Posts Tagged: Twitter
CNN Journo Causes Uproar Over Palestinian Olive Tree Story
A news editor for CNN's London desk came under fire over an article he wrote on Sunday alleging that Israeli West Bank settlers had chopped...
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...
‘#Iran_Aflame’ Trends as Kurdish Protesters Confront Iranian Police
As Iranian Kurds rioted in the northwestern city of Mahabad in response to the mysterious death of a Kurdish woman, the Twitter hash-tag "#إيران_تشتعل" or...
British Ethnologist Richard Dawkins Declares ‘Jew’ is Not a Race
The British ethnologist who invented the idea of a "meme" long before the term applied to images floating around the Internet offered his two cents...
#AskHamas Twitter Campaign is Now Available in Hebrew
A Hamas publicity campaign, established on Twitter, which invites users from around the word to ask the terror organization's leaders questions, under the hashtag #AskHamas,...
Netanyahu Responds to White House Twitter Attack, Suggests Better Retweet
In a Sunday interview on CBS's "Face the Nation," Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to a personal attack by the White House relating to his...
TV Personality Lord Alan Sugar Calls in London Police Over Antisemitic Tweet
Lord Alan Sugar, the flamboyant British-Jewish businessman and television personality, has called in London's Metropolitan Police after receiving antisemitic abuse on Twitter. Sugar, who is a...
Anchor Jim Clancy Leaves CNN Following Abusive Twitter Exchange With Pro-Israel Activists
CNN anchor Jim Clancy has left the network one week after a bizarre exchange with pro-Israel activists on Twitter about the terrorist outrages in Paris,...
CNN Anchor Jim Clancy’s Twitter Account Shut Down Following Disability Slur, Insulting Exchange With Pro-Israel Activists
The Twitter account of veteran CNN anchor Jim Clancy has been shut down, following an angry exchange the presenter held with a group of pro-Israel...
British Parliamentarian Calls on Twitter to Ban Anti-Semitic and Racist Abuse
A Jewish member of the British parliament has called on Twitter and other social media companies to ban the use of racist and anti-Semitic epithets...
Iranian Supreme Leader Threatens: With or Without Nuclear Deal, ‘Israel Will Get More Insecure on a Daily Basis’
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has starkly contradicted American assurances that Israel's security would not be damaged by a deal over Tehran's nuclear program. "US...
Reported Jerusalem-Based ISIS Group Calls for Killing Twitter Staffers
A reported Jerusalem- based, ISIS-supporting group on Sunday called on "lone wolves" to kill Twitter employees who close down supporting accounts, the website Vocativ...
Turkish Finance Minister Questions Israel’s Rights as Jewish State Over Twitter
Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek on Sunday questioned Israel's right to exist as the Jewish state via Twitter, where the politician has nearly a million...
Egyptian Satirist’s Plagiarism of Jewish Author Prompts Anti-Semitic Maelstrom on Twitter
Cairo-based satirist Bassem Youssef, the host of Egypt's popular El Bernameg news program, sparked a controversy this month when he plagiarized an article about Putin's Russia published...
