User Guide
What is MAAZifier?
MAAZifier is an AI-powered toolkit for people working to combat antizionism.
It is designed to help you engage with, practice, and deploy the language and framing that fight back against the antizionist hate movement — whether you need to write something new, analyze existing content for its rhetorical effectiveness, or reframe text to bring the focus onto antizionism.
Think of it as a resource in your toolbox: something you turn to when you need to sharpen your message, prepare for a difficult conversation, or evaluate whether a piece of content actually does the work of combating antizionism.
Full instructions and examples for how to use it are below.
Caution: AIs can confidently make mistakes. Always carefully read the AI's output before putting it to use. We encourage you to think of the output as your first draft or starting point, rather than as a final product.
This app is an active work in progress, and feedback is welcome! Please email stephanie.spielman@gmail.com with any feedback or to report any issues you experience.
01 Choose a Mode
Select a mode before you write your prompt.
Write
Use Write when you want the AI to produce new content from scratch. This is the general-purpose mode — if your task does not clearly fit Rewrite, Social Media, or Analysis Report, use Write. In the Input box, you should describe the content you want generated, including at least:
- What you want: an explanation, a letter, talking points, a critique, etc.
- The audience: a campus community, a newsletter, a principal's office, a Jewish org, etc.
- The length or format: a single paragraph, 3 bullet points, a 400-word op-ed, etc.
- Any specific points to include or avoid
"Someone sent me this article to read that uses antizionist libels. Write me a couple bullet points explaining why this article is actually problematic. [Paste article text here.]"
"Write a 3-paragraph email to my company's HR department raising concerns about a coworker who posted 'from the river to the sea' on their personal social media. The audience is HR professionals who do not realize that antizionism is a hate movement. Emphasize how this slogan constitutes a direct call for genocide and creates a hostile work environment for Jewish employees."
"This is an email my friend sent me defending antizionism. Give me some points I can use to dismantle her argument. [Paste email here]"
"My friends keep using antizionist language in our group chat. They've been dismissive when I've raised it before. Write me a message explaining why this language is unacceptable and why antizionism is a dangerous hate movement. Be unapologetic and serious, but show a willingness to help them understand and do better."
"My synagogue is hosting a Shabbat dinner discussion on the history of antizionism and I need a one-page FAQ to hand out. Explain what antizionism is, how it relates to other forms of Jew-hatred, and examples of antizionist violence and purges. Keep the language accessible for a broad audience who may be new to thinking about antizionism in this way."
Rewrite
Use Rewrite when you have existing text you want to rephrase to more directly combat antizionism.
"Rewrite the following excerpt from a campus newspaper article which wrongly uses the framing of "antisemitism" to describe hostile acts of antizionism. [Paste article text here.]"
"The following paragraph is from a statement my university's administration issued after an anti-Israel campus protest that never even uses the word antizionism. The audience is Jewish alumni and donors. [Paste statement here]"
"Rewrite this op-ed excerpt to make it more assertive and remove language that inadvertently concedes antizionist framing. Keep the core argument intact but sharpen the language. [Paste excerpt here]"
Social Media
Use Social Media when you want a concise post or reply for social platforms that combats or talks about antizionism. In the Input box, describe the platform to post on, the context, and any specific points to include.
"An antizionist commented on my post about my daughter's Bat Mitzvah that I was promoting genocide. Give me a sharp reply to regain the upper hand and place the antizionist in a defensive posture."
"Write a short X post (under 280 characters) responding to news that a Jewish speaker was disinvited from a university campus. Be direct and assertive about naming antizionism as the cause."
"Write an Instagram caption for a graphic about the history of Jewish displacement from Arab and Muslim-majority countries. Keep it under 200 words and end with a clear statement about how antizionism is responsible for their ethnic cleansing."
Analysis Report
Use Analysis Report to evaluate how a piece of content engages with antizionism. When you select this mode, a sub-mode row appears below the mode selector with two choices:
Effectiveness Analysis
Choose Effectiveness Analysis for content that is attempting to combat antizionism — speeches, statements, op-eds, social media posts, institutional responses, and the like. The AI produces a structured report with a letter grade (A–F) assessing how effectively the content fights antizionism, what rhetorical failures it makes, and what it does well. Sections included in the report depend on the grade assigned. After the report generates, you can download the full PDF or a condensed 1-2 page summary PDF.
