YouTube Comment Comparison: Palestine-Related Videos
Joshua Randolph
2026-06-24
- YouTube Comment Comparison
Tool
- Video Metadata
- Scrape Comments
- Comment Summary
- Comment Preview
- Tokenize Comments
- Sentiment Analysis
- Language Complexity
- Hostility Analysis
- Political and Cultural Issue Analysis
- Two-Word Phrase Analysis
- Overall Word Frequency
- Word Clouds
- Brief Results Summary
- Final Comparison Table
- Export Processed Results
- References
YouTube Comment Comparison Tool
This report compares comments from three YouTube videos about the same broad topic: Palestine-related content. The goal is not to take a political side. Instead, this tool compares how different audiences discuss the same issue by looking at comment sentiment, language complexity, hostility, issue mentions, common terms, two-word phrases, and word clouds.
| Video | Url |
|---|---|
| Andrew Callaghan | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvvGbzR2Xek&t=937s |
| Guardian | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjB_MJRlxks |
| Associated Press | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMyyVaiY4V8 |
Video Metadata
| Video | VideoId | Url | Title | Channel | PublishedAt | ViewCount | LikeCount | CommentCount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Callaghan | xvvGbzR2Xek | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvvGbzR2Xek&t=937s | Palestine | Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan | 2026-06-24T15:51:40Z | 1,566,291 | 113,039 | 10,954 |
| Guardian | fjB_MJRlxks | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjB_MJRlxks | LIVE: Palestinians flee Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza City | Associated Press | 2025-09-17T09:13:23Z | 156,272 | 1,046 | 186 |
| Associated Press | nMyyVaiY4V8 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMyyVaiY4V8 | ‘Our Genocide’: How do Israelis feel about the war in Gaza? | On the Ground | The Guardian | 2025-09-16T08:33:05Z | 5,277,396 | 151,157 | 12,534 |
This section identifies the three videos being compared and confirms that the YouTube API successfully retrieved basic video information.
Scrape Comments
Comment Preview
| Video | Comment | LikeCount |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Callaghan | Go to https://ground.news/channel5 to stay fully informed with all sides of every story. Subscribe for 40% off the Vantage plan through my link. |
To see the second installment of our Palestine documentary, our full interview with Louis Thoreau and mu | 660| |Andrew Callaghan |I knew it would happen and here we are. Thank you to you and your team for always keeping it real and spotlighting the issues of the world that often times get misconstrued by the mainstream media. | 0| |Andrew Callaghan |Andrew has more balls than Hasan ever could. He acts like it’s impossible.. Andrew proved its not! | 0| |Associated Press |The most demonic society ever existing in human history. | 0| |Associated Press |No words to say | 0| |Associated Press |You celebrated October 7th! You are paying the price ! 👌👍🫡 | 1| |Guardian |Iam full hope palestine forever have independent | 0| |Guardian |❤❤❤❤❤❤ | 0| |Guardian |Best wishes for peace on earth and goodwill amongst men. 🕊️ | 1|
This preview confirms that the scraped data contains real viewer comments from each selected video.
Tokenize Comments
The comments were split into individual words, and common stop words were removed so the analysis focuses on more meaningful terms.
Sentiment Analysis
| Video | AverageSentiment | PositiveWordTotal | NegativeWordTotal | PositiveComments | NegativeComments | NeutralComments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Callaghan | -0.41 | 42 | 83 | 19 | 37 | 44 |
| Associated Press | -0.75 | 33 | 108 | 10 | 54 | 36 |
| Guardian | -0.23 | 33 | 56 | 15 | 19 | 66 |
This section compares the general emotional tone of each comment section. Higher scores suggest more positive words, while lower scores suggest more negative words.
Language Complexity
| Video | AverageWordsPerComment | AverageWordLength | AverageLongWordShare | AverageLexicalDiversity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Callaghan | 17.11 | 4.66 | 0.191 | 0.947 |
| Associated Press | 18.82 | 4.78 | 0.246 | 0.923 |
| Guardian | 13.17 | 4.46 | 0.200 | 0.878 |
This section compares whether the comments are short reactions or longer, more detailed responses.
Hostility Analysis
| Video | TotalHostileWords | CommentsWithHostility | AverageHostilityRate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Callaghan | 14 | 13 | 0.0111 |
| Associated Press | 19 | 13 | 0.0187 |
| Guardian | 6 | 5 | 0.0046 |
This section gives a rough measure of aggressive or hostile language in each comment section.
