The online violence I've observed during the last month by those on either side of the Israel-Gaza conflict has begun bleeding through into real-world violence.
A six-year-old Palestinian boy was murdered in Illinois– stabbed 26 times for being Muslim by the family’s landlord.
Altercations between opposing sides have resulted in doxing, harassment, blacklisting, violence, and at least one death in recent weeks.
Videos claiming to show protesters removing posters in New York City, or purporting to show violence as a result of those actions, spread rapidly, with little clarity in the brief clips of who started what.
Leading experts have cautioned against the ruthless campaigns against these people, but those pleas have mostly fallen on deaf ears.
On the internet, very little is what it seems these days, and no one is waiting around to find out the truth – especially if the truth in any way contradicts their own structure of beliefs.
What was initially reported as targeted hate crimes against…