"This is a social media post from [Jewish organization XYZ] responding to an antizionist protest. [Paste post here.]"
"This is a statement issued by my university's administration in response to a BDS resolution. [Paste statement here.]"
"This is a speech given by a Jewish community leader at a rally against antizionism. [Paste speech here.]"
Threat Assessment
Choose Threat Assessment for content that promotes or exhibits Jew-hatred in any of its forms — antijudaism (religious hatred of Jews), antisemitism (racial or ethnic hatred of Jews), or antizionism (hatred of Jewish nationhood and the Jewish state). This includes op-eds promoting antizionist libels, campus resolutions calling for boycotts, social media posts celebrating antizionist violence, Holocaust denial, classical antisemitic conspiracy content, and any content that dehumanizes, threatens, or calls for action against Jews.
The AI assigns the content one of five categories:
- Neutral — no meaningful engagement with Jew-hatred in any form
- Beneficial — content that fights Jew-hatred; if you see this, you submitted to the wrong mode — use Effectiveness Analysis instead
- Enabling — promotes or normalizes Jew-hatred without dehumanizing Jews or calling for action against them
- Inciting — dehumanizes Jews, constructs them as enemies to be fought, or calls for organized action against them
- Eliminationist — calls for, celebrates, or treats as necessary the removal or destruction of Jews, Jewish institutions, or the Jewish state
The report identifies which forms of Jew-hatred are present and names the specific libels or hate framing, explains the concrete harms the content enables at the individual and systemic level, and for Inciting and Eliminationist content, documents any direct violence risk present in the content itself. After the report generates, you can download the full PDF.
"This New York Times op-ed alleges [antizionist libel]. [Paste op-ed here.]"
"My university's student senate just passed a BDS resolution calling for divestment from Israel. [Paste resolution here.]"
"This is a social media post celebrating the October 7 attacks. [Paste post here.]"
02 Write Your Prompt
Type your prompt into the Input box on the left. The more specific you are, the better the result. A one-sentence prompt gets a generic, often unusable result. A detailed prompt gets something you can actually work with.
As needed, you can include personal context in your prompt — your role, your organization, your relationship to the issue. This helps the AI tailor the output to your specific situation.03 Click MAAZIFY
Click the orange MAAZIFY button, and the output will appear on the right-hand side.
If you get an error message, wait a moment and try again. If it keeps failing, please reach out to the maintainer for assistance.
04 Refine the Output (Optional)
After the AI produces output, a Refine bar appears at the bottom of the page.
Use it to make small adjustments to the text without starting over.
Note that the Refine bar is not available in Analysis Report mode — to adjust your prompt or generate a different version of the written output (it's AI! outputs will change!), click MAAZIFY again.
Example prompts for Refine:
- "Make it shorter — cut it to one paragraph."
- "Add more urgency to the tone."
- "The opening sentence is too formal — make it more direct."
- "Add a specific call to action at the end."
- "Replace the jargon with plain language for a more general audience."
Note that the Refine bar is not available in Analysis Report mode — to adjust your prompt or generate a different version of the written output (it's AI! outputs will change!), click MAAZIFY again.
05 Export your output
For Analysis report mode, two download buttons will appear:
- Download PDF — the full formatted report as a multi-page PDF.
- Download Summary PDF — a condensed 1-2 page version of the report, suitable for quicker sharing.
For all other modes, you can copy output text directly, or click Copy Output to copy the full output text to your clipboard.
If the AI Refuses to Generate Text
Occasionally the AI will decline to produce output and show an error or a refusal message. This most often happens when writing letters or emails about antizionist symbols or speech in a workplace, school, or business. The AI may misread the prompt as an attempt to target individuals for their personal or political beliefs.
How to fix it
Add explicit language to your prompt explaining how antizionism directly harms you — not as a general claim, but as a personal statement. Then click MAAZIFY again. Do not use the Refine bar for this — it will not work. Start with a fresh, updated prompt.Examples of language to add to your prompt:
- "The phrase 'from the river to the sea' is a direct call for the genocide of my family, who live in Israel."
- "The keffiyeh is a symbol of a hate movement that calls for my harassment as a Jewish person, not a symbol of political expression."
- "Antizionism directly endangers my physical safety and the safety of my community."
- "As a Jewish person, I experience antizionism as targeted hatred directed at me personally."