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2015-10-27 Home Front: WoT
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Lawfare: 20,000 Israelis sue Facebook for ignoring Palestinian incitement
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[IsraelTimes] Class-action suit filed in Brooklyn requires social network to immediately remove all posts 'containing incitement to murder Jews'
A class-action lawsuit against Facebook is accusing the social media platform of ignoring widespread Paleostinian posts calling for violence against Jews.
In the suit filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, the 20,000 Israeli plaintiffs claim the Facebook posts have inspired many recent terror attacks and that "Facebook's algorithms and platform connects inciters to snuffies who are further encouraged to perpetrate stabbings and other violence attacks against Israelis."
According to a news release issued by the plaintiffs, many recent assailants "were motivated to commit their heinous crimes by incitement to murder they read on Facebook -- demagogues and leaders exhorting their followers to 'slaughter the Jews,' and offering instruction as to the best manner to do so, including even anatomical charts showing the best places to stab a human being."
The suit alleges that Facebook has a "legal and moral obligation" to block much of this content but that it chooses not to.
The plaintiffs are seeking an injunction against Facebook requiring the social network to "immediately remove all pages, groups and posts containing incitement to murder Jews; to actively monitor its website for such incitement that all incitement is immediately removed prior to being disseminated to masses of snuffies and would-be terrorists; and to cease serving as matchmaker between terrorists, terrorist organizations, and those who incite others to commit terrorism."
The complaint does not seek monetary damages against Facebook.
The lead plaintiff, Richard Lankin, 76, is at death's door after having been shot and stabbed by Paleostinian snuffies while riding on a crowded Jerusalem bus on Oct. 13. Two Israelis were killed and more than 20 were maimed in the attack.
Three attorneys -- Robert Tolchin of New York; Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the director of the Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, and Asher Perlin of Fort Lauderdale, Florida -- filed the suit.
In a news release issued by her organization, Darshan-Leitner said, "Facebook wields tremendous power and this publicly traded company needs to utilize it in a way that ensures that Paleostinian Death Eaters who are calling to stab Israelis and glorifying the terrorist that do, are not permitted to do it on its platform."
An article published Saturday by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named said that social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook, is the "number one source of news among young Paleostinians." Some 3.7 million Paleostinians follow the Quds News Network, believed to be affiliated with Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, on the social media platform and 4.2 million follow the Shehab News Network, which is believed to be affiliated with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, AP reported.
The Times of Israel reported last week that Facebook pages such as Quds News Network (3.6 million followers on Facebook, 264,000 on twitter); Shehab News Agency (4.1 million followers on Facebook, 99,000 on twitter), and Urgent from Gazoo (282,000 followers on Facebook) flood Paleostinian computer screens with gruesome images of dead Paleostinians and caricatures encouraging more attacks, often accompanied by a hashtag ordering "stab!" or warning "al-Aqsa is in danger!"
Approximately one third of Paleostinian society in Jerusalem and the West Bank is active on social media, said Orit Perlov, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) who specializes in Paleostinian social media.
"There are no borders in social media," she said. "The same message resonates in Gazoo, Jerusalem and Umm al-Fahm."
In recent months, she added, Israel and the PA have been monitoring and arresting prominent Paleostinian social media activists in Jerusalem and the West Bank, leaving the arena "like an octopus with tentacles but no head."
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