This research used critical discursive psychology to analyse anti-Semitic and Islamophobic discourse on the English Defence League’s (EDL) Facebook page. The discussion by Facebook users began about ‘reopening’ concentration camps, in which to incarcerate Muslims. Facebook users also expressed anti-Semitic discourse such as Holocaust denial, and the idea that Jews ‘could have done more’. The analysis focuses on the reasoning used when expressing this extreme idea, and how this was contested by other Facebook users, through the use of three strategies: (1) the construction of ‘sickness’, (2) Muslims as ‘the new Nazis’, (3) devictimising Jews as victims. This research shows how the EDL used positive aligning with Jews as means to present Muslims as problematic, and how such alignment resulted in the marginalisation of both Jews and Muslims. Findings are considered in terms of how critical discursive psychology can uncover the function of extreme discourse on social media, and the potential implications of hate speech online.

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“你这恶心、扭曲的烂摊子”：在 Facebook 上的伊斯兰恐惧症和反犹太主义讨论中使用论证和推理

这项研究使用批判性话语心理学来分析英国国防联盟 (EDL) Facebook 页面上的反犹太主义和仇视伊斯兰教的话语。Facebook 用户的讨论开始于“重新开放”集中营，在那里监禁穆斯林。Facebook 用户还表达了反犹太主义言论，例如否认大屠杀，以及犹太人“本可以做得更多”的想法。分析侧重于表达这种极端想法时使用的推理，以及其他 Facebook 用户如何通过使用三种策略对此提出异议：（1）“疾病”的构建，（2）穆斯林为“新纳粹” , (3) 将犹太人视为受害者。这项研究显示了 EDL 如何使用与犹太人的积极结盟作为将穆斯林视为有问题的手段，以及这种结盟如何导致犹太人和穆斯林的边缘化。