Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Age of Social Media and Artificial Intelligence

Examines How Social Media and AI Reshape Global Narratives of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict

The Israel–Palestine conflict has long stood at the center of international attention, but in the digital era, it has taken on new dimensions shaped by social media and machine intelligence. Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Age of Social Media and Artificial Intelligence offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary examination of how digital technologies have transformed the ways the conflict is represented, debated, and understood. By tracing the algorithmic amplification of propaganda, the rise of digital resistance movements, and the weaponization of disinformation, this pioneering collection provides an urgent scholarly response to a conflict increasingly mediated through data, platforms, and AI-driven systems of visibility and control.

Editors Innocent Chiluwa and Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak bring together leading and emerging voices from across the humanities, social sciences, and information technology to address the interplay between communication, power, and justice in an age of algorithmic mediation. Through critical analyses of discourse, media structures, and technological infrastructures, the contributors reveal how social media and AI shape perceptions of legitimacy, violence, and victimhood, influencing both public sentiment and policy. Offering fresh frameworks for understanding how digital communication technologies not only reflect but actively construct geopolitical realities, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Age of Social Media and Artificial Intelligence

• Explores how algorithms, bots, and generative AI shape global narratives of war, identity, and resistance
• Offers interdisciplinary perspectives bridging linguistics, media studies, digital sociology, and political communication
• Provides new evidence of how digital propaganda and misinformation influence public perception and policy debates
• Demonstrates how online activism and AI-driven content amplify polarization and shape cultural imaginaries beyond the Middle East
• Introduces innovative methodologies in critical discourse analysis and digital ethnography for studying conflict communication

The first comprehensive study of its kind, The Israel-Palestine Conflict in the Age of Social Media and Artificial Intelligence fills a vital gap in media and conflict scholarship. It is ideal for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, scholars, and researchers in linguistics, media and communication studies, political science, international relations, and conflict and peace studies. It is suitable for courses such as Media and Conflict Communication, Disinformation and Fake News, Algorithmic Media and AI in Communication, and Digital Ethics and Society within MA, MSc, and PhD programs.

INNOCENT CHILUWA is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Media and Communication Studies. He is a Visiting Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Edinburgh.

ANNA SZCZEPANIAK-KOZAK is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.