Breaking News: Facebook Shuts Down Third Intifada Group
March 29, 2011 13:40 by Alex Margolin
Despite previous statements saying they would monitor but not remove the controversial Facebook group calling for a Third Intifada, Facebook administrators shut down the group early Tuesday morning in response to enormous pressure from pro-Israel activists. All links to the group now go to users personal Facebook profile.
The group had been calling for a march on Israel to “liberate” Palestine beginning on May 15. It remains to be seen how Facebook will respond if similar groups emerge with similar message of a Third Intifada.
New media expert Andre Oboler, one of the first to discover the group was down, told HonestReporting that Facebook made the correct decision shutting down the group. “It’s about time,” he said. “Facebook needs to learn to distinguish between the right to ‘attack’ conceptual ideas, and the ‘wrong’ of attacking people be it because of their race, religion, nationality or political view. When they start to understand that, perhaps they will stop making so many mistakes.”
See our previous post for background on the issue.
Larry Kuznick
4:28 pm
Mar 29, 2011
Kudos to Facebook that it had the integrity and courage to go against the many millions in the Arab World calling for Israeli and Jewish destruction. There is nothing new in typecasting the Jews as the devil of all the ills plaguing the world. Hitler used it successfully as the cause of all the problems in Germany. And the Arab establishment has foisted it conveniently on their masses as the reason for their poverty, lack of jobs, plight of their brethren wherever. They threw out their Jews, the same number as Palestinians who left that country, in each case virtually only wilth the shirts on their backs. The Palestinians were offered up to 98% of the land beyond the truce lines of 1967, but refused to accept it. What they want is all of Palestine, right up to the beach in Tel Aviv
Now, they are threatening another intifada, terror in the streets and countryside of Israel, filled with anti-Jewish rhetoric. Thank you, Facebook, for reallizing that your subscription to that action would be criminal. As they say in Arabic, Mazel Tov.
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monique peretz
4:38 pm
Mar 29, 2011
I agree with that comment only the word mazel tov is not an arabic word at all please don’t make a mistake like this, arabs don’t have such nice words, they have only blaspheming words which are used like friendly, check it out! Mazel tov is jewish completely!
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jer
7:48 pm
Mar 29, 2011
monique:
i am sure that the person who said that was making a joke. if you look at their name, you will know that they know very well that mazel tov is jewish.
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Rune
4:35 pm
Mar 29, 2011
Great .God bless Israel and the jeiwsh people
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Mh8196
4:39 pm
Mar 29, 2011
I agree with the previous commentor…kudos to Facebook having the corporate courage to take down this awful social locus. Social networking can be a wonderful tool to connect people. However, there are limits to this technology when hate is pushed. Good job Facebook.
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Dali
4:50 pm
Mar 29, 2011
Well done, Monique! I checked it out and you are right: Mazal Tov IS Jewish! Full marks for languages, Monique.
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Micheal
2:50 pm
Nov 01, 2011
Didn\’t know the forum rules allwoed such brilliant posts.
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Leah C.
4:47 pm
Mar 29, 2011
I am so happy that Facebook choose to do the only right thing…
Am Yisrael Chai…
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Dali
4:52 pm
Mar 29, 2011
True to their word, there will be no more muslims on FB
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kitch
6:39 pm
Mar 29, 2011
Well, lets see how they keep to their word about boycotting facebook, now that the page has been removed.
I certainly wouldn’t mind if for once they meant what they say. But we all know otherwise…
Oh well.
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wendy
4:53 pm
Mar 29, 2011
unfortunately facebook allows this instead
https://www.facebook.com/Rassoul.Allaah?sk=wall
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RGM
5:08 pm
Mar 29, 2011
Re that page: Just ran its content through google translate. Don’t worry about it. Just the usual facebook babbling, this time in Arabic.
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Mealways
8:03 pm
Mar 29, 2011
I noticed that my name comes up. I really think that Face Book backed this site. Shut all future ones down also Face Book. Shame on you all for keeping it up for so long.
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simplyme
5:35 pm
Mar 29, 2011
How come you can see your name when open the page,they expose you just by going on their page ,how come facebook let hat happen?
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adele
5:51 pm
Mar 29, 2011
that may be so, but it carries the poster add for the 3rd intifada as supported and proposed by the now removed hate page. If they were to remove that poster ad, I would feel more comfortable. yet the cow’s left the barn with more than 300,000 liking viewers already having seen the removed content…
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UPDATE: Facebook Shuts Down Third Intifada Website Calling For War On Jews — ExposeTheMedia.com
4:55 pm
Mar 29, 2011
[...] UPDATE: Facebook Shuts Down Third Intifada Group Atlas Shrugs brought the following news to my attention this morning. There is a Facebook page calling for another Islamic war against the Jews, a “Palestinian” Third Intifada. Israel is asking Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to remove the page. And with every second that passes, it appears their request will be declined. Why? Posted at the very bottom of the ’Third Palestinian Intifada’ page is the image below. [...]
