About the series

A consistent monthly read on antisemitism online

Turning the Tide is a monthly threat briefing produced by ISD’s Digital Analysis Unit. Each issue applies the same pipeline to the same question — who is driving antisemitism in the United States online, and how is it changing — so month-to-month movement is measured the same way every time.

Purpose & cadence

The series exists to give a defined group of readers — policymakers, journalists, funders and researchers — a reliable, comparable monthly baseline rather than a stream of one-off alerts. Issues publish monthly and are shared with vetted partners; the underlying data and code are held by ISD.

Each briefing pairs a narrative read of the month’s events with the data behind them, and closes with an appendix of definitions and any collection changes. The evergreen method lives on a standalone Methodology page so issues need only note what changed.

ISD & the Digital Analysis Unit

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is an independent non-profit that researches and counters extremism, disinformation and hate, and online threats to democracy and human rights. ISD works across governments, technology platforms and civil society, with offices in Amman, Berlin, London, Paris, Toronto and Washington DC.

The Digital Analysis Unit is ISD’s data-science team, combining subject-matter expertise in hate and extremism with large-scale social-media collection, classification and analysis. Turning the Tide is authored institutionally by the Unit; individual analysts are not named.

How each issue is produced
01
Collect
~1,000 keywords across 30+ platforms and forums.
02
Classify
An LLM classifier grounded in the IHRA definition (F1 0.87).
03
Typologise
Persistent accounts sorted into six ideological communities.
04
Map
Clusters relabelled into 12 broad narratives.
Full methodology →
Citation & press guidance

Findings may be cited and quoted with attribution to ISD, Turning the Tide on Antisemitism, naming the issue month (e.g. “ISD, Turning the Tide on Antisemitism, May 2026”). Charts may be reproduced with the “Illustrative data” and source caption intact.

Because the briefing quotes documented hateful content for analysis, please preserve the surrounding context and content advisories when reproducing examples. For interviews, embargoed access to forthcoming issues, or underlying figures, contact the press team below.

All post-level examples in the published briefing are illustrative reconstructions presented for analysis; ISD does not amplify live hateful accounts.
Contact
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Media

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General

About ISD and the Digital Analysis Unit.

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