Web 2.0 – The Latest Front in the War on Terror (Update)

Update 8/1/08: The group admins operating from Beirut, Lebanon, have re-gained control of their anti-Israel Facebook Group. They now have a novel-length explanation in their group description rationalizing their hatred of Israel. Interestingly, the pro-Israel members who took over the site have not yet been eliminated as members of the group.

One thing that dumbfounds me about all of this is that the Facebook administrators seem to be simply taking a spectator view on this whole situation, and watching the pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups fight it out, using Facebook as a war zone. In a situation that is quickly deteriorating into anarchy, Facebook has allowed the anti-Israel group to clearly violate Facebook’s terms of use by posting vile untruths and even death threats toward Israelis and Jews. It also sat on the sidelines as if helpless while the Israelis (after at least 18 months of pleading for Facebook to simply enforce its own rules) took matters into its own hands and openly and publicly hacked into the anti-Israel Facebook Group and made a mockery of it. Now the hate-group has its site back, and still…no comment or statement from Facebook.

This is a big mistake by Facebook! The safety of its members is now routinely being violated, and its security has been compromised. I have been an outspoken supporter of Facebook as being the premier place for conservatives to network online, but if it is in the process of going the way of Digg.com, becoming a haven for anarchists and cyber-thugs, I will not be able to continue to use or recommend the site. I sincerely hope that Facebook is in the process of revising its methods of enforcing its own rules and of shoring up its security. If you’re on Facebook, and you feel similarly, I encourage you to check out this group.

From the Facebook Terms of Use:

…You agree not to use the Service or the Site to…upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable…intimidate or harass another…upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available content that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party, or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national or international law…(more)

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Original post, 07/30/08: There has been a group on Facebook for a couple of years, called “Israel is Not a Country… …Delist it from Facebook as a Country.” If you go there, now, it looks very much like a spoof site. But that’s because it has been taken over by a group called the Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF), which has changed it’s logo, admins, and description, and closed the group to new membership. It has also managed to deleted over half of the original 48,000+ members.

Is this legal?

According to the JIDF, it is acting “with the advice of legal counsel and within the confines of the law.”

Why bother? Didn’t the Anti-Israel site have “Freedom of Speech?”

Well, keep in mind that Facebook is a private, not a government entity…so “free speech” is granted only as long as the Facebook administrators allow it to be taken. The new description of the group explains a little of why this was done: Read more

The Path to Hitler’s “Final Solution”

…from Kafir Alalazoo:

The path to Hitler’s “final solution to the Jewish question” has branched and deviated since his death, but it’s fundamental principle remains the same.

Antisemitism did not end with WWII, and it’s seen a fresh resurgence in recent years. While some might have you believe that talk of antisemitism is merely a ploy on the part of Jews to divert attention or curry some advantage, the threat it poses cannot be ignored.

In an age of rogue nations armed with WMD, a worldwide Islamic jihad and the resurgence of various hard-left and hard-right militias, how long before someone will successfully enact Hitler’s ‘final solution’?

This video is dedicated to the men and women of the Israeli Defense Forces.

(Hat-tip, JIDF)