Facebook zal hoogstwaarschijnlijk haar definitie van antisemitisme aanpassen (plus die belachelijke definitie)

Posted on September 25, 2020June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

ACT.IL
is de Israëlische trollenfabriek die elk commentaar op Israël zou
‘aanvallen’ met positieve uitingen t.a.v. Israël, uiteraard met
medeneming van kritiek op het geuite negatieve commentaar op Israël,
dit gecombineerd met meldingen van antisemitisme aan platforms als
Facebook. Echter ACT.IL kan het werk niet aan vanwege de vele publicaties op
het internet. Daarom zetten rechtse zionistische organisaties* Facebook (en YouTube) onder druk om elke kritiek
op Israël als antisemitisch en haatzaaierij te bestempelen en daarom
te verwijderen van haar platform……

Hier
de definitie van antisemitisme zoals die in 2016 en werd goedgekeurd
door de 31 landen die lid zijn van de International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance (IHRA):

“Antisemitisme
is een bepaalde perceptie van Joden die tot uiting kan komen als een
gevoel van haat jegens Joden. Retorische en fysieke uitingen van
antisemitisme zijn gericht tegen Joodse of niet-Joodse personen en/of
hun eigendom en tegen instellingen en religieuze voorzieningen van de
Joodse gemeenschap.”

In
die definitie staat te lezen: retorische en fysieke uitingen van
antisemitisme zijn gericht tegen Joodse en niet-Joodse
personen en/of hun
eigendom en tegen
instellingen en religieuze voorzieningen van
de Joodse gemeenschap…… Ofwel ook kritiek
op Israëlische nederzettingen of op de Israëlische staat, het leger
en zelfs Israëlische bedrijven die hun boek ver te buitengaan,
kunnen worden aangemerkt als antisemitisme, immers de genoemde
organisaties worden geleid door Joden…….. Sterker nog, als zo’n bedrijf in handen van een Jood, maar wordt geleid door een niet-Jood, is kritiek op zo’n bedrijf ook antisemitisch!!

Facebook
stelt nu nog dat het kritiek op Israël niet ziet als antisemitisme,
echter het is maar de vraag hoe lang Facebook haar rug recht zal
houden na het pleidooi van IHRA, zeker als je ziet, dat Palestijnen massaal van Facebook
werden uitgesloten, daar ze kritiek leverden op de vreselijke
behandeling die zij hebben te verduren van de fascistische
apartheidsstaat Israël….. Tel dat op bij de aanstelling van Emi Palmor voor de censuurafdeling van Facebook (zij was eerder hooggeplaatst bij Israëlische ministerie
van justitie**) en je begrijpt dat het niet lang zal duren
voor Facebook om zal gaan……………

Het
volgende artikel over deze zaak werd geschreven door Neve Gordon,
eerder gepubliceerd op Al Jazeera en door mij overgenomen van
Information Clearing House (Gordon gebruikt het woord Jood vaak
in zijn schrijven en dat gecombineerd met kritiek zou reden kunnen
zijn dat Facebook elke link naar dat artikel zal verwijderen van haar
platform….):

Redefining
anti-Semitism on Facebook

If
Facebook were to adopt the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, this
would be detrimental to freedom of speech.

By
Neve Gordon

Pro-Israel
organisations have lobbied Facebook to adopt the IHRA definition of
anti-Semitism [File: Reuters/Dado Ruvic]

September 24, 2020
“Information
Clearing House”
– With its 2.7 billion users, Facebook is the world’s largest
and arguably most influential social media platform. Therefore, it
comes as no surprise that right-wing Zionist organisations have
identified it as a key platform to promote their agenda.

Several years ago, for
example, the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs alongside students
from IDC, an Israeli university in Herzliya, helped
create ACT.IL, an “online community that will act to promote a
positive influence on the international public opinion towards the
state of Israel via social media platforms”. ACT.IL established
an army of trolls and then developed an app to make their
work more effective by coordinating mass reporting of Facebook posts
critical of Israel.

