TEL AVIV – CyberWell, a trusted partner of Meta (Facebook, Instagram and Threads), TikTok and YouTube, and a leading organization in digital compliance solutions for hateful content, identified antisemitic posts on X amid protests and violent unrest in France and anti-government demonstrations in Albania.
The posts promoted contradictory conspiracy theories, blaming Jews for orchestrating protests in France and, separately, for suppressing protests in Albania through their alleged control of the government. Some posts also encouraged attacks on Jewish businesses and called for another Holocaust.
In France, where protests began with high school student walkouts on September 21 before spreading nationwide, posts in English and French accused Jews of orchestrating the unrest. Some used the coded term “dragons célestes” (“celestial dragons”), appropriated from the Japanese manga series One Piece, to portray Jews as a powerful, privileged elite. The posts also promoted conspiracy theories accusing Jews of staging incidents to falsely portray protesters as antisemitic.
Other posts urged protesters to loot Jewish-owned businesses, claiming Jews were robbing France. Amid reports of attacks and vandalism targeting synagogues and Jewish businesses, some posts justified these attacks by blaming Jews for Europe's immigration crisis, while others denied they occurred or claimed they were staged.
In Albania, posts tied to anti-government protests promoted the opposite narrative, alleging that Jews controlled the government and were responsible for suppressing demonstrators. The content included the antisemitic “Happy Merchant” caricature and calls for another Holocaust, including statements suggesting that the “problems of 2026 require the solutions of 1939,” alluding to the Nazi regime’s persecution of Jews.
CyberWell also identified antisemitic posts appearing in threads alongside advertisements promoting X Business, raising concerns about the potential monetization of hateful content on the platform.
“The spread and monetization of conflicting anti-Jewish scapegoating conspiracies online from France to Albania highlight the growing severity of antisemitism as a global problem. Fueled by powerful engagement algorithms and the lack of scalable antisemitism compliance mechanisms on social media platforms, the exploitation of political unrest to normalize hatred toward Jews and, in some cases, incite violence against them is trending across geographic borders,” said CyberWell CEO & Founder Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor.
“Scapegoating narratives are remarkably adaptable, even when that means blaming Jews for opposing roles in either fueling or suppressing civil unrest,” Cohen Montemayor explained. “The details change, but the underlying message remains the same: Jews are to blame.”
“As antisemitic narratives evolve across languages, cultures and current events, platforms must be able to recognize narratives meant to stoke hatred and violence, not just individual words or symbols,” Cohen Montemayor added. “Effective enforcement requires contextual expertise to identify both explicit calls for violence and coded antisemitic content that can evade automated moderation. Without that expertise, platforms risk allowing the same dangerous narratives to spread unchecked.”
CyberWell is an independent, tech-based nonprofit combating the spread of antisemitism online, operating globally. Its AI-powered technologies monitor social media in English and Arabic for content promoting antisemitism, Holocaust denial and incitement to violence against Jews and their allies based on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. Its analysts review and report this content to platform moderators and index verified posts in the first-ever open database of antisemitic social media posts, cataloging it openly for transparency at app.cyberwell.org. Through partnerships, education and real-time alerts, CyberWell partners with social media platforms and digital service companies to help them enforce their policies more effectively, promoting proactive steps against online Jew-hate. For more information, visit: cyberwell.org.
