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| September 12, 2016
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Facebook cooperates with Israeli officials, removes 95% of terror incitement

 

Israel’s Ministers Shaked & Erdan and representatives from Facebook agreed to form a task force to fight online hate & incitement – but Israel’s option of legislation forcing social networks’ total cooperation is till on table.

By LAHAV HARKOV

 

Facebook cooperates with the authorities the vast majority of the time the government asks the network to remove content inciting to terrorism, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said Monday, shortly after she and Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan met with a senior delegation from the social media giant.

Facebook – Photo: FACEBOOK

According to Shaked, Facebook removed 95 percent of 158 inciting posts, and YouTube, owned by Google, removed 80% of 13 videos, at the government’s request. Continue Reading »

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| September 12, 2016
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Facebook sends officials to meet with Israeli lawmakers about online incitement

 

Delegation arrives due to charges of Facebook’s indifference to online incitement, and both, Israel’s Justice Minister & Internal Security Minister’s plans to propose legislation banning the use of Facebook to advance “terror” and outlawing its incitement on the Internet.

By i24news

 

Facebook reports that its quarterly profit tripled to $1.5 billion as the ranks of people using the leading social network continued to climb, on April 27, 2016

Anti-Semitism and Incitement to violence flourishes on Facebook - Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Anti-Semitism and Incitement to violence flourishes on Facebook – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Israel has slammed Facebook for allowing online incitement it claims leads to terror activities

A delegation of senior Facebook officials have arrived in Israel for a series of meetings with government representatives and civil servants to discuss the issue of incitement on the social media platform, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. Continue Reading »

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| September 9, 2016
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Decade later Mel Gibson tells Glenn Beck, ‘Jewish people stole my Christ movie’

 

After a Gibson representative got involved, GlennBeck.com removed Gibson’s anti-Semitic comments from the website, with an editor’s note stating: “This post has been removed because it inadvertently revealed details of an off the record conversation. We regret the error.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Conservative firebrand and radio talk-show host Glenn Beck revealed on a broadcast last week that during a recent conversation with controversial Hollywood director and actor Mel Gibson, the thespian claimed “Jewish people” had stolen an early copy of The Passion of the Christ movie and used it to attack him before the film’s release.

According to Internet publication The Daily Beast on Thursday, Beck had spoken to Gibson for some 90-minutes following a late August screening of the the latter’s new film, Hacksaw Ridge, which has reportedly garnered rave reviews at the box-office in recent weeks. Continue Reading »

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| July 14, 2016
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German police raid 60 authors of anti-Semitic internet postings

In a nationwide attempt to identify & arrest the sources of hateful, anti-Semitic postings on the internet, police in 14 German states conduct coordinated raids on 60 individuals.

By JTA

 

BERLIN (JTA) — Police in 14 German states reportedly conducted raids on 60 individuals in an attempt to root out the sources of anti-Semitic and other hate postings on the internet.

Facebook – Photo: Thinkstock

According to German news reports, the raids followed months of observing one Facebook group that glorified National Socialism and broke German laws against promoting hate.

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Suspects were accused of posting anti-Semitic, extremist and xenophobic messages, including denial of or relativizing the Holocaust, celebrating aspects of National Socialism and using Nazi symbolism, and calling for attacks on refugees and politicians. Continue Reading »

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| July 2, 2016
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Palestinian Mother Ecstatic Son Murdered Sleeping Jewish Child

 

Mother of Palestinian youth who slaughtered Israeli-American child thanks Allah, urges more Jewish children murdered.

By Israel Today Staff

 

“My son is a hero. He made me proud. My son died as a Martyr defending Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. …Allah willing, all of them will follow this path, all the youth of Palestine. Allah be praised.”

Those were the words of Mohammed Taraireh’s mother to Palestinian media hours after he butchered a 13-year-old Israeli girl, Hallel Yaffe Ariel (pictured). Mohammed was shot and killed by security officials responding to Hallel’s screams.

While Mrs. Taraireh proudly owned her son’s savagery, official Palestinian Authority media suggested the attack might not have taken place, and that Israeli forces killed Mohammed for no reason.

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| May 22, 2016
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WATCH Netanyahu’s speech: Millions of children are taught that Jews are children of apes & pigs

view videoNetanyahu’s speech lamented the moral failure of countries, institutions and leaders by sitting quietly, allowing anti-Jewish sentiments to be disseminated unencumbered throughout the globe.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

Children throughout the Middle East have been brainwashed to believe that Jews are akin to apes and pigs and should be killed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.

‘Hatred against the Jewish people is so routine in the Middle East that many in the West fail to notice it, let alone condemn it,” Netanyahu said.

He delivered a pre-recorded brief address to the fifth annual Jerusalem Post Conference in New York on the danger of verbal and visual incitement against Jews, particularly on the Hamas run Al-Aksa television. Continue Reading »

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| May 15, 2016
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What’s Behind Britain’s Hard Left Turn & Where Its Going

 

Today’s Europe has frightening comparisons with Hitler’s rise to power, as once again, Judeo-Christian foundations are crumbling all about us.

By Charles Gardner

 

We’ve been here before. History is repeating itself and I’m again experiencing that sense of déjà vu that prompted me (just ten days ago) to write about the anti-Semitism row within the British Labour Party in the context of Theodor Herzl’s Zionist campaign, which itself was prompted by anti-Jewish mania.

Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn

As I have contemplated the ongoing controversy, I am reminded with horror of how Hitler’s rise to power seemingly came out of nowhere. Continue Reading »

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| May 11, 2016
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Anti-Semitic performer Dieudonne denied entry after landing in Canada

 

Having been found guilty of violating hate speech laws in France, with a 10,000 euro fine & 2 month suspended jail sentence, Canadian officials barred Dieudonne from entering upon his landing in Montreal.

By ROSIE PERPER

 

Infamous French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala was turned away at the border of Canada upon landing in Montreal, Canadian human rights foundation Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) said Tuesday.

Dieudonne M’bala M’bala. – Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The controversial comic was scheduled to perform 10 shows in Montreal starting Wednesday, and had several other shows planned in Trois-Rivieres and Quebec City.

According to reports, Dieudonne was found guilty of violating hate speech laws in France, and was handed a 10,000 euro fine and two month suspended jail sentence.

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| April 5, 2016
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#BDSfail: 7 more BDS activist lose appeal over racism convictions in French court

 

Top French court upholds punitive ruling in previous criminal case that BDS is illegal discrimination and protesters bound by earlier hate-crime conviction.

By JTA

 

(JTA) A French appeals court upheld the hate-crime convictions of activists who called for a boycott of Israel at a demonstration.

BDS activists protesting (file) – Wikimedia Commons

The ruling delivered last week by the French Cassation Court concerned seven activists whom a criminal appeals court in Caen in southern France slapped with a $1,000 fine each and a conviction for calling for discriminatory acts during the 2010 demonstration outside a supermarket that sold Israeli goods.
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| March 24, 2016
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VIDEO: UK’s PM Cameron tells Labour Party to ‘sort out’ its anti-Semitism

 

WATCH: British Prime Minister Cameron fiercely condemned the growth of anti-Semitism in UK’s Labour party, and turned to face Jeremy Corbyn demanding he take responsibility for his party, that “he should sort it out.”

By Ari Bashar

 

UK Prime Minister David Cameron issued sharp criticism of the Labour party Wednesday, given the large number of members recently exposed making anti-Semitic comments and the party’s unwillingness to take action against them.

In parliament, Mike Freer of the Conservative party asked Cameron if he agrees that all organizations “public and private” should root out anti-Semitism, in a timely statement given the Labour party’s recent association with anti-Semitism. Continue Reading »

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| March 17, 2016
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Manhattan Rabbi reports NYPD disregarded multiple Mezuzah thefts

 

Rabbi Hertz claims that New York police officers were disrespectful & disregarded his complaint of the stolen mezuzah from his Manhattan home, as hardly being property theft.

By Ben Shaul, Shoshana Miskin

 

Jewish organizations in New York have expressed dissatisfaction that the Manhattan Police did not adequately address the complainant that a mezuzah, a scroll inscribed with religious texts mounted on the doorpost, was stolen from a rabbi’s home.

According to Rabbi Tzvi Herschel Hertz, who resides in Manhattan’s Inwood neighborhood, his home is not the first in the area to have their mezuzah torn off its doorpost. Continue Reading »

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| March 14, 2016
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MIT Economics Review Show Renaissance Regions That Didn’t Exile Jews Fair Better Today Financially

A newly published study in MIT’s The Review of Economics & Statistics reveal that Jews, who became Europe’s moneylenders in the 16th century, established the first banks, financed int’l trade, and established letters of credit, all leading to better economies today.

By Ynet

 

Over half a millennium may have passed, but regions that did not expel Jews during the Renaissance era have measurably better economies than those that did.

Jews became moneylenders in the 16th century

Throughout Europe, regions expelled Jewish communities from medieval times and into the Renaissance. In a new study published in MIT’s The Review of Economics and Statistics, Professor Luigi Pascali found that cities that permitted Jewish communities to thrive have GDPs of up to 10 percent higher than those that expelled them. Continue Reading »

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| March 9, 2016
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#BDSfail: Austrian student association rejects BDS, rebukes American & British universities

 

Rejection of BDS by the University of Vienna student group is believed to the first major European student organization opposing all the anti-Semitic & anti-Israel academic initiatives in Europe & the US.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

 

Berlin – Student association at the University of Vienna issued a statement on Wednesday, declaring their opposition to every form of anti-Semitism, including the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement targeting Israel.

Members of the young Jewish community attend a commemoration ceremony for Holocaust victims in front of the synagogue in Vienna [File] – Photo: REUTERS


“As student representatives it is important for us to criticize the academic boycott against Israel, which entirely excludes Israeli academics,” the student council of the University of Vienna said. Continue Reading »

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| February 28, 2016
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Oberlin College Shields Professor Who Blames Israel For 9/11, Charlie Hebdo Attack & ISIS

 

Among the anti-Semitic rants protected by Oberlin College president of its assistant professor Joy Karena, was that Israel & ‘Rothschild-led bankers’ were responsible for the downing of Malaysian airliner over Ukraine in 2014.

By JTA

 

In response to an article revealing that an Oberlin College professor made numerous postings about Jews and Israel to Facebook, the liberal arts college’s president said the college “respects the right of its faculty, students, staff and alumni to express their personal views.”

Screen Shot of Facebook account – The Tower

Marvin Krislov’s statement came after The Tower on Thursday published an article about Joy Karega, an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at the elite Ohio institution. Continue Reading »

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| February 9, 2016
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Ted Nugent accused of promoting anti-Semitic gun control post on Facebook

 

On his Facebook page, famed American rocker Ted Nugent posted photo that blames Jews for advocating gun control legislation.

By JTA

 

Right-wing rocker Ted Nugent came under fire from Jewish groups for an anti-Semitic Facebook post blaming prominent Jews for pushing gun control.

On Monday, Nugent shared a graphic featuring images of 12 Jewish leaders — including former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer — branded with Israeli-flag images, below the words: “So who is really behind gun control?”

Ted Nugent reported to Facebook for antisemitic content – Screenshot: IsraelandStuff/PP

Alongside the graphic, which has previously appeared on anti-Semitic websites, Nugent wrote:

“Know these punks. Continue Reading »

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