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Template:Icu The Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF) is an online organization that tries to remove material from the Internet which its members believe promotes or praises terror and racial hatred, including in particular sites they deem to be anti-Semitic and anti-Israel in nature. The group has focused its attention specifically on Facebook, YouTube, Google Earth, and Misplaced Pages.

Background

Social networking web sites allow users to create content. Often, such content is created without moderation by site administrators because of the large number of users and the large amount of content created by them. Often, other users are quicker to act against content that could be deemed to be contrary to a site's Acceptable Use Policy than the administrators; or such users could inform the administrators about such content before the administrators notice it themselves.

It is possible for groups that promote hate to use social networking sites as a forum to express their views without administrators of those sites noticing it right away.

Activities

The JIDF (which has a name that is similar to the Israeli Defense Force) encourages e-mail campaigns to site administrators to inform them about content which they deem to be objectionable and contrary to that site's acceptable use policies. Its members also join Facebook groups (which are similar to forums) to "take over" that group by means which the JIDF does not specify on their site. They state that such methods do not violate a site's acceptable use policies.

The JIDF created a Facebook group entitled "FACEBOOK: Why do you aid and abet terrorist organizations?", where it organized its members to communicate with Facebook administrators about a number of Facebook groups which they accused of violating Facebook's terms of use, successfully leading to the closure of over 100 of these groups. The JIDF says they began taking 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 shut the group down. According to the JIDF, Facebook's inaction came "despite thousands of user complaints over the course of eighteen months". Editorials from the JIDF, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and The Jewish Week had previously described the "Israel is not a country…" group as anti-semitic. The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism (CFCA) 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 anti-Semitism 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

1. ^ "JIDF Response to Misplaced Pages". Aug 5, 2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
2. "Sample E-mail Activism Letter". May 20, 2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
3. ^ "Jewish Activist Battles For Israel on Facebook". Arutz 7. April 3, 2008. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
4. ^ "Facebook: 'Anti-Semitic' group hijacked by Jewish force". The Telegraph. July 31, 2008. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
5. "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)
6. "Anti-Semitism 2.0 Going Largely Unchallenged". The Jewish Week. February 20, 2008. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
7. 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)
8. "Israel - Facebook: 'Anti-Semitic' group hijacked by Jewish force"". CFCA Archives. Retrieved 2008-08-18. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
9. "Help ADL fight the next generation of online extremism "". ADL. Retrieved 2008-08-18. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

• The Jewish Internet Defense Force (Official website)
• The Jewish Internet Defense Force (Facebook group)

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