Communications

“There are calls for revenge on social media now, and from here starts the need to thwart the next terror attack,” said Orit Perlov, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) who specializes in Palestinian social media.... Perlov told The Times of Israel that a diplomatic crisis as a result of the incident could be solved, in time, but the...

Orit Perlov, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies and an expert on social media and discourse in the Arab world, has identified a trend of "unifying forces and zones," both geographically (the Negev, east Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and inside the Green Line) and organizationally (between the various terrorist groups), all under the direction by two...

Experten, die sich mit der palästinensischen Gesellschaft befassen, überrascht das nicht: "Die Palästinensische Autonomiebehörde (PA) hat eine psychologische Infrastruktur des Hasses geschaffen, die die Menschen nun motiviert", sagt Kobi Michael, Forscher am Institut für Nationale Sicherheitsstudien in Tel Aviv, der "Welt". Seit Jahren verbreiten...

Since the start of Operation Protective Edge, Perlov has increased her presence on the networks in Egypt and Gaza. That way she manages to gain insights and interesting assessments of how Hamas is conducting itself, many of them different from those expounded by experts and pundits in the Israeli media. 

 “We Israelis love talking about peace, but we’re less interested in what goes on with others. On April 11, I spoke at a policy conference of senior Labor Party figures, and I asked them why they keep running off to Europe to meet with Palestinians, when they could be talking to them every day on the social media networks.” This insight was provided by...