Total Mentions: 7.9K | Individual Accounts: 5.7K | Total Retweets: 4.1K Total Impressions: 19.3M | Total Reach (estimate):~9.88M
The definition of the word “Jew” on Google was temporarily replaced with an antisemitic slur earlier this week. Google claims they “license definitions from third-party dictionary experts and only display offensive definitions by default if they are the main meaning of the term,” yet their failure to moderate this entry caused widespread outrage. Google swiftly took action and fixed their error but some people used the moment to highlight Google’s prior acts of antisemitism through the years.
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“Harry Potter” - Related to criticism of JK Rowling, the author of Harry Potter. With a new Harry Potter video game set to be released soon, many people are pointing out the antisemitism and homophobia in her stories.
“Donald Trump,” “Kanye West,” “Meghan Markle” - Related to conversation around the opinion piece “2022 Is the Year We All Finally Got Tired of Narcissists” from POLITICO. Some people on social media expressed apprehension that Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, is included in this article alongside others who have made antisemitic comments.
“Whoopi Goldberg” - Co-host and moderator of The View.Related to conversation around Goldberg’s statements and apology regarding the Holocaust. See below.
“Merry Christmas,” “open on Christmas,” “celebrate Christmas” - Related to several conversations about how Jews celebrate Christmas.
“Israeli apartheid,” “State of Israel,” “human rights,” “Palestinian people,” “support for the Palestinian,” “#freePalestine,” “#Israel,” “#Palestine” - Related to discussion of Israel - Palestine.
“World War II” - Related to discussion of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as a 97-year-old woman appealing her sentence for her involvement in the Holocaust during World War II.
“attacks on Ukraine” - Related to discussion of Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s criticism of Zelensky for visiting Washington.
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Whoopi Goldberg
Total Mentions: 12.2K | Individual Accounts: 9.1K | Total Retweets: 5.9K Total Impressions: 131.9M | Total Reach (estimate): ~22.2M
Whoopi Goldberg repeated her controversial view that the Holocaust “wasn’t originally” about race in a recent interview with the London Times. Goldberg stated, “Remember who they [Nazis] were killing first. They were not killing racial; they were killing physical. They were killing people they considered to be mentally defective.” Goldberg’s comments received extensive backlash from the Jewish community online, particularly because they followed similar comments Goldberg made about the Holocaust 11 months ago, for which she was suspended from The View. Goldberg apologized for her most recent comments and reiterated that she is still learning more about the Holocaust.
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Washington Post
Total Mentions: 2.6K | Individual Accounts: 1.1K | Total Retweets: 1006 Total Impressions: 2.57M | Total Reach (estimate): ~2.37M
Some people expressed anger at The Washington Post for sharing an article Monday about vaccine hesitancy featuring pictures of Orthodox Jews, even though Jews were barely mentioned in the article, which focused on the resurgence of measles and chickenpox cases in the United States.