Political and Cultural Issue Analysis
This section measures issue mentions, not political alignment. The goal is to compare which topics appear most often in each comment section.
| Video | Issue | TotalIssueTerms | SingleWordTerms | PhraseTerms | CommentsMentioningIssue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Callaghan | IsraelPalestine | 80 | 73 | 7 | 42 |
| Andrew Callaghan | WarForeignPolicy | 35 | 34 | 1 | 27 |
| Andrew Callaghan | MediaInformation | 25 | 23 | 2 | 15 |
| Andrew Callaghan | ReligionValues | 10 | 10 | 0 | 6 |
| Andrew Callaghan | ImmigrationBorders | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Andrew Callaghan | CrimePolicing | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Andrew Callaghan | FreeSpeechCensorship | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Andrew Callaghan | RaceIdentityCulture | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Andrew Callaghan | ClimateEnergy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Andrew Callaghan | HealthcareWelfare | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Andrew Callaghan | TechnologyPlatforms | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Andrew Callaghan | EconomyInequality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Andrew Callaghan | GovernmentCorruption | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Associated Press | IsraelPalestine | 114 | 107 | 7 | 46 |
| Associated Press | WarForeignPolicy | 51 | 50 | 1 | 32 |
| Associated Press | GovernmentCorruption | 7 | 7 | 0 | 6 |
| Associated Press | MediaInformation | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 |
| Associated Press | CrimePolicing | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Associated Press | RaceIdentityCulture | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Associated Press | FreeSpeechCensorship | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Associated Press | HealthcareWelfare | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Associated Press | ReligionValues | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Associated Press | TechnologyPlatforms | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Associated Press | EconomyInequality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Associated Press | ImmigrationBorders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Associated Press | ClimateEnergy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Guardian | IsraelPalestine | 116 | 102 | 14 | 47 |
| Guardian | WarForeignPolicy | 52 | 52 | 0 | 36 |
| Guardian | MediaInformation | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Guardian | GovernmentCorruption | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Guardian | FreeSpeechCensorship | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Guardian | EconomyInequality | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Guardian | CrimePolicing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Guardian | ClimateEnergy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Guardian | RaceIdentityCulture | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Guardian | HealthcareWelfare | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Guardian | ReligionValues | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Guardian | TechnologyPlatforms | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Guardian | ImmigrationBorders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
This section identifies which political and cultural topics appeared most often in the comments without labeling the audience as right or left.
Two-Word Phrase Analysis
| Rank | AndrewCallaghan | Guardian | AssociatedPress |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | free palestine (5) | free palestine (4) | october 7th (7) |
| 2 | louis theroux (2) | gaza city (3) | 7th happened (2) |
| 3 | mainstream media (2) | human rights (3) | health ministry (2) |
| 4 | shadow banned (2) | ethnic cleansing (2) | sick sick (2) |
| 5 | terror attack (2) | forces it’s (2) | 1,200 february (1) |
| 6 | 1.5m views (1) | free free (2) | 10,000 palestinian (1) |
| 7 | 12.8v dual (1) | human shields (2) | 193 arabs (1) |
| 8 | 21st century (1) | indigenous people (2) | 3,412 israel’s (1) |
| 9 | 2357 bulb (1) | it’s disgusting (2) | 3,412 people (1) |
| 10 | abusers tale (1) | it’s occupation (2) | 7th attack (1) |
The two-word phrases show repeated ideas and talking points in each video’s comment section.
Overall Word Frequency
| Rank | AndrewCallaghan | Guardian | AssociatedPress |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | andrew (18) | it’s (21) | israel (20) |
| 2 | palestine (15) | israel (20) | people (17) |
| 3 | israel (9) | free (12) | genocide (15) |
| 4 | free (7) | palestine (12) | gaza (12) |
| 5 | people (6) | people (11) | october (12) |
| 6 | channel (5) | war (9) | israeli (11) |
| 7 | life (5) | genocide (8) | 7th (10) |
| 8 | crazy (4) | hamas (8) | children (10) |
| 9 | evil (4) | israeli (8) | hamas (10) |
| 10 | genocide (4) | gaza (7) | palestinians (9) |
| 11 | israeli (4) | october (7) | lot (8) |
| 12 | i’m (4) | palestinians (7) | war (8) |
| 13 | jews (4) | human (6) | forget (6) |
| 14 | louis (4) | move (6) | government (6) |
| 15 | news (4) | idf (5) | happened (6) |
This section shows the most repeated individual words in each comment section.
