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| April 11, 2013
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Facebook Shuts Down Anti-Semitic Page Showing Graphic Holocaust Photos

Example: Photograph of Mass Jewish Grave Is Labeled, ‘Lazy Jews’

By JTA

 

Facebook has removed a page featuring anti-Jewish content, including a photo of murdered Jews in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen with the headline “Lazy Jews.”

graphic face

From the Jewish Daily Forward

In response to a formal complaint by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Mia Garlick, Facebook’s Sydney-based manager of communications and policy, confirmed Saturday that the Jewish memes page was no longer available.

Peter Wertheim, executive director of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, welcomed the removal and said that Facebook’s decision about another 15 such pages about which the council has complained is pending. Continue Reading »

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| April 7, 2013
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Israeli cyber-geniuses hacked anti-Israel hackers

Israeli hackers neutralizes website coordinating cyber attack on Israeli websites.

Anonymous successfully attacked the Education Ministry site.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST.COM STAFF
 

 

Israeli hackers responding to a campaign to launch cyber-attacks on the country’s websites and Facebook accounts by breaking into the server hosting a major anti-Israeli hacking nerve center.

Photo: Screenshot from- http://www.opisrael.com/

The website, OpIsrael.com, which was run by the Anonghost hacking group to help coordinate an online attack on Israel, was taken over by an Israeli hacker calling himself EhIsR. Under the heading “A few forgotten facts,” the hacker posted content such as “Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, 2,000 years before the rise of Islam.”

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| March 31, 2013
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Palestinian imprisoned for clicking ‘like’ on anti-PA facebook page

West Bank man sentenced to 6 months in prison for clicking “like” on a Facebook page that criticized a Palestinian Authority official.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

A Palestinian man who clicked “Like” on a Facebook status criticizing a Palestinian Authority official has been sentenced to six months in prison.

Anas Ismail, 29, of Salfit, near Nablus, was found guilty of “libel and slander.”

Facebook - Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Facebook – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Ismail is the second Palestinian to be imprisoned for Facebook activities in the past few days.

He was sentenced to prison on the same day another PA court in Bethlehem sentenced Palestinian journalist to one year in prison for sharing a photo on Facebook that compared PA President Mahmoud Abbas to a villain and the spy of French colonial authorities in a Syrian drama. Continue Reading »

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| March 10, 2013
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US Embassy’s Facebook Contest is Giving Away 20 Tickets to see Obama

If You Want to hear U.S. President Barack H. Obama speak, live & in person, You may just become 1 of the 20 Israelis chosen for the honor…

By David Lev

 

Want to hear U.S. President Barack H. Obama speak, live and in person? You could be one of 20 Israelis chosen for the honor – with a (practically) front-row seat to Obama’s speech at Binyanei Ha’uma (Israel Convention Center), set to be the centerpiece of his visit to Israel.

Obama

The Israelis will be chosen from among entries on the Facebook page of the U.S. Embassy in Israel, which wants to hear why Israelis think they deserve to have an opportunity to get an “audience” with Obama. Continue Reading »

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| February 4, 2013
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Petition to require Facebook to close anti-Israel page

In violation of Facebook’s own ‘Community Standards’ the “Fuck Israel” page, which has 36,000 “likes” as of Monday, features such sentiments as “God bless Adolf Hitler for what he did,” “Jews are children of apes and pigs … they are baby killers,” and “I hate Israel,” continues to attract the support of anti-Semites.

By JTA

 

LOS ANGELES — A Facebook petition to remove an anti-Israel page that uses an expletive in its name has 75,000 likes, the removal campaign’s creator says.

Fuck Israel

Michael Mendelson of Miami told JTA by telephone that the removal petition against the “Fuck Israel” page has been on Facebook for less than a week; the number of likes is as of Monday. Continue Reading »

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| January 21, 2013
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Facebook apologizes for taking down Arab-Israeli journalist’s page

The problem becomes worse when Facebook itself starts removing material that bothers dictatorships and tyrants.

By JTA

 

JERUSALEM — Facebook apologized to an Israeli –Arab journalist for closing his Facebook account and removing posts.

Facebook-Logo-and-Mark-Zuckerberg

Facebook Logo & Mark-Zuckerberg

Facebook last week closed for 24 hours the account of the Jerusalem Post’s Arab affairs reporter Khaled Abu Toameh, for what it said was “security reasons.” The account was opened one day later with two posts critical of corruption in the Palestinian Authority and in Jordan removed. Toameh had received hate mail and death threats due to the posts, according to the Jerusalem Post. Continue Reading »

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| January 19, 2013
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FACEBOOK VIOLATES ITS OWN PRINCIPLES with Arab Israeli Journalist’s Page

Arab Israeli journalist Khaled abu Toameh told The Jewish Press in a lengthy interview about Facebook’s bizarre treatment of his Facebook page.

Facebook has yet given a word of explanation to abu Toameh, why his page was shut down, parts of it were deleted, and then put back up.

 

 

“Fatah couldn’t stop me, Hamas couldn’t stop me, not even Facebook will stop me from continuing my work,” is what Arab Israeli journalist Khaled abu Toameh told The Jewish Press Tuesday morning, January 15, in a lengthy interview about Facebook’s bizarre treatment of his Facebook page. Continue Reading »

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| January 18, 2013
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Lack of Free Speech in the Arab World & Facebook’s Support

Many Palestinian journalists, and those in the Middle East, are forced to use Facebook to publish what their own media will not accept. But the problem becomes worse when Facebook itself starts removing material that bothers dictatorships and tyrants. One can only hope that the same Facebook employee who “accidentally” removed the article will make the same mistake and and close down the accounts belonging to terrorist organizations and their leaders. It is the duty of Facebook and Western societies to side with those seeking freedom, and not to be complicit in suppressing there voices.

