Google, Facebook to help Israeli colonists combat “cyberhate”?
By Maidhc Ó Cathail
The Passionate Attachment
May 13, 2012
In a May 10 press release, the staunchly pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced it “will convene a new working group on cyberhate that will bring together Internet industry leaders and others to probe the roots of the problem and develop new solutions to address it head-on.”
According to the ADL statement, the establishment of a “Anti-Cyberhate Working Group” was approved by the Task Force on Internet Hate at a May 7 meeting held at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society in Palo Alto, California. The task force was created by the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism (ICCA).
“Internet hate continues to have a global impact on civil society and a transparent process to respond to it will lead to reviewability and consistency,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. “We welcome the commitments of Google and Facebook to participate in this dialogue to combat online hate speech, Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. Working alongside the Internet’s leaders will allow for the development of industry standards that balance effectiveness with respect for the right to free speech.”
The ICCA Task Force is co-chaired by Yuli Edelstein, Israel’s Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs, who is charged with countering antisemitism. A member of Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, Edelstein lives in the illegal West Bank settlement of Neve Daniel, which he sees as part of “Greater Israel.” As far as the Israeli minister is concerned, however, those who dare to nonviolently oppose Israel’s ongoing colonization of Palestinian land are motivated only by hate. According a report in The Electronic Intifada on Edelstein’s anti-Arab racism, he told delegates at a 2009 international conference on “combating antisemitism”:
We must repeat again and again these basic facts – TO BE ‘anti-Israel’ IS TO BE ANTI-SEMITIC. TO BOYCOTT ISRAEL, ISRAELI PROFESSORS and ISRAELI businesses, these are not political acts, these are acts of hate, acts of anti-Semitism! Anti-Israel hysteria is anti-Semitic hysteria. They are one and the same. [Ed: Upper case letters in the transcript]
If this is what is meant by “cyberhate,” perhaps the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement should consider targeting Google and Facebook for their apparent willingness to collaborate in the defense of the Israeli occupation.
funny, they should move to Gaza and reconsider their position maybe eh
thank you for post
carinaragno
May 13, 2012 at 12:03 pm
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Foxman says Google and Facebook are on his team to combat 'internet hate'
May 13, 2012 at 2:35 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_antisemitism
Over the last couple of years, it has dawned on me just how many crackpot ideas are promoted in this world by organized groups of a jewish nature. Whether it be the ‘ Islamization/Londonistan ‘, ‘ New Antisemitism ‘ or ‘ WMD ‘, these ideas are quickly lodged into the realm of mass consciousness through constant repetition and, of course, by targeting the feeble minded as opposed to the clever. The ideas have no logical basis but are instead devised solely on the basis of Jewish/Israeli self-interest.
The reality is that when we talk about Israel, we are talking about organized jewish power. The only way these guys can exercise the clout they currently wield is by deeming people racist for even mentioning it, because if people were not afraid of acknowledging and discussing organized jewish power, it wouldn’t be anywhere near as strong as what it is.
So in essence, it’s a game of bluff. The ADL and their friends will always label any and all discussion of their activities as potentially racist because it has been a very effective strategy in helping them acquire the ability to operate by stealth.
Osiris
May 14, 2012 at 1:33 pm
The word used is always “hate”, as being what the ADL and other such organisation claims it is fighting against. It is never “dislike” or anything which could be though of as signifying a reasonable level of disapproval. Do Jewish people hate their children if they poke their tongues out at a relative they don’t particularly like, or if they use abusive language, swear a lot, or try to do something unseemly to an employee? I very much doubt it. If they have any sense of propriety, they will strongly disapprove of such actions, and voice their disapproval of any kind of anti-social behaviour. But if someone disapproves of the way that Israelis have been treating the Palestinian, for example, that disapproval is always characterised as hatred.
There almost certainly is a rise of real hatred, in some people and it is being caused by the constant lying and deception that organisations like the ADL resorts to, when it wants to suppress the opinions of people who are genuinely concerned about what the Zionist Israelis, largely, a group of overbearing, selfish supremacists, are doing to the Palestinians because they are not “The Chosen People” and should not be occupying any part of “The Promised Land”.
Please watch this video: “Anti-semitic, its a trick we always use it”
As ye sow, so shall ye reap. (Jeremiah 1–19)
Anthony Lawson
May 15, 2012 at 6:26 am