Antisemitic hate speech targeting journalists on Twitter has dramatically increased in the run up to the US presidential campaign, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The human rights group, which monitors anti-Jewish feeling in the US, said it had established a “task force” to monitor the marked increase in the number of antisemitic tweets directed at journalists over the past year.
In a study, the task force found that the 10 most harassed journalists online were all Jewish, including writers Ben Shapiro, Yair Rosenberg and Bethany Mandel.
By analysing keywords used on social media, it revealed that 2.6 million antisemitic tweets were posted between August 2015 and July 2016.
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