Soon, it became clear
that no army of trolls can cope with monitoring the massive amount of
content on Facebook. That is why, right-wing Zionist organisations
have recently begun pressuring Facebook to include criticism of
Israel as part of its own definition of hate speech. Their objective,
in other words, is to force Facebook to alter the algorithms it uses
to detect hate speech so the company’s own algorithms will
automatically remove any criticism of Israel from the platform.
Algorithms, they realised, are more efficient than trolls.

The
campaign

Working closely with
the Israeli government this past summer, the pro-Israel lobbying
group StopAntisemitism.org launched the new campaign after
receiving funding from right-wing philanthropist Adam Milstein.

In July, Orit
Farkash-Hacohen, Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, published
an op-ed in Newsweek urging social media companies to root
out the anti-Semitic “virus” by fully adopting the International
Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of
antisemitism.

A few weeks later, on
August 7, 120 organisations representing the “who’s who” of
Zionist right-wing groups sent a letter to Facebook’s
Board of Directors, calling upon them to fully adopt the IHRA
definition as the “cornerstone of Facebook’s hate speech policy
regarding antisemitism”.

This definition, which
has been endorsed or adopted in some official capacity by more than
30 countries, includes 11 examples of anti-Semitism, several of which
involve criticism of Israel. This is just the latest concrete
manifestation of how any critique of the Israeli government and its
politics now assumes the taint of anti-Semitism.

There is, to be sure,
some irony here. Historically, the fight against anti-Semitism has
sought to advance the equal rights and emancipation of Jews. Yet, in
the IHRA definition those who speak out against the subjugation of
Palestinians are called anti-Semites.

Thus, instead of
enabling the struggle against those wish to oppress, dominate and
exterminate Jews, this new definition of anti-Semitism comes after
those who wish to take part in the struggle for liberation from
colonial rule. In this way – as Judith Butler has observed – “a
passion for justice [is] renamed as anti-Semitism”.

Yet, the people behind
this campaign are neither interested in irony nor in justice, and
certainly not in justice for Palestinians. As Lara Friedman, the
president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace who wrote an expose
on the Facebook campaign for Jewish Currents, has pointed
out, their letter to the Board of Directors “represents the latest
front in the battle to use the IHRA definition to officially exclude
criticism of Israel from the bounds of acceptable discourse”.

Facebook
responds

The campaign seems to
have had an immense impact. Four days after receiving the letter from
the Zionist organisations, Guy Rosen, Facebook vice president for
Integrity, announced the organisation had updated its hate
speech policy to take into account certain kinds of implicit hate
speech, such as “stereotypes about Jewish people controlling the
world”.

Monika Bickert,
Facebook’s vice president of content policy, sent a letter to
the signatories, noting the company “draws on the spirit – and
the text – of the IHRA”, and that under Facebook’s policy,
“Jews and Israelis are treated as ‘protected characteristics’”.

Sheryl Sandberg,
Facebook’s chief operating officer, even wrote a personal
note to Milstein, who financed the campaign. She assured him that the
IHRA definition has been “invaluable – both in informing our own
approach, and as a point of entry for candid policy discussions with
organizations like yours”.

Yet, the company still
seems to be reluctant to adopt the parts of the definition that
relate to Israel, and it is not coincidental that in Facebook’s
responses they mention only hate speech towards Jews.

Friedman from the
Foundation for Middle East Peace cites senior Facebook official Peter
Stern who three months before the campaign was
launched asserted that: “We don’t allow people to make
certain types of hateful statements against individuals. If the focus
turns to a country, an institution, a philosophy, then we allow
people to express themselves more freely, because we think that’s
an important part of political dialogue … and that there’s an
important legitimate component to that. So we allow people to
criticize the state of Israel, as well as the United States and other
countries.”

