Thread by @marcowenjones

1/ 🧵I just did a quick corpus analysis of 100 New York Times articles published between 1st April - 5th May on US Campus Protests. Findings indicate that the NYT reporting of the campus protests place a large emphasis on equating protests with antisemitism.

2/ A notable finding was that the terms 'antisemitism' & 'antisemitic' appeared around 296 times, while terms such as Islamophobia/c only appeared 9 times. This is a large discrepancy.

3/ Jewish/Jews/Judaism are mentioned 450 times, Muslims/Islam mentioned 72, and Christian/Christianity 7. The second most common collocate (words that appear together often) of the word 'safety' and 'unsafe' is 'Jewish', (the first is students). Other minorities do not appear

4/ The association in the text between absence of safety and 'Jewish' students reflects an emphasis on reporting how protests focus on the experience of Jewish students as opposed to other minorities. While it is problematic to associate Israel - Palestine with Jewish - Muslim

5/ (Palestine and Israel contain ppl of different faiths) we know that both incidents of Islamophobia and Antisemitism have increased since October 7th. In this regard, the NYT has not covered issues of Islamophobia or other minority related harassment to nearly the same extent

9/ We also know that 99% of students protests have been peaceful, and that major incidents of violence have either been led by the police, or pro-Israel gangs (in UCLA). Thus the coverage seems to be out of kilter with the reality on the ground, where Jews, Muslims

10/ and the many from different backgrounds who are anti-genocide are facing violence and harassment. Regardless of religion, those facing the most danger are pro-peace protesters. However, the NYT framing seems to conflate student protests with antisemitism.

11/ * The corpus was generated by searching NYT database on proquest for the terms *campus* + *protests*.

Ok don't know what happened to my number but this thread is 8 tweets not 11.

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