71 percent of the antisemitic expressions complaints in the year 2015
refer to the internet and almost 80 percent of it was antisemitic expressions took
place in the online version of the most important media outlets, determined
by the annual report, which says in addition that since the year 2011 the
cyberspace “constitutes a preferred environment for this type of
attacks.”
Since 2011, the internet is the preferred sector for attackers to
execute antisemitic discrimination acts, compared to 29 percent who split
between Buenos Aires city (22%), Buenos Aires county (6%) and other counties (1%),
when its assumed that the internet is another geographic variable, specifies
the report of the Jewish communities in Argentina umbrella organization (DAIA).
“Out of the 71 percent of complaints about antisemitic expressions
online, the most common are talkbacks of readers in media outlets portals, 79
percent”, specified Veronica Cosentino, a researcher at CES-DAIA (the social
research center of the umbrella organization for Jewish communities in
Argentina), while publishing the report in the Argentine Foreign Ministry
today.
According to the report, the remaining 21 percent of the complaints
relate to antisemitic acts in social networks (17%) And Web sites (4%).
According to studies recently conducted by UNICEF and by Reuters’s Institute
for press Research, “social networks are a preferred source of information
in younger population, over the television”, while the elderly population
continues to prefer the newspapers, television and other media outlets. The
conclusion is that it is the younger population who makes the widest use of
this type of forums in order to express their opinions.
CES-DAIA report (the social research center of the umbrella organization
for Jewish communities in Argentina) has registered an increase in expressions
of antisemitism on the Internet, as the percentage was 33 percent in 2011 and
later on reached to 41 percent in 2014 and had skyrocketed to 71-percent in
2015.
Marisa Braylan, Director of the social research center of DAIA, proposed
to “act as a society with an antisemitism issues”, that its
prevalence in the cyberspace, where” oversight of any kind is absent”,
is rapidly growing over time.
The document alleges that “in 2015, the Jewish community in
Argentina was hit by a series of events connected with the death, in
mid-January, due to reasons that are still being investigated, of the Federal
Prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was the Prosecutor in charge of investigating
the terrorist bombing at the Office building of the Jewish community in
Argentina (DAIA-AMIA) in the year 1994”.
In 2014, for the first time, the Internet (41%) overcame of Buenos Aires
city (40%), as the sector which recorded the highest rate of Judeophobia
discrimination complaints.
“In 2015, the increase was even greater. 71% of the reported incidents
within the complaints occurred online, while only 22% of the reported incidents
occurred in Buenos Aires city, “adds the report.
According to the document, in 2015, “the largest amount of reported
acts within the complaints has been classified under the category” Middle
East “(25%). However, in relation to 2014 where the rate in this category
was 36%, this is a significant drop.
The report also alleges that “2015 is characterized by an increase
in the category “conspiracies and global domination”(15%) and “nationality”(7%).
