https://speakerdeck.com/philosophy 2025-10-15 13:46:31 -0400 Video on social media has become a core battleground for contemporary understandings of Judaism, Israel and the wider Jewish story. Unfortunately, this battleground has become largely dominated by organised state and non-state actors determined to cement prejudicial views in the minds of Western audiences. At the Contemporary Antisemitism Conference in London 2025, Phil ran through the techniques used to cement these antisemitic narratives using online video. By using a combination of large web scrapers to pull in data from the two prominent video platforms and then using AI at scale to parse video transcripts, Phil has been able to build a comprehensive picture of how much antisemitic content is evident across these platform He shows that for the topic of Zionism, 69% of videos ranking on YouTube contained a clearly “anti-zionist” message, and 44% contained an explicitly antisemitic conspiracy theory. Video on social media has become a core battleground for contemporary understandings of Judaism, Israel and the wider Jewish story. Unfortunately, this battleground has become largely dominated by organised state and non-state actors determined to cement prejudicial views in the minds of Western audiences. At the Contemporary Antisemitism Conference in London 2025, Phil ran through the techniques used to cement these antisemitic narratives using online video. By using a combination of large web scrapers to pull in data from the two prominent video platforms and then using AI at scale to parse video transcripts, Phil has been able to build a comprehensive picture of how much antisemitic content is evident across these platform He shows that for the topic of Zionism, 69% of videos ranking on YouTube contained a clearly “anti-zionist” message, and 44% contained an explicitly antisemitic conspiracy theory. Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://speakerdeck.com/philosophy/how-antisemitic-narratives-are-spread-using-online-video-on-social-media https://speakerdeck.com/philosophy/how-antisemitic-narratives-are-spread-using-online-video-on-social-media