On Facebook
During 2007, a controversy on
Facebook was reported involving "the drop-down list of places members can use to show where they live."
[12] A Facebook group, "Palestine Is not a country ... Delist it from Facebook as a country!", had been formed in 2007 which petitioned Facebook management to remove Palestine from Facebook's list of countries. Several
Facebook groups formed to support or oppose this removal including "Israel is not a country! Delist it from Facebook as a country". Matt Hicks of Facebook responded by saying: "As long as the groups meet our terms of use, they can stay up. But we encourage users to report anything that is racist or objectionable.
[12] The JIDF claimed the "Israel is not a Country" group was antisemitic and mobilized supporters to complain to Facebook in an effort to have it deleted.
[10] After Facebook refused to shut the group down, the JIDF said it somehow took control of the group in July 2008.
[5] As of August 2010, two groups with the same names were active on Facebook.[
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According to a November 2008 article in
Haaretz,
[11] the JIDF forwarded lists of Facebook groups that it deemed promoted hatred or violence to the website's administrators, hoping they would be removed. According to a man named "David" quoted in the Haaretz article, Facebook either did nothing or waited months before taking action. "David" told Haaretz that his group then decided to try to technically "intercept Facebook groups and make them impossible to access." The JIDF was particularly upset about Facebook groups praising the shooting of
students at Jerusalem's Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in March 2008.
[8].
In July 2009, the JIDF and
Avi Dichter took credit for successfully pressuring Facebook into removing a fan page for
Hizbullah leader
Hassan Nasrallah. The JIDF said it mobilized supporters to complain about the page to Facebook's owners.
[13] The JIDF website claims that it deleted the vast majority of a pro-Hezbollah fan page's 118,000 members. The JIDF sites says it has removed more than 100 antisemitic groups from Facebook.
[11] The JIDF said in September 2009 that it took over the Facebook group "Eliminate Israel from Being" and deleted more than 5,000 members before Facebook management "returned control of the site to its administrators."
[14]
The JIDF has criticized Facebook for allegedly condoning and hosting
Holocaust denial groups on its network. The group has charged that it's hypocritical of Facebook to remove groups that support the KKK, for instance, while not removing what it considers Holocaust denial sites and has vowed to keep putting pressure on Facebook over the matter.
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