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Effects of media reports about violence by Israeli Defense Forces against Palestinian Civilians on the acceptance of antisemitic protest behavior among people in Germany
Sat, September 6, 9:30 to 10:45am, Deree | Classrooms, DC 603Abstract
Results of the replication of a survey experiment on effects of media reports about use of lethal force by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) against Palestinian civilians on the acceptance of anti-Israel protest behavior will be presented.
In a first survey experiment conducted in May 2023, effects of media reports about the use of armed violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank on attitudes towards anti-Israel protest behavior were analysed. Results showed that violence by the Israeli military significantly increased the acceptance of legal forms of criticism and protest against the Israeli settlement policy in the West Bank. In addition, however, the experimental treatment also increased the acceptance of illegal forms of anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic protest behavior. However, this latter effect on illegal antisemitic protest behavior was almost exclusively observed among respondents only who had already shown traditional antisemitic prejudices before the experimental treatment.
In a second study conducted in September 2024, this first experiment was partially repeated and expanded. The aim of the second experimental study was to examine: 1) Whether the effects of lethal armed violence by the Israeli military with victims among Palestinian civilians on criticism of Israel can still be detected in 2024, after the terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023.
2) Whether the findings of the first experiment are region-specific, i.e. only valid in relation to reports of military violence by the IDF against Palestinian civilians in the (a) West Bank, or whether they can also be demonstrated for reports of lethal military violence by the IDF against Palestinians (b) in the Gaza Strip or (c) at Israel's border with Lebanon.
3) Furthermore, the study will examine whether the moderating effect of traditional anti-Semitic prejudices measured before the experimental treatment, which was found in the first experiment, can be replicated.