The
battle continues

Unsurprisingly,
Facebook’s new hate speech policy has not satisfied the pro-Israel
lobby, and in the August 7 letter, part of the ire was directed
towards Stern, claiming that he had “admitted that Facebook does
not embrace the full adoption of the IHRA working definition because
the definition recognizes that modern manifestations of antisemitism
relate to Israel”.

In a tweet responding
to Sandberg’s letter, Milstein made it clear the campaign will
continue: “We look forward to working with @Facebook to ensure
#antisemitism is eradicated from the platform and the #IHRA working
definition of antisemitism is fully adopted by your organization.”

On the other side of
the political spectrum, a group of scholars (myself included)
specialising in anti-Semitism, Jewish and Holocaust history, and the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict wrote to Facebook about the
dangers of adopting the IHRA definition.

While urging Mark
Zuckerberg to “fight all forms of hate speech on Facebook”, we
called on him to refrain from “adopting and applying a politicized
definition of antisemitism, which has been weaponized to undermine
free speech, in order to shield the Israeli government and to silence
Palestinian voices and their supporters”.

If Facebook does
eventually bow down and include the full IHRA definition in its
algorithms, free speech on Israel/Palestine, which is already under
immense pressure, will receive a lethal blow. It is up to Facebook
users to voice their concern by notifying Zuckerberg and Sandberg
that they will abandon the platform the moment the media giant
decides to adopt the IHRA definition. Ultimately, we, the users, do
hold the power.

Neve Gordon is a
Marie & Curie Fellow and Professor of International Law at Queen
Mary University of London. He is also the author of Israel &
Occupation and co-author of The Human Right to Dominate.–
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* Wist
niet dat er ook linkse zionistische organisaties waren, ‘maar
goed, tegenwoordig kan je alles verwachten wat eerder ondenkbaar was, zie het handelen van de PvdA en GroenLinks tijdens de afgelopen 10 jaar…’

** Zie: ‘Facebook: Emi Palmor, ex-top Israëlische ministerie van Justitie krijgt topfunctie bij Facebooks censuurplatform‘

Zie ook:

‘Zwangere vrouw in Australië gearresteerd voor het op Facebook posten van protest tegen de COVID-19 maatregelen‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht naar artikelen over het Coronavirus en het misbruik van deze ziekte om burgerrechten in te perken)

‘YouTube verwijdert in aanloop naar presidentsverkiezingen video’s met info verkregen middels hacken, censuur door VS techreuzen‘

‘Facebook dat zo hoog van de toren blaast over fake news, staat keiharde leugens van Trump toe‘

‘Robert Epstein: Google en Facebook corrumperen de politiek en manipuleren de presidentsverkiezingen‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht over Facebook, censuur en de manipulatie van de verkiezingen in de VS)

De film over de pro-Israëlische lobby in de VS, die Israël verboden wil zien………

Posted on November 7, 2018June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

THE
ELECTRONIC INTIFADA (EI) heeft de 4 delen van ‘The Lobby – USA’ op
haar site gezet. In de film is te zien hoe sterk de Israël lobby is in de VS en hoe ongelofelijk smerig dit geteisem handelt. Middels lastercampagnes, spionage en intimidatie van burgers die zich voor Palestijnse rechten uitspreken
en die Israël vanwege haar ongebreidelde terreur bekritiseren, probeert men hen de mond te snoeren door hen af te schilderen als antisemieten…….

Ofwel op grond van kritiek op de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël, wil men critici afschilderen als antisemieten, lullig genoeg lukt dit in de meeste gevallen, al is het met behulp van de westerse reguliere media en het grootste deel van de westerse politici…… Let wel: dat hele label ‘antisemitisch’ is vooral belachelijk als men dit Palestijnen en andere arabieren aanwrijft, daar ook zij semieten zijn!!

