Synthetic Hate

AI-Enhanced Antisemitism and Online Radicalization
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-33356-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Studies in Contemporary Antisemitism

Synthetic Hate investigates how extremists exploit artificial intelligence to modernize the world’s oldest hatred. Antisemitism - rooted in religious discrimination, medieval blood libels, Nazi propaganda, and contemporary Islamist and far-right conspiracies - has found new life through generative tools that can produce persuasive text, images, audio, and video at scale.

Drawing on documented cases and controlled demonstrations, the book shows how LLMs, deepfakes, bots, and recommendation systems enable cheap, rapid, and adaptive propaganda - memes that evade moderation, fabricated “evidence,” synthetic voices, and narrative laundering that spreads across platforms and into mainstream feeds. The result is not “new” hate, but hate that is faster, more convincing, and harder to police.

Crucially, Synthetic Hate goes beyond diagnosis, and it lays out a practical counterstrategy of technical safeguards, platform accountability and regulation, and education and resilience, so policymakers, researchers, and practitioners can blunt AI-amplified antisemitism and hate without sacrificing democratic values.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Topor, Lev

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Volksglaube & Umstrittenes Wissen
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: A New Digital Blood Libel 2. Old Hatred in New Code 3. AI: Types, Functions, and Vulnerabilities 4. Synthetic Antisemitism: AI-Generated Hate 5. AI, Bots and Incitement 6. Radicalization by Recommendation 7. Online Radicalization Process 8. Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Battles 9. Consulting Hitler; Consulting al-Husayni 10. AI, Holocaust Education and Future Memory 11. Countering the Threat 12. Conclusion: Don’t Let AI Kill the Jews

Über Autor(innen)

Lev Topor is an award-winning author, researcher, and practitioner, focusing on the study of antisemitism and cybersecurity/policy. Dr. Topor also serves as one of the expert delegates to the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance).