Posts Tagged: hate speech
Jewish, Anti-Hate Groups Express Concern Over Meta’s New Fact-Checking Policy: ‘All of Society Will Suffer’
Jewish groups and a slew of other organizations said this week they are extremely worried about how Meta's new community-driven, fact-checking system will worsen online...
Social Media a ‘Megaphone’ for Hate Speech, ‘Normalizing’ Antisemitism, Nonprofit Chief Warns
Social media is acting as a "megaphone" for antisemitism and other forms of hate speech to thrive, with teenagers falling prey to lies and hatred...
Bill Meant to Combat Hateful Online Content Passes California Legislature
The California State Assembly on Tuesday voted to approve a social media transparency bill following its passage in the senate the previous day, garnering praise...
UN Palestinian Refugee Agency Puts Six Educators on Leave Amid Accusations of Hate Speech, Incitement
The UN agency for Palestine refugees has put six of its educators on administrative leave amid "allegations of hate speech” disclosed in a report issued...
Pro-Palestinian Protesters in Germany Chant Antisemitic Slogans, Assault Journalists and Police
Germany’s interior minister denounced pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Berlin Saturday, who chanted antisemitic and anti-Israel slogans, attacked police officers and harassed journalists. “There is no place in...
Tel Aviv University Presents Global ‘Positive Trends’ Countering Antisemitism to Israel’s President
Senior researchers at the Tel Aviv University have highlighted positive trends and initiatives countering antisemitism during 2021, as leading Jewish groups said last year marked...
Israel and UN Agree to Work Together to Stem Spread of Incitement, Antisemitism on Social Media Platforms
Israeli Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres agreed to cooperate on countering hateful, inciting antisemitic content present on online social media...
Quora Writers Say ‘Unchecked Jew-Hatred,’ Holocaust Denial Persist on Popular Q&A Site
As social media companies increasingly face public scrutiny over their moderation of hateful content, a number of Jewish writers on the question-and-answer platform Quora are...
We Must Tighten Hate Speech Laws to Combat Antisemitism
For many years now, I have written and advocated for stronger laws in Canada against hate speech. In 2019, I testified at an inter-parliamentary committee...
Peace Plan Protesters in New York Echo Hamas Views of Israel
The Trump administration recently unveiled its blueprint for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, one that creates a Palestinian state and protects Israeli security requirements in...
The US Must Institute Laws Against Antisemitism
The recent reports surrounding US neo-Nazi website Vanguard News Network (VNN)’s publication of photos of students and faculty at Yeshiva University (YU) in New York...
Relegitimizing Antisemitism on the Right and the Left
More than 70 years after the murder of six million Jews in the Shoah, we are witnessing a variety of efforts to legitimize antisemitism once...
Danish Imam Defends Himself Against Hate Speech Charges by Calling for Jihad Against Israel
Danish imam Mundhir Abdallah recently defended himself against hate speech charges pending against him by calling for jihad against Israel. Abdallah, imam of the Al-Faruq Mosque...
Pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act and Protect the First Amendment
JNS.org - Eight years ago during the Obama administration, the US State Department adopted a definition of antisemitism to be used in identifying Jew-hatred around the...
