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Southern, we should be worried about the way that social media is used as weapons instead of instruments of peace, understanding. it is being abused and manipulated. and more troubling, if i may conclude my opening statement, is that we are not talking any more about those big giants like twitter, instagram, youtube, but the new players in the field like tiktok exposing many young children who are very gullible, innocent, manipulated by those messages. regardless of who is right or wrong, the us...

When there was a burning tree near the al—aqsa mosque, and the angle of the video was showing israelis dancing at the burning mosque. israelis were dancing because they were in jerusalem, the mosque was not burning, ti was a tree. but the message, the narrative was israelis are dancing because the mosque is burning. this is the way the video was presented, especially to audiences that are not quite aware of, lets say, fake news and manipulated videos. and instead of showing the suffering and t...

People in the world are not taking my university course on the israeli and reading 300 page books, they will be getting information from a graphic. that carries a great weight of responsibility. lets go back to bella hadid, can you explain for people who dont necessarily know why bella hadid holds so much power? why is this so important and why have we got to a stage where the official israeli twitter account is taking on a supermodel? so, bella hadid as i mentioned is a palestinian american mod...

With a particular side? let me first move from the personal specific stage or dimension to the more general one. speaking about throwing people into the sea, i am living in israel and i live half a kilometre from the beach, so the idea of being thrown into the sea is not very appealing to me. id argue that we should be more concerned about hate speech in general on social media. this conflict isjust one case, we should be looking at other cases on social media. our study two years ago, the virus...

So i think her following is absolutely stupendous, and i think that is why it attracts the attention of the state of israel and the official account. but i think the state of israel in general has not really succeeded in the forum of public diplomacy or what is often called a kind of propaganda, israeli propaganda. and they would like to have those kinds of successes, they have been trying to cultivate their celebrities of their own. but they just dont have the ability to attract the number of f...

Anti—blacks, anti—muslims, anti—gay, so on. it should not isolate to one case. it should be a global war. it should be directed against those companies, it should be involving educational measures, defensive measures, how to educate those tiktok users so that they wont be seduced or manipulated. im not sure we are doing enough. i think it is important to flag that bella hadid did return to social media to say that in her view, what she was chanting in her posts have been pro—palestinian ...

Is very important. you raise an important point because bella hadid has 42 million followers online, that is a bigger audience than many news outlets. sarah, why do you think — many people will be listening to this thinking, "why does the israeli state official twitter account have to get into a ding—dong with a supermodel?" can you come back on the point specifically about what was being chanted and why it was important for the israelis to engage with this? first of all, i saw statistics my...

There is an undertone, possibly, of ethnic cleansing, "from the river to the sea" indicates there may not be a jewish presence between the river. and i can see why israel takes issue with that, which is different to chanting the slogan "free palestine" which does not pre—dispose any political configuration. but i think that bella hadid and many other palestinians have not really interrogated the scholarly nuances of that slogan in depth, and i think it has become kind of a rallying cry for pal...

Showing the suffering and the agony involved in conflicts like that, you just add fuel to the fire. i involved in conflicts like that, you just add fuel to the fire.— just add fuel to the fire. i know ou have just add fuel to the fire. i know you have been _ just add fuel to the fire. i know you have been writing - just add fuel to the fire. i know you have been writing about i just add fuel to the fire. i know. you have been writing about this this week, social media use in particular. what i...

Social media as their sole source of information, and with great power comes great responsibility for these and celebrities. i hope they will use the platform is not only to entertain or to a point but also to educate, because unfortunately many people in the world are not taking my university course in the israeli palace and income figure reading 300 page books, they will be getting information from a graphic. that carries a great weight of responsibility.— carries a great weight of responsib...