JERUSALEM, Israel – A number of cyber experts claim the war for Israel’s survival is, literally, in our hands. Our phones are now a major weapon in the battle over which narrative we believe.
As Israeli soldiers are fighting in the terror tunnels deep under Gaza, another war against Israel rages in cyberspace.
Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor launched Cyberwell in 2022 to create a better real-time picture of online anti-Semitism.
October 7th was a turning point.
“Since October 7th, Cyberwell tracked a massive uptake in online anti-Semitism, with a 29,000 percent increase in Arabic tweets saying ‘hashtag Hitler was right,'” Cohen Montemayor stated.
She added, “Post-October 7th, I think something changed and it became very clear that social media platforms are now a matter of national security. They can be exploited by terror organizations and by foreign governments in times of war. This is now happening for Israel, but it could happen to any Western democracy that found itself in a war or under attack by a terrorist organization.”
Hamas documented their atrocities on October 7th, but almost immediately came online denials.
“This conspiracy theory is acting in a very similar way, with a similar purpose, to Holocaust denial. But there’s a really big difference,
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