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Formulaic Holocaust references in October 7ᵗʰ memorial posts by U.S. public officials on X

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概要 References to the Holocaust in the mass media and by public officials have long been used in the context of justifying modern-day military aggression or encouraging sympathy
support for Israel. Was t...his also the case when Israel sustained an unprecedented and unexpected attack on October 7ᵗʰ, 2023? In the previous study (Wroblewski, 2025), nearly five hundred news articles containing Hamas in the title and Holocaust in the body of the text were extracted using the NOW corpus, and subsequent queries seemed to present a narrative in which Jewish victims of the October 7ᵗʰ assault endured an atrocity not experienced since World War II. In particular, the most frequent collocate was since (“since the Holocaust”), closely preceded by “Jews,” “the Jewish people” or an analogous term in almost every instance — possibly suggesting coordinated messaging. The present study searched for since the Holocaust in October 7ᵗʰ memorial posts on X (formerly known as Twitter) from American public officials to characterize the target phrase’s immediate contexts and ascertain any similarities between them. There were 190 posts total from October 7ᵗʰ, 2024 and October 7ᵗʰ, 2025 that fit the inclusion criteria. Since the Holocaust was positioned near the beginning of the post in every case, and 97% of occurrences functioned as an appositive phrase describing October 7ᵗʰ that adhered exactly to one of two semantic
syntactic patterns, differing only very slightly. Informed speculation could suggest that the formulaic nature of these Holocaust references may have also been intentional, possibly originating from a “form letter” or “template” that was circulated by one or more pro-Israel lobbying groups to politicians, on Capitol Hill in particular.
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目次 1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Results
  3.1 General data
  3.2 Collocations of “since the Holocaust”
  3.3 Semantic
syntactic patterns in references to October 7ᵗʰ containing since the Holocaust
4. Discussion
  4.1 Government positions represented and their party affiliations
  4.2 Positioning of the target phrase within the post
  4.3 Formulaic semantic and syntactic features
  4.4 Limitations and Future Research
5. Conclusion
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