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Following the previous day’s massacre at a public Hanukkah celebration in Bondi Beach, Australia, the Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) by CAM conducted snapshot investigation on Monday of conspiracy theories being spread online about the attack.
At approximately 3:00 PM ET on Monday, ARC researchers documented and analyzed the first 30 English-language posts produced by searching “Mossad” — the name of Israel’s national intelligence agency — in the platform’s search function.
The ARC found that 15 of the posts, or 50 percent, propagated the false claim that Israeli agents manipulatively orchestrated the Bondi Beach attack as a “false flag” event to garner support and defame Muslims.
The results, while based on only a small sample, are indicative of a long-existing social media trend that denies Jewish victimhood and blames the Jewish people and state blamed for atrocities they suffer. The phenomenon is rooted in classical tropes positing malign Jewish control of global affairs — an outlandish and baseless notion that has fueled antisemitic hatred for thousands of years, endangering Jewish communities worldwide.
Just in the past seven months, the aftermaths of terror attacks targeting Jews in Manchester, England, Boulder, Colorado, and Washington, D.C., all saw a proliferation of online allegations of Israeli culpability — as was the case following the October 7th attacks in Israel in 2023.
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