Antisemitism in Reader Comments

Matthias J. Becker is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA) at the Technical University Berlin, Germany where he currently leads the interdisciplinary project “Decoding Antisemitism: An AI-driven Study on Hate Speech and Imagery Online”. He is also Research Fellow at CENTRIC, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) at the University of Haifa and the Vidal Sassoon Center at Hebrew University, Israel. In his studies, he focuses on the pragmalinguistic analysis of hate speech in mainstream society and on the internet.

• Part I: Theoretical Part.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Theory and Method.- Chapter 3: Antisemitism and National Identity in Germany.- Chapter 4: Antisemitism and National Identity in the UK.- Chapter 5: Perception of the Working Definition of Antisemitism (WDA) in German and British Academia.- Chapter 6: Antisemitism and Language.- Part II: Empirical Part.- Chapter 7: Historical Analogies.- Chapter 8: The Nazi Analogy in Die Zeit Reader Comments.- Chapter 9: Explicit Nazi Comparisons.- Chapter 10: Implicit Nazi Comparisons through Omissions.- Chapter 11: Implicit Nazi Comparisons through Onomastic Allusions.- Chapter 12: Implicit Nazi Comparisons through Open Allusions.- Chapter 13: Conclusion on Die Zeit comments Section.- Chapter 14: Empire and Colonialism Analogies in The Guardian Reader Comments.- Chapter 15: Implicit Empire Comparisons.- Chapter 16: Comparisons with Colonialism in General.- Chapter 17: Comparisons with Other Historical Colonialism Scenarios.- Chapter 18: Comparisons with the Northern Ireland Conflict.- Chapter 19: Conclusion on The Guardian's comments sections.- Chapter 20: Summary and Outlook.