Antisemitic conspiracies, allegations resurface ahead of 25th 9/11 anniversary
CyberWell said scores of recent posts on Meta, Reddit and TikTok revive false claims that Jews or Israel were behind the attacks.
- Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, CyberWell identified a surge of antisemitic conspiracy theories online falsely blaming Jews for the tragedy.
- To evade automated moderation, posts recycle debunked 'Dancing Israelis' theories and pair 9/11 images with the 'Happy Merchant' caricature, while some users employ juice box emojis as coded references to Jews, CyberWell noted.
- According to CyberWell CEO and Founder Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor, the organization has documented similar scapegoating around major events, including the 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting and the 2025 Minneapolis shooting.
- State Department figures indicate Jews accounted for roughly 10% of victims at the World Trade Center, yet platforms struggle with moderation as AI-driven content bypasses safety filters.
- Cohen Montemayor warned that these narratives normalize hatred and can lead to violence, adding that as LLMs rely on social media data, the risk of reproducing such bias increases.
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Antisemitic conspiracies blaming Jews for 9/11 resurface ahead of 25th anniversary, CyberWell warns
Some of the posts used a juice box emoji to subtly refer to the Jewish people in a way that would prevent the post from being flagged by moderation systems, according to CyberWell.
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Antisemitic conspiracies, allegations resurface ahead of 25th 9/11 anniversary
(The Center Square) – A tech non-profit dedicated to tracking anti-semitism online identified a number of resurfaced antisemitic conspiracies ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, such as tropes that Jews are secretly responsible for major world events including the…
For a long time, conspiracy stories made the United States responsible for the 2001 attacks. Today, they focus on Israel and its supposed emissaries.
Antisemitic conspiracy theories abound around 25th anniversary of 9/11
Conspiratorial claims about 9/11 have significantly evolved in the 25 years since the terror attacks of that day, becoming deeply embedded into a broader extremist and antisemitic worldview, propelled by new technologies and embraced by new generations.
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