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Antisemitism in Reader Comments

Analogies for Reckoning with the Past

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Authors:
  1. Matthias J. Becker

    1. Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  • Presents a corpus linguistic analysis of more than 6,000 readers' comments
  • Examines how readers compare contemporary Israel to Nazi Germany and colonial Britain
  • Places these analyses against the backdrop of renationalisation in Western Europe

Part of the book series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (PSDS)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Theoretical Part

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 3-31

    3. Theory and Method

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 33-68

    4. Antisemitism and National Identity in Germany

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 69-101

    5. Antisemitism and National Identity in the UK

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 103-138

    6. Perception of the Working Definition of Antisemitism (WDA) in German and British Academia

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 139-151

    7. Antisemitism and Language

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 153-193

  3. Empirical Part

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
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    2. Historical Analogies

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 197-213

    3. The Nazi Analogy in Die Zeit Reader Comments

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 215-217

    4. Explicit Nazi Comparisons

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 219-220

    5. Implicit Nazi Comparisons Through Omissions

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 221-247

    6. Implicit Nazi Comparisons Through Onomastic Allusions

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 249-283

    7. Implicit Nazi Comparisons Through Open Allusions

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 285-299

    8. Conclusion on Die Zeit Comments Sections

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 301-306

    9. Empire and Colonialism Analogies in The Guardian Reader Comments

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 307-317

    10. Implicit Empire Comparisons

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 319-343

    11. Comparisons with Colonialism in General

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 345-362

    12. Comparisons with Other Historical Colonialism Scenarios

      • Matthias J. Becker
      Pages 363-369
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About this book

This book examines the most frequent form of Jew-hatred: Israel-related antisemitism. After defining this hate ideology in its various manifestations and the role the internet plays in it, the author explores the question of how Israel-related antisemitism is communicated and understood through the language used by readers in below-the-line comments. Drawing on a corpus of over 6,000 comments from traditionally left-wing news outlets The Guardian and Die Zeit, the author examines both implicit and explicit comparisons made between modern-day Israel and both colonial Britain and Nazi Germany. His analyses are placed within the context of resurgent neo-nationalism in both countries, and it is argued that these instances of antisemitism perform a multi-faceted role in absolving guilt, re-writing history, and reinforcing in-group status. This book will be of interest not only to linguistics scholars, but also to academics in fields such as internet studies, Jewish studies, hate speech and antisemitism. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Matthias J. Becker

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Antisemitism in Reader Comments

  • Book Subtitle: Analogies for Reckoning with the Past

  • Authors: Matthias J. Becker

  • Series Title: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70103-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70102-4Published: 29 April 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70105-5Published: 29 April 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70103-1Published: 28 April 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2946-5990

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-6008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 22

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Applied Linguistics, Pragmatics, Judaism, Jewish Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities

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