CyberWell, a nonprofit trusted accomplice of Fb, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and different main social media platforms monitoring and combating on-line antisemitism and Holocaust denial, is warning of a quickly escalating digital development exploiting Holocaust reminiscence to focus on Jews, Israel, and the historic file of the Holocaust. During the last six months and extra just lately for the reason that October ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, antisemitic and anti-Israel customers have flooded social media with phrases like “Gaza Holocaust” and “Gaza Holocaust survivor” have appeared in over 525,000 posts, generated 2.6 million interactions and reached a staggering 552 million customers worldwide. The most recent development which has emerged for the reason that ceasefire’s signing, has been for customers to publish selfies and movies claiming to be survivors of the “Gaza Holocaust.”
Based on CyberWell’s analysis, the time period “Holocaust survivor from Gaza” first emerged on October 10, 2025, the day after the combating stopped. In simply 5 days, it appeared in 3,200 posts, drew 25,000 engagements and reached practically 900,000 customers. Different phrases like “I’m a Holocaust survivor” and “I’m a survivor of an actual Holocaust” additionally surged, with over 20,000 posts and 93,300 engagements between October 10 and 14 alone.
“We’re watching social media customers blatantly trivialize the Holocaust, attempting to equate its victims – the Jewish individuals – with its Nazi perpetrators,” stated CyberWell Founder and CEO Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor. “”This isn’t only a trendy type of classical antisemitism, however a deliberate dehumanization of Jews and a purposeful distortion of the historic file of the Holocaust carried out by the Nazis and their allies towards the Jewish communities of Europe.”
“Within the final two years, now we have seen how social media platforms had been hijacked by Hamas and their supporters, weaponized into an efficient instrument and far-reaching instrument of cognitive warfare. Now the distinctive historic file, industrialized and state-sponsored extermination towards a civilian minority throughout a whole continent is within the crosshairs of this cognitive warfare effort. Along with this development spreading disinformation concerning the file of the conflict towards Hamas in Gaza, this purposeful distortion of historical past erodes the general public understanding of Holocaust reminiscence and foments hatred on a worldwide scale,” she continued.
“Whereas social media platform’s digital insurance policies explicitly prohibit Holocaust denial, this development of misappropriating Holocaust language is falling by means of the cracks and is at the moment being amplified by their engagement algorithms. When left unchecked, these narratives unfold antisemitism and desensitize international audiences to dehumanization,” Cohen Montemayor added.
CyberWell argues that Holocaust symbolism and terminology being abused to vilify Jews and undermine the reminiscence of the Holocaust is a type of antisemitism that wants an up to date Belief & Security framework, rooted in high-integrity information on on-line Jew-hatred, for social media platforms to make the most of.
