.SINCE HAMAS'S terrorist strike on Israel on Oct 7th, and the outbreak of war in Gaza, there has been a sharp boost all over the world in records of antisemitic cases. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an NGO based in Nyc Urban area, states that in the 2 weeks after the strike the number in America quintupled compared with the exact same time period in 2013. Britain and France have actually disclosed similar spikes. Social media have magnified the issue. On X, formerly Twitter, antisemitic posts escalated through an impressive 919% the week after Hamas's attack, compared with a week earlier, as evaluated by the ADL. (Islamophobic posts likewise enhanced.) Several large companies, including Apple as well as Disney, put on hold advertising and marketing on X after a file through Media Matters for America, an activist group, found that ads had been positioned alongside antisemitic articles. Elon Musk, who has X, added to the craze when he endorsed an antisemitic blog post that charged "Jewish areas" of "driving ... abhorrence versus whites." He has because apologised.