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Lea de Lange
5:07 pm
Mar 29, 2011
All of this does not really make me happy. If a Jew has to rejoice because a terrible
outcry for the destruction of Israel has been partly stopped than, no, sorry, do count me out. I am not coming to any party to celebrate. I want much more. I want persecution of evil. I want hatespeech to be not only forbidden but a criminal offence punishable by a couple of years inside a prison.
How bad do things have to get before we shall see redemption?
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kitch
6:48 pm
Mar 29, 2011
That’s very good things to want. You can be proactive in this matter, by making sure that in your personal life, you do not say anything negative about anyone. (If you really need to speak about someone’s negative behavior, speak to your Rav or Mashpia, on how you can erradicate the negativity from within you.
Now that is really one step closer to seeing Moshiach with our physical eyes.
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Shirley
5:22 pm
Mar 29, 2011
I totally agree with Lea de Lange, and add only that it bothers me that the original post reads: “Facebook administrators shut down the group early Tuesday morning in response to enormous pressure from pro-Israel activists.”
I would hope that pressure came from people other than pro-Israel activists. This is about eradicating messages on social media that celebrate the destruction of any race, religion or indeed anyone that one does not agree with. I’d like to think that Facebook heard from anyone who deplores hate speech.
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Zionist for Israel
5:22 pm
Mar 29, 2011
Perhaps it would be better to keep it on and see how many Arabs march to Israel from the West Bank and through through Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt on May 15, which is the anniversary of Israeli Independence. I would prefer if Face book played all the speaches from Gamal Abdul Nasser and all the other hate mongers to remind them of the predictions that never happened, the flowerly lies and outrageous claims and to hear Arab reactions played on facebook for the world to view.
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Vicky Tobianah
5:30 pm
Mar 29, 2011
I just checked and it’s still up…
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The Caped Crusader
5:31 pm
Mar 29, 2011
Don’t know which one they’ve deleted. The one I know about is still up and has over 3 million subscribers!
https://www.facebook.com/Rassoul.Allaah?ref=nf
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Nathan Zafran
5:49 pm
Mar 29, 2011
Why all the fuss? Facebook and all the phony and santimonious media should have the courage to resist primitive and atrocious hatemongers from the outset, and not wait for protests and outcries from supporting groups. This is as bad as Abu Maazen who tells his people not to commit atrocities, not because it’s morally wrong, but because it’s harmful to the Palestinian cause. Disgusting really.
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6:01 pm
Mar 29, 2011
[...] the page came down. Long overdue but at least it is down. Breaking News: Facebook Shuts Down Third Intifada Group Honest Reporting, Alex [...]
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Barbara Hochman
6:07 pm
Mar 29, 2011
There’s already a new “Third Palestinian Intifada” facebook page with 448 likes.
Please go to this link and report the page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Third-Palestinian-Intifada-%D9%85%D8%AE%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86-%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7/137265029675269
or just search for it….
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Pinny
6:27 pm
Mar 29, 2011
My limited translation using Google Translate does not seem to show any reference to Israel or Jews. Does the page actually mention them anywhere?
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Robin Zygelman
6:23 pm
Mar 29, 2011
Facebook did the right thing,by shutting down that horrible site. It is not the purpose of Facebook to let hateful speech have a forum!
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MiamiGuy
6:39 pm
Mar 29, 2011
If you want to translate the Arabic, just put the url into translate.google.com.
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RGM
6:51 pm
Mar 29, 2011
Tried that with the earlier page, google said it couldn’t find it, so I just did a highlight/copy/paste of the content itself, google did translate that. Dunno.
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Abraham levy
6:55 pm
Mar 29, 2011
Well done Facebook it does say a lot for Facebook 10 points
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R_not
7:06 pm
Mar 29, 2011
It it back up and growing fast. Israel needs to stay on top of this and quite a number of us have been reporting the new page: http://www.facebook.com/PALESTINIAN.INTIFADA.THIRD?sk=app_4949752878
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Lynne Schwartz
7:42 pm
Mar 29, 2011
Check out Third Palestinian Intifada on Facebook and you can find several sites – very active.
There was supposed to be a boycott of Facebook on Sunday 3 April but someone cancelled it because they thought the site was down. Facebook is not doing a very good job of monitoring incitement.
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Sandra
7:47 pm
Mar 29, 2011
There are definitely other sites if you put in ‘hate israel’ in your facebook search you will find others. These also need to be shut down!
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