7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media published a new report showing that anti-Palestinian racism and incitement by Israelis on social media has increased by 16 percent in 2020 compared to 2019.

"The results indicated the spread of about 574,000 posts that included violent speech towards Palestinians and Arabs, with 1 out of every 10 posts about Palestinians and Arabs containing violent speech. With 495,000 violent posts published in 2020, an increase of 79,000 posts was visible in comparison to the previous year," added the report.

"The results this year showed that, due to the Corona pandemic, racist discourse towards Palestinians and Arabs increased by 21%, with hate speech constituting 29%, and incitement 7% of these posts," it underlined.

It also highlighted that "The most prominent platforms used to spread racism and incitement during the previous year was Twitter with 61% of all violent posts. This is an increase by more than double compared to 2019. Facebook on the other hand fell to the second place with a rate of 19%, which is a decrease of 20% compared to 2019."