robert Bowers appears to have used the platform Gab to accuse Jews of bringing “evil Muslims” into US’. And only recently, on 9 October 2019, in Halle (Germany), the gunman referred to an antisemitic conspiracy theory on Amazon-owned platform Twitch, insinuating that Jews aim at destroying the German culture before he tried to kill roughly 80 people celebrating Yom Kippur at a synagogue.