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'''Jew Watch''' is a website that claims to "report accurate information regarding ] ownership and control over ] and ]," and which describes its objective as "Keeping a Close Watch on Jewish Communities & Organizations Worldwide." It is owned and maintained by ]. While the ] maintains he is a member of the ]<ref name="splc">{{cite web
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* "Racists of all beliefs can find materials to their liking on the Internet. ... One such site, Jew Watch, contains articles and other writings on anti Semitic themes, with such titles as "World War Two Slave Labor Issues and Greedy Jewish Lawyers" and "The Rothschild Internationalist Zionist Banking One World Order Family"." World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. Preparatory Committee Second session. Geneva, 21 May-1 June 2001. Item 6 of the provisional agenda. Review of Reports, Studies and Other Documentation for the Preparatory Committee and the World Conference. United Nations General Assembly. A/CONF.189/PC.2/12. 27 April 2001
* "He runs Jew Watch, a wildly anti-Semitic, 6-year-old Web site that carries archives of conspiracy theories about Jews." {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813024758/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2004/fall/radical-radio |date=2012-08-13 }}, ], Fall 2004. Retrieved May 21, 2007.
* {{cite news | title = Google caught in Anti-Semitism flap | work = ] | first = David | last = Becker | date = 2004-04-07 | url = http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038_3-5186012.html | access-date = 2006-04-09 }}
* {{cite news | title = Google In Controversy Over Top-Ranking For Anti-Jewish Site | url = http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3345071 | work = ] | date = 2004-04-25 | first = Danny | last = Sullivan | access-date = 2006-08-08 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061017004331/http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3345071 | archive-date = 2006-10-17 }}
* "In fact, the No. 1 result for the search entry "Jew" turns out to be www.jewwatch.com. The fanatically anti-Semitic hate site is ranked first in relevance of more than 1.72 million Web pages ..." Joe Eskenazi. , '']'', March 19, 2004.
* "As previously reported, the anti-Semitic site Jew Watch used to be the first item returned from a Google search on the word "Jew," a result that attracted widespread criticism and several online protest campaigns." David Becker. , '']'', April 26, 2004. Retrieved May 21, 2007.
* "Money donated through multiple Web sites registered to Frank Weltner of St. Louis was redirected to a site that collected money for an anti-Semitic and racist organization, Nixon said ... Nixon said Weltner registered at least 10 Internet domain names with Katrina-related themes, such as donatekatrina.com and katrinafamilies.com. The Web sites showed photos of neighborhoods in rubble and families in peril, along with a pitch to donate. Those who clicked on a link to donate were redirected to a central Web site, InternetDonations.org., the same collection point for individuals pledging donations to JewWatch.com." {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722030733/http://ago.mo.gov/newsreleases/2006/102606b.htm |date=2012-07-22 }}, Attorney-General ] press release, October 26, 2006. Retrieved May 21, 2007.
* "Jew Watch organizes its anti-Semitic materials much in the same way a popular Web directory might group more benign information." {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225195221/http://www.adl.org/poisoning_web/black.asp |date=2008-12-25 }}, ]. Retrieved May 21, 2007.
* "Google's review comes a couple weeks after the Anti-Defamation League and online petitioners expressed concern over an anti-Semitic Web site, Jew Watch, showing up among the top results for the search term 'Jew.'" Verne Kopytoff. , '']'', April 23, 2004.
* "A New York real estate developer has launched an online petition to get an anti-Semitic site removed from Google's index after it came up as the first result when he did a search for the word 'Jew'." , '']'', April 7, 2004.
* "So it's ironic that an anti-Semitic website, Jewwatch.com, would find a host in Boca Raton. But it did." {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929082246/http://www.bocanews.com/index.php?src=news&prid=13745&category=Main%20Headline |date=2011-09-29 }}, '']'', January 5, 2006.
* "Although not mentioned in the Audit, two specific antisemitic web sites came to the attention of the Canadian Jewish community. Jew Watch, a vehemently antisemitic web site, was being listed by an Internet search engine under the 'Jewish Resources' section." {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210225250/http://www.bnaibrith.ca/publications/audit1998/audit1998-08.html |date=2012-02-10 }}, ]. Retrieved May 21, 2007.
