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Template:Icu The Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF) is an online organization that seeks to remove content it regards as antisemitic and promoting "violence and Islamic terrorism." The group has focused its attention specifically on Facebook, YouTube, Google Earth, and Misplaced Pages.
Facebook campaigns
The JIDF created a Facebook group entitled, "FACEBOOK: Why do you aid and abet terrorist organizations?", where it mobilized its members to report to Facebook administrators the existence of groups which they accused of violating Facebook's terms of use. Over 100 of these groups were subsequently closed.
The JIDF have indicated that they began seizing control of a number of groups, most notably the Facebook group "Israel is not a country! Delist it from Facebook as a country" after Facebook administrators declined to delist them. According to the JIDF, Facebook's inaction came "despite thousands of user complaints over the course of eighteen months". JIDF has described "Israel is not a country! Delist it from Facebook as a country" as "one of the most vile, antisemitic, pro-terrorist sites on the internet" and "the most active hate group of all".
The JIDF are not the first to describe the "Israel is not a country! Delist it from Facebook as a country" group as a hate site.
A report from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and an article in the The Jewish Week had previously described the "Israel is not a country…" group as antisemitic. The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism has highlighted the issue by including a Telegraph article on the topic in its archive. The Anti Defamation League cite the group as an example of antisemitism on Facebook and describe it as "strongly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic" .
See also
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Arab-Israeli conflict and the Internet
- Internet activism
References
- ^ "JIDF Response to Misplaced Pages". Aug 5, 2008.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Jewish Activist Battles For Israel on Facebook". Arutz 7. April 3, 2008.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Facebook: 'Anti-Semitic' group hijacked by Jewish force". The Telegraph. July 31, 2008.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "Jewish Internet Defense Force 'seizes control' of anti-Israel Facebook group". The Jerusalem Post. July 30, 2008.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Oboler, Andre (2008-04-01). "Online Antisemitism 2.0. "Social Antisemitism" on the "Social Web"". Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Retrieved 2008-08-14.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - "Anti-Semitism 2.0 Going Largely Unchallenged". The Jewish Week. February 20, 2008.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help), seen at Zionism On The Web August 16 2008 - "Jewish Internet Defense Force 'seizes control' of anti-Israel Facebook group". The Jerusalem Post. July 30, 2008.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Israel - Facebook: 'Anti-Semitic' group hijacked by Jewish force, archived at The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism,
- Help ADL fight the next generation of online extremism, The ADL, seen August 16 2008 at
External links
- The Jewish Internet Defense Force (Official website)
- The Jewish Internet Defense Force (Facebook group)
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