Lev Topor, at The Blogs

Aug 13, 2024, 7:13 PM

AI-Generated Image of the Antisemitic "Happy Merchant" Image

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized many fields, from healthcare to entertainment. However, alongside its positive contributions, AI has also been harnessed for more sinister purposes, particularly in the realm of online hate speech and antisemitism. One...

Jul 18, 2024, 11:14 PM

Terrorism Denial: The War On Memory Continues

The phenomenon of terrorism denial, particularly in the context of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, is a multifaceted issue that parallels the denial of other historical atrocities such as the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide. Terrorism...

May 15, 2024, 3:33 PM

Red triangles, bee stings, and Hamas supporters

A cartoon is shared on X, promoting that Israeli soldiers are harmlessly stung by bees. The stings represent red targeting triangles promoted by Hamas.
Source: A Caricature by Mahmoud Abbas, shared on X, @QudsNen

In recent conflicts between Israel and the terror organization Hamas, a new and disturbing tactic has emerged – the use of red triangles by Hamas or other antisemitic anti-Zionist terror organizations to signify Israeli casualties. This symbol, which has...

May 1, 2024, 9:57 PM

Campus Stupidity, Useful Idiots, American Decline

Antisemitic expressions, calls to take action against Jews and pro-Jewish or pro-Israeli students, faculty members and visitors, have raised concerns among Jewish students and mainstream “sane” people in the United States after pro-terrorist movements like the Students for Justice...

Jan 27, 2024, 2:19 PM

Between Auschwitz and Gaza

Auschwitz Birkenau
Free to use under the Unsplash License

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed on 27 of January each year, marking the date of liberation of the largest Nazi concentration camp – Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is internationally observed to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. The Nazis...

Oct 16, 2023, 4:08 PM

Terrorism Denial – Why Hamas Attempts to Deny

Due to the 7/10 terror attack by Palestinian and Hamas terrorists on the people of Israel, I ask to introduce a new term – Terrorism Denial. I believe that understanding this term will help in the global effort against...

Oct 15, 2023, 1:18 PM

7/10 – Pure Antisemitism

The death toll of the 7/10 terrorist attack by Hamas terrorists on Israel is still counting, thousands are dead, more are wounded and hundreds are now held hostage in the Gaza Strip. The dead, wounded and kidnapped include, from...

Aug 13, 2023, 6:28 PM

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The ‘hipardut’ rift would be a national disaster

Bandage on concrete surface crack.(Unsplash)

Separating secular and religious Jews into different countries would undermine the very essence of Judaism - and the Zionist dream

Jun 1, 2023, 12:56 PM

No Pride [Parade] in the Red-Green Alliance?

Recently, Hamas, the terror organization, has denounced the forthcoming Pride Parade in Jerusalem, calling in its statement for all Palestinians to go to the Parade and confront it in defense of the al-Aqsa Mosque. The terror organization named the...

Apr 18, 2023, 12:11 PM

Contemporary Holocaust Denial: Types and Trends

The Holocaust is not over. That is, the Holocaust was over in 1945, the allies won, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and others liberated mainly Jews from Nazi concentration camps. However, nowadays, in the twenty-first century there...

About Me

Dr. Lev Topor is the co-author (w/ Prof. Jonathan Fox) of 'Why Do People Discriminate Against Jews?' Published by Oxford University Press in 2021 and the author of 'Phishing for Nazis: Conspiracies, Anonymous Communications and White Supremacy Networks on the Dark Web' Published by Routledge in 2023. Lev also published 'Cyber Sovereignty - International Security, Mass Communication, and the Future of the Internet' with Springer in 2024. Lev publishes scholarly works and reports on the topic of antisemitism, anti-Zionism, racism, and cyber. Previously, Dr. Topor was a research fellow in ISGAP, at the Woolf Institute (Cambridge), at the CCLP (Haifa University), and at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem (Jerusalem).