The Guardian, as part of their “series on the rising global phenomenon of online harassment”, commissioned research into the over 70 million comments left on its site since 2006, and concluded that articles on “Israel/Palestine” generate the highest level of abusive reader comments (The Dark Side of Guardian Comments, April 12).
The relevant graph and accompanying text is shown below. (Note that the red text “Abusive comments about Israel/Palestine” along the top black line was added by UKMW to make the graph clearer. Confirmation that our reading of the graph was correct can be found here.)
These results wouldn’t come as a surpriseto readers of this blog.
Indeed, CiF Watch, the original name of UKMW, was founded largely in response to the problem of antisemitic comments below the line of Guardian articles about Israel. A 57-page report compiled by Jonathan Hoffman submitted to the UK Parliamentary Committee…
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