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It’s about fu**ing time: Facebook removes Hamas news page

 

Israeli students sent reports to Facebook complaining against the Shehab News Agency page, with its 2.7 million likes, which shares Hamas’ ideology, posting nonstop anti-Semitic and inciting content depicted in cartoons containing graphic violence.

By Itamar Eichner

 

Facebook removed on Tuesday the page of Hamas’ news agency Shehab, after Israeli students who are a part of a program to fight anti-Semitism reported the page. 

The students received a message from Facebook saying the page, one of the more popular Facebook pages in the Arab world with 2.7 million likes, has been removed because it was found to be containing graphic violence, which violates Facebook’s terms of use.  Continue Reading »