Neo-Nazis are celebrating Hamas' deadly attack on Israel with antisemitic paraglider memes
on Oct. 7, some fighters breached the country’s defenses in motorized paragliders. Footage of this assault from the air spread widely with the first reports of war — particularly videos of gliders descending on the Israeli music festival, where 260 attendees were killed and dozens more abducted. In the following days, photos and illustrations of Hamas forces coasting by wing became highly charged, controversial symbols: an emblem of, far-right trolls were appropriating the meme for themselves.
Elsewhere, people are using AI models to create images lionizing the Hamas paragliders. One verified X user generated a picture of a militant swooping in on an unsuspecting man in a yarmulke eating a bagel. In a recentwith instructions for making propaganda with AI software, an anon posted one such effort: an antisemitic caricature of a Jewish man weeping as a squadron of gliders approaches behind him.
“We’ve seen for for several months how these groups are using every tool available to produce new propaganda material,” Koch says of the AI content, including “new images, new videos, even new songs. Or using AI, for example, to translate Hitler’s speeches from German to English. So the use of AI in order to promote hate speech or to incite violence — politically motivated, religiously motivated violence — is nothing surprising, honestly. But in the case of the paraglider, it was new again.
The visual blending of these ideologies, ActiveFence concludes in their report, “is incredibly dangerous, and if left unchecked has the potential to incite real-world violence, as well as decrease user safety online.” So far, it appears as if moderation teams for the mainstream platforms — no doubt struggling with the surge in misinformation unleashed by the violence in the Middle East — haven’t managed to curb this trend.
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