Episode 13: Solidarity Sabbath Season – Highways of Hate

This episode, the fourth in the special Solidarity Sabbath season, takes a deeper look at an area where anti-Semitism, and hate of all forms, is spreading in alarming ways – the internet. Katrina Lantos Swett speaks with Yigal Carmon, President and co-founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). For more than two decades, MEMRI has done ground-breaking work, researching the most disturbing examples of extreme anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in the Arabic-, Farsi- and Urdu-speaking world. While much of MEMRI’s work in the past focused on analysis of media outlets, textbooks, religious sermons and similar kinds of communication, MEMRI is increasingly seeing the internet as the major vector of hate speech against Jews and many other minority groups. This raises vexing questions about who should be held responsible for allowing such hate to spread online unchecked.Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)The Hater Next Door: Online Incitement Against Minorities in AmericaDepartment of Justice’s Review of Section 230 of the Communications Decency ActHard Questions: Who Should Decide What is Hate Speech in an Online Global Community? (Facebook)Trump and Biden both want to revoke Section 230, but for different reasons (Business Insider)