By Khaled Abu Toameh

 

“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. Continue Reading »

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| December 18, 2012
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Israeli embassy’s Facebook page posted Palestinians would ‘lynch’ Jewish, Jesus & Mary

 

Bethlehem, once a thriving town, 80% Christian, dwindled down to a mere 15% due to religious persecution by the ruling Palestinian Muslims.  The mistreatment of Christians and Jews is nothing new. Gaza, Lebanon & Egypt’s demographics reflect the same phenomenon.

The comment was true….just not diplomatic.

Posted by Max Fisher

 

The official Facebook page of Israel’s embassy to Ireland this morning posted, and then abruptly deleted, a provocative message arguing that “hostile Palestinians” would “lynch” Jesus Christ and his mother, Mary, if they lived in today’s Bethlehem. The town of Jesus’s birth is today part of the Palestinian West Bank.

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| September 4, 2012
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Facebook Doesn’t ‘Like’ Nasrallah’s Birthday, Deleted Event-Page

Facebook cancelled an online “event” of Hizbullah leader, Hassan Nasrallah’s 52nd birthday celebration.

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

Facebook cancelled an online “event” on Friday celebrating the fifty-second birthday of Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese media reported.

According to the Assafir newspaper, around 7,000 users had signed up to “attend” the event with 52 apparent Hizbullah supporters writing on the event’s page extending their birthday wishes.

“Congratulations to us that we were born in a Nasrallah’s era,” one supporter wrote, according to Al-Arabiya.  Another, describing himself as a “Hizbullah fighter,” said that, “52 years have passed and Nasrallah has rejected oppression…and stayed as banner of victory.” Continue Reading »

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| August 29, 2012
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Here’s the top 10 Facebook apps from Israel

 

If you can purchase gifts, share referrals, play games, & recognize friends through Facebook, it’s probably due to an Israeli startup. ISRAEL21c brings you the top 10 apps.

When Facebook acquired Israeli facial recognition app maker Face.com for an estimated $100 million in June, it highlighted a growing category of made-in-Israel apps specifically built for the Facebook ecosystem.

Face.com already powered Facebook’s own photo-tagging suggestions functionality, and made two of Facebook’s must-have apps – Photo Finder, which helps people find untagged pictures of themselves and their friends, and Photo Tagger for quickly assigning tags to group photos. Continue Reading »

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| August 19, 2012
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Lebanon reports: Hezbollah page, Removed by Facebook

Facebook blocks Shiite terrorists group’s page along with affiliated Al-Manar TV page, for ‘inciting violence’. In response, Hezbollah relaunches TV station’s smartphone app

Ynetnews

 

Facebook has removed pages created by Hezbollah and its television station, Al-Manar, over incitement to violence, the Daily Star reported Sunday.

The social networking giant thus followed recommendations by the US State Department. The latter included Hezbollah on its list of terror organization in 2004; adding it TV station to the list in 2006.

Zuckerberg. -Photo: AFP

Mark Zuckerberg. – Photo: AFP

“Under our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities we do not allow content that ‘incites violence,'” Frederic Wolens, a Facebook spokesperson, said. Continue Reading »

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| July 19, 2012
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U.S. investigation of Facebook after purchase of Israeli company sparks interest.

Purchasing new hot technology from Israel can spark world & also U.S. government interest. 

By John Roberts

 


The purchase of Israel’s Face.com by Facebook has attracted the attention of the federal government, which has called the social media giant for a hearing on Capitol Hill this week, citing privacy concerns and civil liberties.

For over a year, Facebook has been using the software from Face.com based in Tel Aviv, which helps users in the labeling of photos, with the controversial program that contributes to a database of faces composed of more than 900 million users of the popular network. Since Facebook in June acquired Face.com Continue Reading »

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| June 19, 2012
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Facebook buys Israeli start-up for estimated $100m.

Tel Aviv-based Face.com has developed facial recognition technology for photographs loaded onto websites.

By GLOBES

Facebook Inc. announced Monday that it has acquired Tel-Aviv-based facial-recognition technology company Face.com. No financial details were disclosed but sources believe that the acquisition has been made for about $100 million.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg - Photo: Courtesy

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg - Photo: Courtesy

Face.com, founded in 2007, has developed technology used for facial recognition on photos loaded onto websites and through mobile aplications. The company has released two apps used on Facebook called Photo Finder and Photo Tagger.

In a brief statement, Facebook said the company’s technology “has helped to provide the best photo experience” for people sharing photos over the social netwirk.

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| May 28, 2012
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Facebook reaches rabbinical court

Woman convinces rabbinical court that Facebook correspondence is infidelity

 

A woman who presented the rabbinical court with extremely suggestive correspondence between her husband and other women on Facebook convinced judges that his actions constitute infidelity.

Damning evidence Photo: Reuters

Damning evidence - Photo: Reuters

The court subsequently ruled that the husband must pay damages of NIS 150,000 shekels (roughly $40,000.)

The man and woman, who are both in their 30s, met on a dating website. After some months they decided to turn a new leaf in their lives, get married and raise together their children from previous marriages.

Yet six months after the marriage, the woman discovered that the husband continued to correspond with other women on the dating websites and on Facebook and decided to divorce him. Continue Reading »

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