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Antisemitism on X Fuels France Unrest · Israel Today: Ongoing War Report

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Israel Today ongoing war report. I'm Noah Levi.
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  Speaker 1: A recent report by the combat antisemitism movement highlights a
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  Speaker 1: disturbing trend of antisemitic incitement on ex-formerly Twitter following unrest
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  Speaker 1: in France. Between October 16th and 18th, researchers identified 1,384
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  Speaker 1: posts that accused Israel, the Mossad and Jewish people of
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  Speaker 1: being responsible for the riots and destruction. These posts included
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theories, alongside calls for violence, expulsion and even extermination,
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  Speaker 1: spread by influential accounts and reaching millions of views. The
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  Speaker 1: combat antisemitism movement's CEO, Sacha Reutemann, noted this pattern has
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  Speaker 1: appeared four times in under three months, linking it to
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  Speaker 1: major news events and warning that social media platforms may
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  Speaker 1: be incentivising the spread of such hatred. In the West Bank,
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  Speaker 1: security forces are working to counter rising nationalist violence. According
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  Speaker 1: to Waller News, the IDF, Border Police and Israel Police
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  Speaker 1: have increased efforts to combat lawbreakers, evacuating an average of
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  Speaker 1: seven to ten illegal outposts each week. Security officials expressed
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  Speaker 1: concern that current court penalties are insufficient to deter offenders
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  Speaker 1: and prevent the re-establishment of these sites, citing repeated evacuations
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  Speaker 1: and arrests at outposts like Tawana. a senior security official
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  Speaker 1: described the situation as systemic, requiring action beyond the military,
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  Speaker 1: and criticised some rabbis' support for activists involved in harvesting
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  Speaker 1: olives from Palestinian groves, calling some activists Jewish terrorists. Looking
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  Speaker 1: at Israeli domestic politics, ahead of the October 27 election,
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  Speaker 1: online prediction markets are showing movement. On the platform Polimarket,
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  Speaker 1: traders currently favour Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party.
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  Speaker 1: with a 49% chance of becoming Prime Minister, compared to
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  Speaker 1: 31% for incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu. In a separate market, over
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  Speaker 1: $ 124 million has been traded on the question of when
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  Speaker 1: Netanyahu might leave office, with a roughly 38% probability assigned
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  Speaker 1: to him leaving by the end of 2026. Yashar is
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  Speaker 1: also favoured over Likud to win the most seats in
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  Speaker 1: the Knesset, according to these market indicators, though these are
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  Speaker 1: not official polls. For continuing coverage of antisemitism around the world,
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  Speaker 1: listen to Antisemitism, Watch from Clockwork Media. Find it at clockworkmedia.org
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  Speaker 1: slash watch. This has been Israel Today ongoing war report.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Noah Levi. Thank you for listening and stay safe
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  Speaker 1: in mind that this AI-generated report may contain occasional inaccuracies,
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