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A social media post by Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) CEO Sacha Roytman in which he compared Israel’s current military campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip to the Allied war effort against Adolf Hitler’s regime eight decades ago has drawn engagement from hundreds of antisemitic responders on X, including many inauthentic accounts promoting an analogy between Zionism and Nazism.
“Urging Israel to hold back against Hamas in Rafah is akin to telling the Allies in 1945 to spare Berlin to preserve Hitler’s regime,” Roytman tweeted on Sunday.
Urging Israel to hold back against Hamas in Rafah is akin to telli
ng the Allies in 1945 to spare Berlin to preserve Hitler’s regime.
— Sacha Roytman (@SachaRoytman) March 24, 2024
A sample of responses to Roytman’s tweet follows:
Except this time YOU’RE the Nazis. (@mayynjm)
Sacha demands more child sacrifices for Molech (@libertymama86)
You are worse than the Nazis.. you are liars, thieves and criminals.. the cancer of the world… (@RaquelC98303138)
You’re the Nazis here though… (@The_VII_KWT)
And stop using poor Jews holocaust anti sem weapon to whitewash , cover up #GazaGenocide. (@ma000111)
The days where you were the victims of the Nazis are in the past. The whole world knows you guys are the Nazis in this story. Your children and grandchildren will be ashamed of you. (@jansetbubu)
Pssst… You’re the bad guys (@MarymoBelfast)
Who is the Hitler!? (@AntiZionistB)
Israel is Hitler’s regime in this scenario. (@birrion)
Another truer analogy would be the Nazis blitzkrieg of the Warsaw ghetto? (@mickde1967)
Zionism is Nazism (@AnvarKhalilov)
An analysis by the Cyabra social threat analysis company identified 14% of the accounts engaging with Roytman’s tweet as inauthentic.
Cyabra also found that a main focus of these fake accounts were attempts to link Zionism and Nazism, with 30% mentioning the term “Nazi” in their posts.
Emmanuel Heymann, SVP Revenue at Cyabra, told CAM, “Amidst the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, a shadow war rages online, where actors deploy armies of bots to manipulate the narrative, seeking to sway public opinion. One of the most insidious narratives propagated by inauthentic accounts responding to the original post of Sacha Roytman on X draws a false parallel between Zionism and Nazism, with an alarming 30% of these digital deceivers mentioning ‘Nazi’ in varying contexts to distort perception.”
“The growing challenge societies face lies in discerning truth amidst this deluge of calculated disinformation,” Heymann concluded.
