I used to explain the tenth example of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism, “Comparing Israel to Nazis or Israeli policy to that of Nazis,” to non-experts in Jew-hatred in the following way, “That would be like accusing a rape victim of being a rapist.” Aside from the historical Soviet roots of this antisemitic comparison between the Jewish State and the Third Reich Nazis, the juxtaposition of calling a victim of rape “a rapist,” the absurdity of blaming a victim for the very violent crime that they were victimized by, would at once provide clarity as to the outlandishness of this claim and also demonstrate why such a claim was deeply offensive, demonizing and, in the case of leveraging this accusation against Jews as a group, often meant to promote bigotry and hostility. I thought that this explanation would make carnal sense to everyone — that it was a sound allegory — until CyberWell delved into the latest online trend of Oct. 7 denial: denying the mass and deliberate use of rape and sexual violence by Hamas and its allies against Israeli women on Oct. 7.

CyberWell’s latest report, released ahead of International Women’s Day, unpacks the online evolution, revisionism and unprecedented exposure of the Oct. 7 rape denial sub-narratives on our most-used social media platforms. Our team of professional online antisemitism and........

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