The Network Contagion Research Institute has discovered evidence that an antisemitic

hashtag, #covid1948, associating the Jewish state with a lethal virus, was trending on twitter
this afternoon (ET), at a rate of nearly 200 times per minute:

This particular trend appears to have produced the most successful hashtag (listed as trending
on Twitter) amidst a large influx of Antisemitic activity on the platform itself in response to the
developing situation in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
Further NCRI analysis determined that the most prolific accounts amplifying #covid1948 were all
self-identified Iranian accounts, a majority created in the same month and year. This is often a
signifier of coordinated inauthentic activity that may even suggest state involvement.

Examples of the use of the hashtag from some of the accounts above and others are below for
context:

A majority of the most prolific amplifiers of #covid1984 were created in April 2020: