Overview
- The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism says activists have shared official materials from Hamas and other designated groups on Telegram, X, and Instagram since Oct. 7, 2023.
- Researchers describe a pipeline in which content from terror organizations is translated into English by intermediary channels such as Resistance News Network and then pushed onto mainstream platforms.
- Documented examples include flyers and posts tied to Hamas distributed or shared by campus and allied groups in New York, Illinois, California, and Virginia, including Barnard, Columbia, John Jay, UIC, UC Davis, Northwestern, and George Mason.
- Cases cited range from a Barnard handout justifying Oct. 7 to SJP-linked Instagram posts using Hamas imagery and messages, with one example noting a George Mason video set to music praising Mohammed Deif.
- Calling the trend a normalization of violent, eliminationist rhetoric, the ADL urges social networks to enforce terrorist-content bans, presses Congress to pass the Stopping Terrorists Online Presence and Holding Accountable Tech Entities Act, and asks colleges to enforce campus rules.