Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Vol 15, No 2: April 2026

A new approach for sentiment and geopolitical stance analysis of Reddit comments on the Israel-Palestine conflict

Upadhye, Gopal D. (Unknown)
Joshi, Hruishikesh (Unknown)
Rajput, Satpalsing Devising (Unknown)
Jadhav, Ranjana S. (Unknown)
Moralwar, Pranav (Unknown)
Muttyalwar, Tejas (Unknown)
Mehendale, Yash (Unknown)
Mane, Siddharth (Unknown)
Mishal, Shivam (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Apr 2026

Abstract

The paper focuses on the persistent conflict between Israel and Palestine. of world discussion, with such sites as Reddit containing a great deal medium for public expression. This study uses natural language processing (NLP) including valence aware dictionary and sentiment reasoner (VADER) for sentimental analysis and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) for topic modelling of geopolitical positions in comments of 400,000 posts belonging to the topics subreddits. A sentiment analysis using VADER shows that negative sentiments observed and indicate that such sentiments prevail throughout fear of aggression, human suffering, and threat. media biases. LDA analysis for topic modelling. The process of LDA reveals such important topics as humanitarian ones. media discourses, polemizing and appeals for calm. Furthermore, the study which divides comments into geopolitical attitudes – support for or yet, Israelis, supporters of Palestine, opponents of both, and neutrals, offering a contingency comprehensive conception of public perspectives. The results emphasize the effectiveness of large-scale. Of the big data pre-processing techniques, NLP can be used to understand geopolitics and its intricate dynamics. educate policy makers, researchers, and media planners.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

EEI

Publisher

Subject

Electrical & Electronics Engineering

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Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (Buletin Teknik Elektro dan Informatika) ISSN: 2089-3191, e-ISSN: 2302-9285 is open to submission from scholars and experts in the wide areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, control, telecommunication and computer engineering from the ...