Een ‘mooi
voorbeeld’ van een lastercampagne is die tegen Jeremy Corbyn de Labour leider, hij wordt al anderhalf jaar lang
voor antisemiet uitgemaakt, met hulp van o.a. ‘onafhankelijk
zendgemachtigde’ BBC, dit ondanks de band die Corbyn heeft met Joden die kritisch zijn op Israël, zoals de band met onze inmiddels overleden Hajo Meijer, NB een Holocaust overlever, die werkte voor Een Ander Joods Geluid……. In de Britse dagbladen is eveneens amper of geen weerwoord te vinden, Corbyn moet en zal de volgende verkiezingen
verliezen, daar zetten zich zelfs collega’s van Corbyn voor in,
verraders als opperschoft Tony Blair………

Ook in ons land zijn pro-Israëlische zionisten fanatiek bezig tegen mensen die kritiek hebben op het moorddadige beleid van Israël, o.a. Stan van Houcke is sinds kort het doelwit van zionisten ofwel fascisten als Leon de Winter…….

Voor het artikel van Durden heb
ik zelf de video’s overgenomen van YouTube (die van het originele artikel kan ik niet overnemen), ik geef ze i.t.t. tot het artikel op Zero Hedge wel alle 4 weer,
plus nog een video, met de titel: ‘Evidence
the Israel Lobby Control the US Government’. Mensen lees en
verwonder je hoe machtig de pro-Israël lobby in feite is, verwondering ook hoe men dergelijke haatcampagnes kan voeren en het gore lef heeft mensen die opkomen voor de rechten van Palestijnen, als antisemitisch weg te zetten……

Lees,
zie en geeft het door, tijd dat de ogen van de wereldbevolking
opengaan en dat Israël wordt aangepakt voor de vreselijke terreur die
het in haar illegaal gestichte staat en op de West Bank en de
Gazastrook uitoefent, inclusief een enorm aantal massamoorden, niet alleen vlak
voor en na de illegale stichting van Israël, maar tot op de dag van vandaag…

Israëlische
leiders als Netanyahu en Lieberman hadden in Scheveningen al jaren hun levenslange gevangenisstraf moeten uitzitten, en dat beste
bezoeker, heeft totaal niets met antisemitisme te maken, maar alles
met gerechtigheid voor de gepleegde oorlogsmisdaden als massamoord en bijvoorbeeld het opsluiten en martelen van Palestijnse mensen en zelfs
hun kinderen…….

Voorts zouden deze leiders terecht moeten staan voor zaken als het onthouden van water aan de Palestijnen, dit door vernieling van de bronnen (in de Gazastrook) en afdammingen in de Jordaan, t.b.v. de illegale Israëlische nederzettingen op de West Bank, waar Israël zich overigens totaal illegaal als bezettingsmacht bevindt, zoals nazi-Duitsland zich illegaal in ons land ophield van mei 1940 tot mei 1945

De 4 docu-films in het artikel hieronder werden door Al Jazeera gemaakt, echter deze mochten niet worden uitgezonden van Qatar, dit onder druk van Israël, Saoedi-Arabië en de VS……. De feiten in de documentaire werden o.a. verkregen door infiltratie >> een journalist gaf zich uit als een pro-Israëlische vrijwilliger in Washington.

Over censuur gesproken: ook Facebook doet mee aan pro-Israëlische lobby en het platform heeft al honderden accounts van Palestijnen verwijderd…….

En je weet het: als men een documentaire wil verbieden wil men zaken verborgen houden, ofwel Israël geeft in feite toe dat het een barbaars, inhumaan beleid voert t.a.v. de Palestijnen……. Dit alles (met nog een herhaling: het kan niet genoeg gezegd worden) in een illegaal gestichte staat op het grondgebied van die Palestijnen, dat te boek zou moeten staan als Palestina en niet als Israël!

Watch
the film the Israel lobby didn’t want you to see

The
Electronic Intifada 2
November 2018

Update: On
6 November, The Electronic Intifada published the final two episodes
of The
Lobby – USA. You
can watch
episodes three and four here.

The
Electronic Intifada has obtained a complete copy of The
Lobby – USA,
a four-part undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israel’s
covert influence campaign in the United States.

