Palestinian Social Media Uprising: Digital Intifada (Part 1)

Leaderless Palestinian youth, inspired by memes encouraging people to “Stab a Jew“ on social media and viral videos glorifying killers as martyrs, are thought to be behind a new wave of violence in Israel and the West Bank. Uncoordinated and spontaneous attacks by individual young Palestinians, mostly under the age of 25, started to occur almost daily from October 2015, with assailants often using a household weapon — a knife, axe, meat cleaver, screwdriver — before being fired upon by nearby Israeli securi