The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media has published the results of its annual index of racism and incitement on Israeli social media in 2019.
Its research revealed that the peak of incitement against the Palestinians including the Arabs in Israel in 2019 was correlated with the two rounds of Israeli election. It also shows that there was a 14 percent rise in violent discourse towards the Palestinians with one violent post every 64 seconds and at least one out of every 11 posts about Palestinians or Arabs using inciting language.
In 2019 nearly 495000 out of 5.4 million posts about Palestinians were violent posts including racist and inciting slurs and biased language. These statistics indicate a 5 percent rise in inciting posts in comparison to 2018 statistics which showed that 464000 out of 4.7 million posts about Palestinians included violent statements.
The 2019 index of racism shows that the two rounds of the Israeli election caused an 8 percent rise in violent discourse against the Arab community in Israel concerning politics.
The Center analyzed Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube and several platforms for the index of racism affirming that Facebook remains the most prominent social networking service that hosts violent discourse against the Palestinians as 41 percent of this discourse was published on this platform. On the other hand Twitter hosts 30 percent of the violent discourse against the Palestinians.
