{"id":582523,"date":"2026-08-12T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/582523\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:38:09","slug":"new-world-jewish-congress-report-81-of-antisemitic-social-media-content-reported-by-jewish-communities-remains-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/582523\/","title":{"rendered":"New World Jewish Congress Report: 81% of Antisemitic Social Media Content Reported by Jewish Communities Remains Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"base-block paragraph-block text-left pl-0\">BRUSSELS, Belgium \u2014 The World<br \/>\nJewish Congress (WJC) issued an urgent call on Wednesday to major social media<br \/>\ncompanies to step up their removal of antisemitic content after <a href=\"https:\/\/wjc-org-website.s3.amazonaws.com\/horizon\/assets\/yx1AY41o\/hope-final-report.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new study<\/a>\u00a0revealed<br \/>\nsignificant gaps in the enforcement of policies intended to protect Jewish<br \/>\ncommunities. Data published by the organization, detailing the responses to 754<br \/>\nreports submitted by Jewish community members across Europe from February 2025<br \/>\nto April of this year, indicates that eighty-one percent of the reported<br \/>\ncontent remained publicly accessible when the dataset was reviewed in May 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"base-block paragraph-block text-left pl-0\">Yfat Barak-Cheney, Executive<br \/>\nDirector of WJC\u2019s Technology and Human Rights Institute (TecHRI), implored<br \/>\nplatforms to act before its too late. \u201cJewish individuals and institutions are<br \/>\nthe target of hate-fueled violence at a higher rate than any other religious or<br \/>\nethnic group. These acts are then glorified and promoted across social media<br \/>\nplatforms.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"base-block paragraph-block text-left pl-0\">\u201cIt is up to companies to<br \/>\nenforce their policies and remove content when it violates existing standards<br \/>\ndesigned to protect vulnerable communities,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"base-block paragraph-block text-left pl-0\">Among the most serious learnings<br \/>\nis that calls to harm Jewish community members continue to remain online<br \/>\ndespite robust reporting and evidence. Of 232 total inciteful posts, (i.e. those<br \/>\nwhich included direct calls to harm to Jewish people) 151 were still accessible<br \/>\nin May 2026. Included in this group are ISIS publications calling for attacks<br \/>\non synagogues and Jewish neighborhoods throughout Europe and the United States,<br \/>\nas well as unambiguous calls to murder Jewish people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"base-block paragraph-block text-left pl-0\">The findings point to a<br \/>\nstructural enforcement failure across major social media platforms:<\/p>\n<p>          81% of reported posts (613 of 754) remained publicly accessible at the time of a liveness check in May 2026.<\/p>\n<p>          Reporting made virtually no measurable difference: 19.5% of content formally flagged to platforms was removed, against 18.2% of content never flagged at all.<\/p>\n<p>          TikTok was the exception, removing 64% of content overall; every other major platform removed less than 15%. Facebook combined the highest reporting rate (76% of posts flagged) with the lowest removal rate (13.9%).<\/p>\n<p>          Israel-related antisemitism was the least enforced category: only 5.2% was removed, and content comparing Israeli policy to Nazism had a zero percent removal rate across 28 reports.<\/p>\n<p>          Approximately six percent of all reports may warrant individual legal examination under EU or member state law, according to a preliminary assessment based on a sample review of the highest-risk categories. This included six shares of an official ISIS publication calling for attacks on synagogues, each reported to Facebook and each still live at the time of the check.<\/p>\n<p class=\"base-block paragraph-block text-left pl-0\">The report, the result of WJC\u2019s<br \/>\nEuropean Commission co-financed HO:PE (Hate Online: Preparedness and<br \/>\nEmpowerment) initiative, constitutes the first systematic, community-sourced<br \/>\ndataset of antisemitic online content collected through a purpose-built<br \/>\nreporting tool across the European Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"base-block paragraph-block text-left pl-0\">Among the WJC\u2019s recommendations are<br \/>\ncalls to platforms to: review whether their policies and enforcement<br \/>\nsufficiently account for antisemitism; demonstrate with data that their<br \/>\nreporting channels are operationally effective; and address content that uses<br \/>\nthe Israel-Palestine conflict as a vehicle for antisemitism. It also calls on<br \/>\nregulators to use their powers under the Digital Services Act to scrutinize<br \/>\nplatform risk mitigation practices, and on national authorities to establish<br \/>\nclear referral pathways for antisemitic content that may constitute a criminal<br \/>\noffence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"base-block paragraph-block text-left pl-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wjc-org-website.s3.amazonaws.com\/horizon\/assets\/yx1AY41o\/hope-final-report.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The full report is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"base-block paragraph-block text-left pl-0\">HO:PE is a project of the WJC<br \/>\nTechnology and Human Rights Institute (TecHRI), co-funded by the European Union<br \/>\nunder the CERV programme. Through the HO:PE reporting tool and a Europe-wide<br \/>\ncapacity-building programme, the initiative has trained Jewish community<br \/>\ndigital contact points across the EU to document, report and respond to online<br \/>\nantisemitism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS, Belgium \u2014 The World Jewish Congress (WJC) issued an urgent call on Wednesday to major social media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,37013],"class_list":["post-582523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-world-jewish-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}