Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Israeli Tech Experts and Jewish Leaders Advance New Front Against Digital Antisemtism
Meta reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring that its artificial intelligence systems are developed with sensitivity to Jewish community perspectives during a high-level gathering at the Yeshiva University Museum on Tuesday evening, as Jewish communities in Israel and around the world marked Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Speaking during Hack the Hate NYC 2026, a global initiative by the 8200 Alumni Association and Generative AI for Good, Ben Good, Meta’s Public Policy Director, addressed the company’s approach to the rise of antisemitism online, including Holocaust denial and distortion promoted by users across digital platforms, and emphasized the responsibility of the tech industry to ensure that new systems such as Meta’s own Llama are developed with a deeper awareness of how anti-Jewish hatred manifests in the digital sphere.
“Meta is firmly committed to combatting antisemitism on our platforms, and we are optimistic about the promises of new technologies that we can deploy in that fight,” stated Good during a fireside chat with WJC TecHRi Executive Director Yfat Barak-Cheney.
Prior to Good’s remarks, Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University, welcomed an audience of more than 150 participants and underscored the importance of bringing Jewish communal leadership, academic institutions, and emerging innovators together to ensure that Jewish voices contribute meaningfully to some of the most consequential conversations shaping the future.
“Yeshiva University is proud to participate again this year in Hack the Hate 2026 NYC. At a moment when division and antisemitism persist, this initiative affirms our shared responsibility to confront hatred with courage, creativity, and moral clarity," said he said.
Organized by Generative AI for Good and the 8200 Alumni Association in partnership among the Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, Geshser Israel, Maccabee Ventures, President Isaac Herzog’s Voice of the People initiative, the World Jewish Congress’s TecHRI, and Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business, the presentations throughout the evening focused on how emerging technologies can be used not only to identify and counter online hate, Holocaust denial, and distortion of the October 7th attacks, but also to ensure that new AI systems are trained on more accurate and representative understandings of Jewish life, identity, and history.
Participants emphasized the need to move beyond reactive moderation and instead help shape the systems, platforms, and datasets that will influence public understanding of nuanced issues for years to come. Among them were members of President Herzog's Voice of the People initiative, who presented projects developed at the intersection of technology and Jewish identity.
Chen Shmilo, former CEO of the 8200 Alumni Association, and Shiran Mlamedovsky-Somech, founder and CEO of Generative AI for Good, announced the creation of the One Signal Collective, an innovation community aimed at connecting Israeli technological expertise with the lived experience and practical needs of Diaspora Jewish communities. The initiative is intended to establish an ongoing framework through which entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors can collaborate on deep-tech responses to online antisemitism, including Holocaust denial in large language models, cross-platform incitement, and other emerging forms of digitally amplified hate.
Mlamedovsky-Somech presented Hearing Their Voices (theirvoices.ai), a responsible AI platform enabling survivors of conflict-related sexual violence to testify publicly without revealing their identities. Winner of the inaugural SIMA AI Impact Award, the platform counters Holocaust Inversion by placing Israel's testimony alongside Syria, Iraq, and Iran, transforming isolated denial into a documented cross-regional pattern.
Among the highlights of the evening was the launch of One Five Seven (157), a new initiative presented by Dr. Maya Ackerman and Hannah Geller, as part of the Voice of the People initiative. Designed to embed accurate, diverse, and positive Jewish representation into AI systems, the initiative seeks to reduce antisemitic bias and equip institutions to engage responsibly with the opportunities and risks of the AI era. Taking its name from the world’s approximately 15.7 million Jews, the project is rooted in the conviction that as artificial intelligence increasingly shapes how societies understand identity and history, Jewish communities must help ensure that those systems learn from truthful, representative, and dignified source material.
Ofer Familier, Co-Founder and CEO of dig, demonstrated how AI tools can identify the evolution of viral hate narratives, expose bot-driven amplification, and map the emotional triggers that allow antisemitic conspiracies to spread rapidly and at scale online. His presentation focused on the ways in which a false and inflammatory narrative accusing Jews of involvement in the murder of Charlie Kirk was able to gain traction online, illustrating how AI-powered analysis can help detect when fringe accusations begin to mutate into broader, more dangerous campaigns of incitement. By tracing how such narratives are emotionally engineered, artificially amplified, and adapted for virality, Familier highlighted the urgent need for tools capable of intervening before digital blood libels harden into mainstream discourse.
Across the evening’s discussions, speakers returned to their shared concern that the systems being built today will increasingly shape how future generations understand Jews, Jewish history, and the Holocaust, and that this demands earlier, more deliberate engagement from Jewish communities and their partners. Together, the discussions and announcements reflected a growing consensus among participants that confronting antisemitism in the digital age requires not only moral clarity, but also technological sophistication, stronger partnerships, and earlier intervention in the systems shaping online discourse.
