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Under Israeli pressure, Facebook and Twitter delete large amounts of Palestinian content June 9, 2016 Linda Thieman Bernie Sanders, Media, Palestine 1
From MiddleEastMonitor.com
Facebook and Twitter have recently deleted thousands of posts, pages and accounts in response to demands from the Israeli ministry of justice, Quds Press reported on Wednesday.
“We succeeded to achieve our goals as around 70 per cent of our demands [to delete Facebook and Twitter content] were fulfilled,” Israeli Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked said, according to Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
She also added: “We succeeded to delete incitement contents calling for death and violence across the internet.”
During a meeting she held to discuss “fighting incitement and shameful content on social media” three-days ago, Shaked reiterated Israel’s “cooperation with Facebook, Twitter and google regarding the violent electronic Palestinian incitement”.
Shaked claimed that when internet incitement decreased, the attacks on Israelis decreased.
“This proves that there is a direct relationship between internet incitement and violence in Israel,” she said.
No, the only thing that this proves is that all US media can be bought, and that Israel controls the anti-Palestine story. This is going to be a big fight to ever get the United States to acknowledge the truth about the 68-year massacre of the Palestinian people by the Israelis. The state-sponsored brutality must end. And Bernie Sanders is courageous enough to publicly recognize that truth. |
