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Hate mail to French Jewish Parliament member: ‘Soon the camps again’
The Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation after a Jewish member of the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, received anti-Semitic hate mail, according to the European Jewish Congress.
Parliament member Yael Braun-Pivet published...
In viral tweet, former Israeli UN envoy urges Biden to phone Netanyahu
Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Wednesday tweeted an appeal to U.S. President Joe Biden that he contact Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, listing other world leaders to whom the newly elected...
Jewish civil-rights group protests Twitter CEO over not banning Holocaust denial
The grassroots Jewish civil-rights movement End Jew Hatred protested outside the California home of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Monday, blaring audio recordings of Holocaust-denying tweets that have not been removed from Twitter.
The group said Dorsey...
Following Trump ban, Iranian dissident calls on Twitter to ban Khamenei
Following Twitter banning U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform, an Iranian dissident journalist has called on the social-media company to do the same to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In a statement to The...
JVP under fire for tweeting ‘L’Chaim Intifada’ poster
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), an organization that supports the BDS movement, has come under fire for a since-deleted tweet that appears to glorify the First Intifada.
The Dec. 8 tweet featured a poster from...
Tlaib retweets, then undoes, ‘from the river to the sea’ post
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) retweeted a post over the weekend that read “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” that was part of an “International Day of Solidarity” picture.
https://twitter.com/Claire_Voltaire/status/1333212176346087429
The legislator undid...
Khamenei: Iran’s US policy won’t change, regardless of election results
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that the result of the U.S. presidential election would not alter the country’s policy towards America.
“Our policy towards the United States is clearly set and...
Israel: Tackling phony social-media accounts ‘major strategic challenge to be dealt with’
Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs released a 37-page report this week titled “Manipulating Social Media: The effort to delegitimize Israel through coordinated inauthentic behavior online.”
The report shares the results of a ministry study examining...
Twitter intends to remove posts denying the Holocaust
Twitter announced last week that it will remove posts that deny the Holocaust.
Bloomberg first reported the move on Oct. 14.
“Our Hateful Conduct Policy prohibits a wide range of behavior, including making references to violent events or...
Without context, FBI shares ‘Protocols of Elders of Zion’
Without providing context, an official FBI Twitter account shared a link to a copy on the bureau’s website of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamous and classic anti-Semitic text.
The fabrication, which was...