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May 24, 2019

Boycott-Israel Facebook Groups Attract Neo-Nazis

And their administrators do nothing.

One of the myths about contemporary anti-Semitism is that there is a clear line dividing it from obsessive hatred of Israel; another is that it is not uncommon for today’s anti-Semites to support the Jewish state. But C.R. Rublin’s systematic study of anti-Israel Facebook groups shows a very different picture. Examining groups with such names as “Boycott Israel,” “BDS First,” and “Stand with Palestine”—with memberships ranging from 2,000 to 60,000—over the past three years, Rublin finds regular and frequent contributors who are self-identified neo-Nazis or white supremacists posting the most blatant and obscene anti-Semitic material:

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