Decoding Antisemitism

“Decoding Antisemitism is an essential resource to specialists who seek to understand the dynamics by which antisemitism is spread in online forums.”

-Dr Robert J. Williams, Finci-Viterbi Executive Director, USC Shoah Foundation; Advisor, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance; UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education, USA

“This book provides outstanding guidance for deciphering the antisemitic codes and communication patterns that have spread in unprecedented fashion throughout the social media era.”

-Dr Juliane Wetzel, Centre for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin.

This Open Access book is the first comprehensive guide to identifying antisemitism online, in both its explicit and implicit forms. Developed through years of on-the-ground analysis of tens of thousands of authentic web comments the book maps out and deconstructs, with concrete examples, more than 45 key antisemitic concepts. The guide was assembled by researchers working on the Decoding Antisemitism project at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at Technische Universität Berlin, building on and extending existing definitions of antisemitism, and drawing on expertise in varied fields. This book will be an invaluable tool for researchers, students, practitioners in education, police, justice, NGOs and politics, and social media moderators to learn to recognise contemporary antisemitism in all its breadth and diversity.

Matthias J. Becker is the Project Lead on the “Decoding Antisemitism” research project (TU Berlin, Germany).

Hagen Troschke is an interdisciplinary researcher focusing on current developments of antisemitism.

Matthew Bolton is Co-Lead on the UK team of the “Decoding Antisemitism” project. He is the co-author of Corbynism: A Critical Approach (2018).