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Poster Session 2, 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM: Campus Center Auditorium [A88]

Presenter: Matthew Samuel Goldstein

Faculty Sponsor: Clarissa Codrington

School: Massachusetts Bay Community College

Research Area: Race and Ethnicity Studies

ABSTRACT

Matthew Goldstein 
Massachusetts Bay Community College 

In Washington D.C a jewish couple; Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were outside the Capital Jewish Museum. The couple was leaving an event held by the museum when a man opened fire 21 times on the couple killing both. The shooter while in custody shouted "free, free Palestine." With the rise of anti-semitism it has been important to understand the cause, and to find where the misinformation is coming from. The research uses content analysis across a collective of resources; social media, news articles, and books. To find conspiratorial cognition to interpret patterns. This presentation finds many Intricacies of how anti-zionism has led to a new wave of anti-semitism. That these anti-semitic patterns have existed long and resurface with time. These findings have proven in-group identity and amplified polarization. The case demonstrates how violence can become catalysts for  narratives in digital environments. The study contributes to scholarship on misinformation by illustrating how race and identity function as organizing principles in conspiratorial meaning.