SENTIMENTS VIA #ABRAHAMACCORDS ON THE UAE AND ISRAEL NORMALIZATION

On 15 September 2020, the UAE normalized relations with Israel, which sparked controversy on Twitter with the #AbrahamAccords. By using Digital Movement Opinion (DMO) and the concept of sentiment analysis, this study aims to determine the sentiment of public opinion that develops on Twitter media related to the normalization of this relationship. This study used a qualitative approach through the use of text mining methods using Natural language Toolkit (NLTK) as a platform in Python to analyze 490 tweets with #AbrahamAccords. The results of the study showed that the sentiment of public opinion that developed on social media Twitter was a positive sentiment with 75% of the 490 tweets. It also showed that views on the relationship between the UAE and Israel on social media Twitter via #AbrahamAccords tend to support this normalization. Some factors that influenced the positive sentiment were the role of the mass media and political actors.