There has been widespread condemnation of the antisemitism that has followed Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel and the subsequent bombing of Gaza. But the slurs have little to do with Jewish people; instead, they expose Western society as weak, polarised and poisoned by non-stop social media shares and comments, argues Ben Judah

There has been widespread condemnation of the antisemitism that has followed Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel and the subsequent bombing of Gaza. But the slurs have little to do with Jewish people; instead, they expose Western society as weak, polarised and poisoned by non-stop social media shares and comments, argues Ben Judah

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Is this article just three paragraphs? That’s all I see, but the summary at the top refers to things that aren’t in those three paragraphs, and it stops abruptly.

It’s a modern new article, so what? /S

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