Syiah's Issue Of Breaking The Warganet's Camp In The Polemic Of Iran's Attack On Israel

Iranians on Friday (19/4) held a number of national rallies to express support for the country's retaliatory attacks on a number of targets in Israel. (Between/Xinhua/Shadati/aa)

JAKARTA The Middle East conflict is entering a new chapter. On April 14, Iran launched missile attacks on a number of points in Israeli territory. However, Tel Aviv claims to be able to block the long-range missile attack thanks to their home defense system.

Iran insists the attack was an attempt to retaliate for the bombing of the Iranian contingent in Damascus, Syria by the Israeli military which killed 13 people.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps said seven of their officers were killed in Israeli airstrikes, including Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, senior commander of the Quds special unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard operating abroad and his deputy, Brigadier General Mohammad Hadi Haji-Rahimi.

The military action carried out by the Islamic Republic was quite surprising, including the Indonesian people who have special attention to the issues of war and politics of the Middle East. As a country that has a large Muslim population, the solidarity movement against Israeli occupation thrives in Indonesia. Solidarity is of course aimed at the Palestinian people as the target of the occupation.

However, the conflict with Iran brings a different dimension for the solidarity of the Indonesian people. Although the country that adheres to Islam in its government, the schools held in Iran are different from the majority of Muslims in Indonesia. Iran adheres to Shia's view, while most Muslims here are Sunni.

This kind of conflict landing is clearly illustrated on social media timelines. Netray Media Monitoring monitors netizens' uploads on channel X to capture the discussion or public opinion.

In total, monitoring of the topic of Iranian attacks resulted in a volume of 23,429 uploads of conversation, according to Netray's monitoring.

The public interest in responding to this issue was observed to be quite high, namely bringing in 751.2 thousand impressions in a large way, reposting, and favorites. With this high response, conversations and uploads that contain potential keywords can reach up to 180.3 million Indonesian-language X accounts.

Despite the intensity and volume of the conversation, discussions about the keywords were also colored by differences in sentiment from netizens. This sentiment can be interpreted as a point of view to the position of the establishment of netizens when they see the issue of Israeli attacks.

In an effort to harmonize sentiment, Netray assumed that the post was positive as a post supporting Iran's military action and attacking Israel. On the other hand, negatively indexed posts were those who denounced the attack.

In the Top Accounts chart with positive sentiment, Netray found several accounts that got the most impressions from his uploads. They include the @RJLetsGo, @kegblgninofah, and @brgsjks accounts.

The @RJLetsGo account created an upload that mentioned a number of positive information. He shared Iranian military strategies such as banning Israeli-related ships from operating in the Persian Gulf from confiscation.

As for neutral sentiment, accounts such as @kidiediejaemin, @numanmazlan, and @superbeyinsiz are in the Top Account ranks. Unlike other sentiments, this upload with neutral sentiment is monitored to tend to contain informative content instead of bringing down justification for Iran's attack on Israel.

As for negative sentiment, the accounts that reap the most impression include the @JatIkhwan, @SoftWarNews, and @erlanishere accounts.

Narratives about Shia's flow are barely manifested vulgarly on the X line. Netray did not find the word in the list of words most often used by netizens for all categories of sentiment.

Syiah said that only when the list was specifically for uploads with negative sentiment. But what's interesting, not all uploads with negative sentiment are uploads that spread hatred towards the group. Although it can still be found as in the uploads of @SammiSoh and @ProfOnline_id accounts.

Most of the uploads that mention the word Shiite actually become autocritical for the solidarity of the Sunni people to the Palestinian people.

The views of the @manshur_39, @mihrabku, and @maymarmas accounts have been observed to be similar. They were disappointed with the discussion of the'syiah' issue when Iran became the first country to take concrete action against Israel. When most of the Sunni people were only fast in providing support