Ifat Maoz

Scrolling Past Suffering: Ethnocentric Media, Distrust, and Humanitarian Responsibility

This study investigates the extent to which Israeli Jews’ exposure to Israeli news coverage through social media platforms and their distrust of Palestinians predict their sense of humanitarian responsibility toward Palestinians, within the context of the 2023–2025 Israel-Hamas war. Our analysis is based on a representative sample of Israeli Jews ( N = 903)