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German Minister Slams Facebook for Enabling Holocaust Denial, Racial Incitement
Germany's Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection attacked social media giant Facebook for allowing the circulation of Holocaust denial, Israel's Channel 2 reported on Sunday. Minister Heiko Maas...
Jewish Group Rejects Air France Apology for Excluding Israel From Flight Maps
When passengers who flew on Air France flights recently notified the company that Israel's place on the flight map was conspicuously absent, though the West Bank and Gaza...
Holocaust-Themed Turkish ‘Great Escape’ Game Threatens to Turn Challengers Into Soap
The popular real-life interactive "Great Escape" game has made it to Turkey, but the new challenge has raised some eyebrows. The Turkish version has apparently adopted a Holocaust...
Student Group Says Only One Third of Antisemitic Material Removed From YouTube, Facebook
Social networking giants Facebook and YouTube removed only one-third of antisemitic and anti-Israel uploads that were posted this past year, the watchdog group Israeli Students...
Author Naomi Wolf Once Again Compares Israelis to Nazis
Radical feminist author Naomi Wolf has again attacked Israel by invoking the Nazi Holocaust of six million Jews. Writing on her Facebook page, Wolf linked a...
Deputy Editor of Egypt’s Al-Ahram Dies Just Weeks After Penning Controversial Article Supporting Netanyahu Against Hamas
Azza Sami, 51, Deputy Editor of Egypt's'Al Ahram newspaper, was reported to have died on Thursday while on vacation at an Egyptian resort. No further...
Dutch IDF Volunteer Livid After Al Jazeera Columnist Uses Her Photo, Calls Her a Jihadist
A young Dutch woman on Wednesday appealed for help on Facebook to counter slurs against her by a columnist for Al Jazeera, who used her...
What Judaism Says About the Dangers of Facebook
I recently attended a panel session at Limmud Oz in Australia entitled "Is Facebook good for the Jews?" The panel - all experienced media professionals...
Kidnap Threat Against Miss Israel Investigated, Following Abduction and Murder of Teens
A kidnapping threat against Miss Israel, Mor Maman posted on her Facebook page, apparently from an Arabic-speaker, is being investigated by Israeli authorities. The scare came...
Facebook Removes ‘Moroccan Ghosts’ Page After Hacker Group Defaces Jewish Websites in U.S.
Facebook removed a page belonging to the Moroccan Ghosts, an anonymous hacker group that took credit for defacing the webpages of four Jewish institutions...
Rabbi Extracts Apology From Anti-Semites in Los Angeles
A rabbi extracted an apology from anti-Semites on bikes who verbally assaulted him as he was walking to shul in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Rabbi Michy...
BDS Group Opposing Rolling Stones Concert in Tel Aviv Says Syria’s Assad ‘Owned by the Jews’
A group of anti-Israel activists promoting BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctioning of Israel, who are trying to pressure the Rolling Stones into cancelling their...
Roger Waters Implies MLK Would Have Been Anti-Israel if Alive Today
Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd bassist, continued his online screeds against Israel on Thursday with a Facebook post which implied that if civil rights...
Meet the Rabbi Who Opened Facebook’s Fourth Account a Decade Ago
As social media platform Facebook turns 10 years old this week, now with more than a billion members, one of its first users, today studying...
