anti-semitism in the social networks

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Anti-Semitism in the

Social Networks?

Hanikra

02/09/2012

http://notasdehanikra.blogspot.com


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Anti-Semitism in the Social Networks?

With the technological advances the doors to the social

networks have been opened, among the ones with the greater

number of users we can find Facebook and Twitter.

The use of these networks allows for a faster and more directcommunication with family, friends and with people whom we

have similar interests. The networks dont have frontiers, from

a PC, a laptop or a Smartphone we can be connected with the

world.

Through these networks we can exchange photos, personal

information, give our opinion on issues even give good or bad

news.

A message transmitted in them, in just seconds, can be

received by thousands of persons at the same time, regardless

the part of the world they are in.

An example of this has been the transmission, via Twitter, of

messages from the countries facing political problems lately.

When we register in any of these systems, we are asked to

read the Conditions and Usage Policies, which are the fine

print found at the end of a contract, but that on a fewoccasions we take the time to read.

Supposedly whats established on these Policies applies,

equally, to all users, but if we take a short tour we find out

that that is not the case.


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Next we make a special mention of the Policies of the social

network called Facebook.

In their Statement of Rights and Responsibilities

Point 3 Safety we find:

N7 You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or

pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic

or gratuitous violence.

N10 You will not use Facebook to do anything unlawful,misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.

If we take into account the previous statements, no Facebook

user can incite violence or do anything malicious or

discriminatory.

As we all know, the founder of the company, young Mark Elliot

Zuckerberg, is of Jewish origin so that is why we dont

understand why when a Jewish organization uploads to its

Facebook profile a note or a cartoon, without violating the

aforementioned points, this is immediately deleted by the

administrators of the network.

The opposite happens with pages promoted by the terrorist

group Hams, the term terrorist was given by international

organisms, who freely endorse those actions, incite violence

and hatred towards Israel and those who practice the Jewish

religion.


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In our tour we found many pages, of which we will only show

the following:

In an image gallery we can find a series of cartoons that needno comment from us to explain the message conveyed.

Legend: Many mothers still wait for their children, prisoners of Israel


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Legend: Jewish child: My dad told me you are wicked and terroristsPalestinian child: My dad did not say anything; he was KILLED by you

Note: Among the commentaries added by the persons who

visit the page we can find:

- (Sic) The worst scum that has ever existed in humanityare the damn jews!! 1 free palestine ;)

- (Sic) We must put an end to Israel its about time we givethose murderers what they deserve.

- (Sic) Now I understand why Adolf Hitler wanted to getrid of them, too bad they didnt let him.

Legend: Long live the fight of the Palestinian people! Down with the

occupation!!


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Legend: This is my land and my house!

Associated to this page and with similar contents we find the

following:

A comment (Sic): Palestine resist the world is with you!!!Little by little wake up!!! And support your right brothersunited we will forge ahead!!!! All for a free Palestine!!!!

Note: This last one is Venezuelan, and I can assure you that

most of its visitors, dont know where the Gaza Strip is located

on a map.


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The other social network we visited is Twitter for being the

most widely used to divulge information, because of the

immediacy of transmission.

The Twitter Rules

Our goal is to provide a service that allows you to discover andreceive content from sources that interest you as well as to

share your content with others. We respect the ownership of

the content that users share and each user is responsible for

the content he or she provides. Because of these principles,

we do not actively monitor users content and will not censor

user content, except in limited circumstances described below.

Content Boundaries and Use of Twitter

* Violence and Threats: You may not publish or post direct,specific threats of violence against others.

* Unlawful Use: You may not use our service for any unlawfulpurposes or in furtherance of illegal activities. Internationalusers agree to comply with all local laws regarding onlineconduct and acceptable content


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* Pornography: You may not use obscene or pornographicimages in either your profile picture or user background.

For Twitter, the user is responsible of the content he or sheprovides, but at the same time within the limitations of thecontents we find that it is not allowed the posting of messagesthat incite violence, as well as it is not allowed the promotionof illegal activities.

It stands out the prohibition on pornography in Twitter, thing

which we totally support, but no mention is made on the use

of the network for the transmission of messages from

terrorists groups.

On the 6th in the blog of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) in

their english version, we found the following information:

http://www.idfblog.com/hamas/2012/02/06/hamas-tweets-

killing-jews-conquering-jerusalem/

Hamas Tweets for Killing Jews and Conquering Jerusalem

Since Hamas began tweeting on November 21, 2009 it hasamassed a fellowship of almost 20,000 followers on itsvarious accounts. These accounts include those of Hamas Info the main organizations office, Hamas military arm theEzzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas media wing Al- AqsaTV, Hamas political Bureau deputy chairman MousaMohammed Abu Marzook, senior Hamas official Izzat Rishq,and two accounts for Hamas radio

Hamas uses its accounts to tweet news flashes, reportattacks, battles and other operational activities, and sharevideos. However, the main focus of Hamas tweets are thedispersion of Propaganda, including calls for Jihad andmartyrdom, the expulsion and killing of Jews , and forconquering Jerusalem

All accounts send their tweets almost exclusively in arabic andare used to disperse Hamas hateful propaganda messages.The following are only a few examples of tweets sent by the

Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades:


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PM Haniya, We clearly say that the militant resistance is theonly way for liberating the land.

December 14, 2011

Al Qassam Brigades vows to abduct more soldiersqassam.ps/news-5044-Al_Q

October 23, 2011

One Nation For New Holocaust, God willing. check this videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETt2FHdy8Kc

April 7, 2011

Hamas calls for forming Arab army to liberate O.Jerusalem qassam.ps/news-5208-Hama

December 21, 2011

Hamas and its armed wing, the Ezzedeen al-QassamBrigades, are designated as terrorist organizations by the US,EU, Israel, Japan and Canada. Al-Aqsa TV Channel isdesignated as a terrorist-funding organization by the U.S.Treasury Department and Mousa Abu Marzook is listedas a Specially Designated Terrorist on the U.S. TreasuryDepartments Specially Designated National list.

Not only does Hams has multiple accounts in Twitter, the so-called Associations that claim to work for a free Palestine,

they appear with the same name ordered numerically, for

example: @xxpal, @xxpal2, @xxpal3.

The tweets of these accounts contain more or less the same

message in different languages, inciting the destruction of

Israel and the promotion of the hatred towards the Jews.


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Conclusion

The globalization of the information, through the social

networks, is one of the great benefits provided by technology.

But at the same time, the multiple sources of mass

information that run through these networks are creatingdisinformation by not making a rational use of those.

The networks are being used by terrorist organizations for thetransmission of false news and for the publishing of contentsthat incite hate and the discrimination by creed, race or sex.

The purpose of said action is no other than to make their liesbe read millions of users.

The proliferation of Facebook pages and Twitter accounts,inciting the destruction of Israel and of the Jewish peopleappear to go under the radar of the people in charge of thesocial networks, who allow their functioning.

Hence our initial question Anti-Semitism in the SocialNetworks?

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