אסור, מותר, חובה להשוות: שיח השואה ברשת X בין מחאה למלחמה

The research examined how Holocaust discourse was manifested in Hebrew on the social network X during the first hundred days of protest against judicial reform (Jan.–April 2023), and during the first hundred days following the October 2023 Gaza war (Oct. 2023–Jan. 2024). By combining computational and qualitative research methods, the study retrieved and analyzed 4,673 original tweets and responses from the protest period and 4,348 original tweets and responses from the wartime period. The findings indicate the entrenchment of Holocaust discourse as a deep interpretive framework in Israeli culture, as well as the limitations of this discourse, which we term the “heuristic of trauma.” Use of the Holocaust was prominent throughout both periods, yet there were days when it surged. The Holocaust, which served as a significant interpretative framework during the protests, became a mandatory comparison during the war, leading to the creation of online Holocaust-related neologisms.