Word Clouds
Guardian
Associated Press
Andrew Callaghan
The word clouds provide a quick visual summary of the most common words in each video’s comments.
Brief Results Summary
| Video | CommentsCollected | average_likes | highest_likes | earliest_comment | latest_comment | AverageSentiment | positive_word_total | negative_word_total | positive_comments | negative_comments | neutral_comments | AverageWordsPerComment | average_word_length | average_long_word_share | average_lexical_diversity | total_hostile_words | CommentsWithHostility | average_hostility_rate | TopWords | TopPhrases | TopIssues |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Callaghan | 100 | 7.26 | 660 | 2026-06-24 | 2026-06-29 | -0.41 | 42 | 83 | 19 | 37 | 44 | 17.11 | 4.66 | 0.191 | 0.947 | 14 | 13 | 0.0111 | andrew, palestine, israel, free, people | free palestine, louis theroux, mainstream media | IsraelPalestine, WarForeignPolicy |
| Guardian | 100 | 5.10 | 50 | 2025-09-17 | 2025-10-21 | -0.23 | 33 | 56 | 15 | 19 | 66 | 13.17 | 4.46 | 0.200 | 0.878 | 6 | 5 | 0.0046 | it’s, israel, free, palestine, people | free palestine, gaza city, human rights | IsraelPalestine, WarForeignPolicy |
| Associated Press | 100 | 0.85 | 5 | 2026-05-23 | 2026-06-29 | -0.75 | 33 | 108 | 10 | 54 | 36 | 18.82 | 4.78 | 0.246 | 0.923 | 19 | 13 | 0.0187 | israel, people, genocide, gaza, october | october 7th, 7th happened, health ministry | IsraelPalestine, WarForeignPolicy |
The analysis shows that the three videos produced different comment patterns around the same broad topic. The most common words and phrases identify repeated discussion points, while the issue analysis shows which political or cultural themes appeared most often. Sentiment and hostility scores provide a rough comparison of tone, but they should be interpreted carefully because dictionary-based text analysis cannot fully understand sarcasm, context, or disagreement.
Final Comparison Table
| Video | CommentsCollected | AverageLikes | HighestLikes | EarliestComment | LatestComment | AverageSentiment | PositiveWordTotal | NegativeWordTotal | PositiveComments | NegativeComments | NeutralComments | AverageWordsPerComment | AverageWordLength | AverageLongWordShare | AverageLexicalDiversity | TotalHostileWords | CommentsWithHostility | AverageHostilityRate | TotalIssueTerms | CommentsWithAnyIssue | TopIssue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Callaghan | 100 | 7.26 | 660 | 2026-06-24 | 2026-06-29 | -0.41 | 42 | 83 | 19 | 37 | 44 | 17.11 | 4.66 | 0.191 | 0.947 | 14 | 13 | 0.0111 | 161 | 56 | IsraelPalestine |
| Guardian | 100 | 5.10 | 50 | 2025-09-17 | 2025-10-21 | -0.23 | 33 | 56 | 15 | 19 | 66 | 13.17 | 4.46 | 0.200 | 0.878 | 6 | 5 | 0.0046 | 186 | 51 | IsraelPalestine |
| Associated Press | 100 | 0.85 | 5 | 2026-05-23 | 2026-06-29 | -0.75 | 33 | 108 | 10 | 54 | 36 | 18.82 | 4.78 | 0.246 | 0.923 | 19 | 13 | 0.0187 | 193 | 53 | IsraelPalestine |
Export Processed Results
References
Google Developers. YouTube Data API v3.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3
Google Developers. CommentThreads: list.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/commentThreads/list
Silge, J., & Robinson, D. Text Mining with R: A Tidy
Approach.
https://www.tidytextmining.com/
This tool uses dictionary-based measures. Sentiment, hostility, and issue mentions should be interpreted as approximate text signals, not perfect measurements of meaning or belief. The goal is to compare how different comment sections discuss the same topic, not to decide which audience or viewpoint is correct.
Comment Summary
This summary shows how many comments were collected from each video and gives a basic sense of engagement through comment likes.