Tag: Social Media
‘We believe in peace and justice, not just peace,’ pro-Israel activist says
As a young girl growing up in Montreal, Ysabella Hazan connected to the Chanukah story of the Maccabees and the Jewish Temple. “I always felt like it was a part of me,” she told...
Shin Bet exposes Iranian Telegram, Instagram recruitment of Israelis
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) on Monday revealed more details about an investigation initially publicized last month into Iranian efforts via social media networks to recruit Israeli citizens online to carry out terrorist...
If Israel can’t bring it to social media, bring the social media to Israel
With the realization that the social-media pen is mighty like the sword, the nonprofit organization Yalla Israel focuses on sending social-media influencers to Israel to experience the Jewish state firsthand and, it hopes, to portray Israel...
‘Explosion’ of conspiracy theories on social media about ‘tunnels’ at Chabad
The account Frum TikTok was one of many to post footage of a riot at a synagogue that is part of the world headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch. Police were called after “young agitators,” as Chabad put it,...
UN claims antisemitic posts are due to employee account being hacked
In what reads like the plot of a thriller no one would write, the United Nations claims that an unknown party hacked an employee’s social-media account, posted Jew-hatred (including comparing Israelis to Nazis) and...
Jewish TikTok workers reveal antisemitism in workplace, biased content
Since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, which have sparked surges of antisemitic acts worldwide, Jewish and Israeli employees of TikTok report a lack of support and insights into the biases underlying the platform’s heavily...
Instagram briefly bans Jewish, Israeli orgs, including JNS
Instagram on Wednesday briefly took down a number of Jewish and Israeli accounts, including that of JNS, over alleged rules violations, prompting accusations of censorship.
Other banned organizations included End Jew Hatred, a grassroots movement...
Musk: X to suspend those advocating ‘genocide,’ ‘decolonization,’ ‘from river to sea’
Elon Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur who owns X (formerly Twitter), posted on the social network on Nov. 17: “At risk of stating the obvious, anyone advocating the genocide of *any* group will be suspended from...
Farmers market boots vender who offered ‘Gas the Jews’ discount code
There’s peppercorn, and then there’s pepper scorn.
Justin Bale, who owns a business in Olathe, Kan., that grows more than 100 kinds of peppers and tomatoes, in addition to seasonings and hot sauces, has been...
Haley to AOC: ‘Why does Israel get under your skin?’
Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, knew exactly where she had seen the sort of double standards shown by nine representatives who voted against a resolution defending the Jewish state from accusations...