Tag: Social Media
UN Human Rights commissioner calls Jew-hate ‘an assault on our collective humanity’
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, delivered a statement on Wednesday before a workshop geared to counter antisemitism, sponsored by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations in Geneva.
“Antisemitism is a scourge on our collective humanity,”...
UK politician criticized for using anti-Nazi poem to oppose smoking ban
British parliament member Esther McVey met with immediate pushback late last week after sharing lines on social media from a poem by Martin Niemöller titled “First They Came,” including the line “then they came for the Jews,” in...
Senate hearing reveals ‘extreme,’ antisemitic social-media posts linked to Trump shooter
The FBI believes that the man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump posted antisemitic and anti-immigrant content on a social-media account, pointing to some of the first indications of the political beliefs...
Iran deploys deceptively edited clip of 2017 Trump-Netanyahu meeting
The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) published an eight-second video on social media with the description “Netanyahu humiliated in the U.S.”
https://twitter.com/IrnaEnglish/status/1816842168947933293?
Observers soon discovered that the clip, released on Friday before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit...
A third of Facebook, Instagram posts about ‘martyrs’ praise terror
Of more than 28,000 posts and comments from more than 20,000 accounts on Facebook and Instagram that mentioned “martyrs,” some 32% of the 1.2 billion views—or an audience of 372.5 million—could have seen posts...
AJC lauds Supreme Court decision to remove online hate speech
The Supreme Court cast its decision on Monday on a case challenging Florida and Texas laws, Moody v. NetChoice, restricting the ability of technology companies to moderate offensive content online.
The American Jewish Committee released a statement on Tuesday heralding...
Global influencers gather in New York City for Jew-hatred summit
More than 300 influencers worldwide traveled to New York City earlier this week to fight antisemitism in a first-of-its-kind event.
“You are now on the precipice to decide which direction we go in. You only...
J’lem pans ‘NYT’ story accusing it of covert campaign to influence Congress
Israel vigorously denied as “false” a New York Times report on Wednesday alleging it is running a covert influence campaign on social media targeting U.S. lawmakers and the American public.
The goal of the alleged campaign is...
Maine man gets prison sentence for tweeting threat to kill Jews
U.S. District Judge Jon D. Levy sentenced a man from the state of Maine who circulated an online plan to shoot Jews on the second day of Rosh Hashanah.
Brian Dennison, 27, received 12 months and one...
Some iPhone keyboards suggest Palestinian flag for ‘Jerusalem’
Typing “Jerusalem” on the current iPhone iOS 17.4.1 software in an emoji search returns a Palestinian flag icon if the phone is set to English (UK) but not when set to English (U.S.), JNS...