We
are releasing the leaked film simultaneously with
France’s Orient XXI and
Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar,
which have respectively subtitled the episodes in French and Arabic.

The
film was made by Al Jazeera during 2016 and was completed in
October 2017.

But
it was censored after
Qatar, the gas-rich Gulf emirate that funds Al Jazeera, came under
intense Israel
lobby pressure not
to air the film.

Although
Al Jazeera’s director-general claimed last month that there were
outstanding legal issues with the film, his assertions have
been flatly
contradicted by his own journalists.

In
March, The Electronic Intifada was the first
to report on
any of the film’s specific content. We followed
this in August by
publishing the first extract of the film, and shortly
after Max
Blumenthal at the Grayzone
Projectreleased others.

Since
then, The Electronic Intifada has released three
other extracts,
and several other journalists have watched the entire film and
written about it – including Alain
Gresh and Antony
Loewenstein.

Now
The Electronic Intifada can reveal for the first time that it has
obtained all four parts of the film.

You
can watch the first two parts in the video embeds above and below. (deel 3 en 4 onder dit artikel van EI)

To
get unprecedented access to the Israel lobby’s inner workings,
undercover reporter “Tony” posed as a pro-Israel volunteer
in Washington.

The
resulting film exposes the efforts of Israel and its lobbyists to spy
on, smear and intimidate US citizens who support
Palestinian human rights, especially BDS – the boycott,
divestment and sanctions movement.

It
shows that Israel’s semi-covert black-ops government
agency, the Ministry
of Strategic Affairs,
is operating this effort in collusion with an extensive network
of US-based organizations.

These
include the Israel
on Campus Coalition, The
Israel Project and
the Foundation
for Defense of Democracies.

Censored
by Qatar

The
film was suppressed after the government of Qatar came under intense
pressure not to release it – ironically from the very same lobby
whose influence and antics the film exposes.

Clayton
Swisher, Al Jazeera’s head of investigations, revealed in
an article for The
Forward in
March that Al Jazeera had sent more than 70 letters to individuals
and organizations who appear in or are discussed in the film,
providing them with an opportunity to respond.

Only
three did so. Instead, pro-Israel groups have endeavored to suppress
the film that exposes the lobby’s activities.

In
April, Al Jazeera’s management was forced
to deny a claim by
the hard-right Zionist Organization of America that the film had been
canceled altogether.

In
June, The Electronic Intifada learned
that a high level source in
Doha had said the film’s indefinite delay was due to “national
security” concerns of the Qatari government.

Covert action

As revealed
in a clip published by The Electronic Intifada earlier this week,
the film shows Julia

Reifkind
– then an Israeli embassy employee – describing her typical work
day as “mainly gathering intel, reporting back to Israel … to
report back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of
Strategic Affairs.”

She
discusses the Israeli government “giving our support” to front
groups “in that behind-the-scenes way.”

Reifkind
also admits to using fake Facebook profiles to infiltrate the circles
of Palestine solidarity activists on campus.

The
film also reveals that US-based groups coordinate their efforts
directly with the Israeli government, particularly its Ministry
of Strategic Affairs.

Run
by a former military intelligence officer, the ministry is in charge
of Israel’s
global campaign of covert sabotage targeting
the BDS movement.

The
film shows footage of the very same ex-military intelligence
officer, Sima
Vaknin-Gil,
claiming to have mapped Palestinian rights activism “globally. Not
just the United States, not just campuses, but campuses and
intersectionality and labor unions and churches.”

She
promises to use this data for “offense activity” against
Palestine activists.

Jacob
Baime, executive director of the Israel on Campus Coalition, claims
in the undercover footage that his organization uses “corporate
level, enterprise-grade social media intelligence software” to
gather lists of Palestine-related student events on campus,
“generally within about 30 seconds or less” of them being
posted online.

Baime
also admits on hidden camera that his group “coordinates” with
the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs.

