Antisemitic hate speech almost doubles in Italy, according to new report

Antisemitic hate speech has almost doubled in Italy since 2019, according to the latest report by Italian human rights monitor, Vox.

Vox’s latest report focuses on social media and reveals that hate incidents had decreased in number overall but had also become “more radical.” However the report also shows that antisemitic hate speech has increased in absolute terms from 10.01% of the total of negative tweets in 2019 to 18.45% of the total in 2020.

What was “particularly worrying”, stated the report, was “the rising tendency over the years, from 2.2% in 2016” to the current level.

The latest report, which analysed 1,304,537 tweets posted between March and September 2020, also reveals that Jews are second only to women as targets of hate speech.

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