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Fifty pro-Israel public figures are presented with the inaugural Voices of Iron award in a ceremony at the Knesset, Jan. 7, 2025. Photo by Meir Elipur.

‘Voices of Iron’ award honors online Israel advocacy warriors

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A total of 50 pro-Israel public diplomacy professionals, activists and social-media influencers were presented with the inaugural "Voices of Iron" award in a ceremony held at the Knesset auditorium on Tuesday. The award honors...
A photo illustration of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and the the company's logo, created on Jan. 7, 2025. Photo by Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images.

Ending Facebook censorship is a victory for freedom, not antisemitism

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Has Facebook just given a major boost to antisemites? That’s the take of the Anti-Defamation League and other ideological liberal and left-wing Jewish groups about the decision of Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Meta, the company that...

UN Human Rights commissioner calls Jew-hate ‘an assault on our collective humanity’

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...