Baime
states that his researchers “issue early warning alerts to our
partners” – including Israeli ministries.

Baime’s
colleague Ian Hersh admits in the film to adding Israel’s “Ministry
of Strategic Affairs to our operations and intelligence brief.”

“Psychological warfare”

Baime
describes how his group has used anonymous websites to
target activists.

“With
the anti-Israel people, what’s most effective, what we’ve found
at least in the last year, is you do the opposition research, put up
some anonymous website, and then put up targeted Facebook ads,”
Baime explains in part
three of the film.

“Canary
Mission is a good example,” he states. “It’s
psychological warfare.”

The
film names, for the first time, convicted
tax evader Adam
Milstein as
the multimillionaire funder and mastermind of Canary Mission – an
anonymous smear site targeting student activists.

The
Electronic Intifada revealed
this in a clip in August.

Eric
Gallagher, then fundraising director for The Israel Project, is seen
in the undercover footage admitting that “Adam Milstein, he’s the
guy who funds” Canary Mission.

Milstein
also funds The Israel Project, Gallagher states.

Gallagher
says that when he was working for AIPAC,
Washington’s most powerful Israel lobby group, “I was literally
emailing back and forth with [Adam Milstein] while he was in jail.”

Despite
not replying to Al Jazeera’s request for comment,
Milstein denied that
he and his family foundation “are funders of Canary Mission” on
the same day The Electronic Intifada published the clip.

Since
then, Josh Nathan-Kazis of The
Forward has identified
several other groups in
the US who fund Canary Mission.

Suppressed film

In
March, The Electronic Intifada published the
first details of what is in the film.

We
reported that it showed Sima Vaknin-Gil claiming to have leading
neoconservative think tank the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
working for her ministry.

The
undercover footage shows Vaknin-Gil claiming that “We have FDD.
We have others working on” projects including “data gathering,
information analysis, working on activist organizations, money trail.
This is something that only a country, with its resources, can do
the best.”

As
noted in part one of the documentary, the existence of the film and
the identity of the undercover reporter became known after footage he
had shot for it was used in Al Jazeera’s The
Lobby –
about Israel’s covert influence campaign in the UK –
aired in early 2017.

Since
then, Israel lobbyists have heavily pressured Qatar to prevent
the US film from airing.

“Foreign agent”

Clayton
Swisher, Al Jazeera’s head of investigations, first
confirmed in October 2017 that
the network had run an undercover reporter in the US Israel
lobby at the same time as in the UK.

Swisher
promised the film would be released “very soon,” but it never
came out.

Multiple
Israel lobby sources told Israel’s Haaretz newspaper
in February that they had received assurances from Qatari leaders
late last year that the documentary would not be aired.

Qatar denied
this,
but the paper stood by its story.

Swisher’s
op-ed in The
Forward was
his first public comment on the matter since he had announced
the documentary.

In
it, he refutes Israel lobby allegations about the film and expresses
frustration that Al Jazeera had not aired it, apparently due to
outside pressure.

Several
pro-Israel lawmakers in Washington have piled
on more pressure by pushing the

Department
of Justice to force Al Jazeera to register as a “foreign agent”
under a counterespionage law dating from the 1930s.

The
Israel lobby goes to Doha

While
the film was delayed, a wave
of prominent pro-Israel figures visited
Qatar at the invitation of its ruler, Emir Tamim
bin Hamad Al Thani.

They
have included some of the most right-wing and extreme figures among
Israel’s defenders in the US, such
as Harvard
law professor Alan Dershowitz and Morton Klein, the head of the
Zionist Organization of America.

Swisher
wrote in The
Forward that
he ran into Dershowitz at a Doha restaurant during one of these
visits, and invited the professor to a private viewing of the film.

“I
have no problem with any of the secret filming,” Swisher says
Dershowitz told him afterwards.

“And
I can even see this being broadcast on PBS” –
the US public broadcaster.

Yet
it appears that Israel lobby efforts to quash the film were
successful – until now.

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