* "In March, during a casual Web search, the 26-year-old real-estate investor accidentally found that Jew Watch, an anti-Semitic site, was the top Google result." John Brandon. , '']'', May 11, 2004. Retrieved May 21, 2007.
* "... even when they appear on the internet, the antisemitic extremes of Jew-watch.com and the ethnic boosterism of Jewhoo.com seem relics of an archaic time." Vincent Brook. ''You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture'', Rutgers University Press, 2006, {{ISBN|0-8135-3845-9}}, p. 232.
* "... Jew Watch (a hate site allegedly reporting Jewish monopoly, banking, and media control worldwide)." Eli M. Salzberger, Niva Elkin-Koren: ''Law, Economics and Cyberspace. The Effects of Cyberspace on the Economic Analysis of Law.'' Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004. {{ISBN|1-84064-669-1}}. p. 72
* "... an anti-Semitic website named 'Jew Watch.'" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019143040/http://www.hateontheinternet.com/PDF/GlobeArticleSept13.pdf |date=2007-10-19 }} by Kirk Makin. ''Globe and Mail'', September 13, 2006
* "Racist skinheads connect and reconnect online through a multitude of websites like Stormfront and Jew Watch, which are deep reservoirs of hate ..." Barry Howard Minkin: ''Ten Great Lies That Threaten Western Civilization'' Ten Great Lies, 2007. {{ISBN|0-9792904-0-6}}. p. 140.</ref>
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'''Jew Watch''' was an ]<ref name=AS/> website promoting ]<ref>Levy, Steven. , '']'', 26 April 2004, accessed 23 November 2010. {{subscription required}}</ref> and negative claims about ]. The claims included ] that ] and banking,<ref>Elkin-Koren, Niva; Salzberger, Eli M. (2004). , ], p.&nbsp;72.
* Also see, regarding media, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921101840/http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-controlledpress-folder.html |date=2012-09-21 }}, Jew Watch, accessed 23 November 2010.</ref> as well as accusations of Jewish involvement in terrorist groups. The site contained propaganda, according to Sam Varghese of '']'', similar to ].<ref>Varghese, Sam. , '']'', 7 April 2004, accessed 23 November 2010.</ref> It was widely considered a ].<ref name=AS/> Jew Watch received support from ], a ] and ] site.<ref>, '']'', 27 April 2004, accessed 23 November 2010.</ref> The site described itself as a "not-for-profit library for private study, scholarship, or research a close watch on Jewish Communities and organizations worldwide".<ref>Anderson, Jack; Cohn, Douglas. , '']'', 24 October 2000, p.&nbsp;134.</ref>

The site received media attention in April 2004 when it emerged as the first result in a ] ] for the word "]" and a petition was started to get the site removed from Google search results.<ref name="Wired1">Brandon, John. , '']'', 11 May 2004, accessed 23 November 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101012134604/http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/05/63380 |date=2010-10-12 }} 22 November 2010.</ref><ref name="RemoveJewWatch">, WhyNot Media, accessed 23 November 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718042910/http://www.whynotmedia.com/removejewwatch.html |date=2011-07-18 }} 23 November 2010.</ref> A scandal in 2006 involved solicitations for donations to aid victims of ] being redirected to Jew Watch.<ref name="ConsumerAffairs"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929094108/http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/mo_katrina_scam.html |date=2007-09-29 }} ConsumerAffairs. September 13, 2005</ref>

==Ownership==
Established in 1998,<ref>Finkelstein, Seth. , sethf.com, 4 June 2004, accessed 23 November 2010.</ref> the website was owned and maintained by Frank Weltner, a member of the ], a ] and ] organization.<ref name=splc>{{cite web
|title=Radical Radio. Neo-Nazi broadcasting from St. Louis AM station |title=Radical Radio. Neo-Nazi broadcasting from St. Louis AM station
|url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=500 |url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=500
|publisher=], Fall 2004 |publisher=], Fall 2004
|access-date=2006-08-08
|accessdate=2006-08-08}}</ref>, a ]/] organization, Weltner denies the charge.
|archive-date=2012-08-13
The website asserts that "Jew Watch is a Not-For-Profit Library for private study, scholarship, or research." Although the maintainers of the site insist that it is not a hate site, it is widely recognized as an ]<ref name="splc"/><ref>{{cite news| title = Google caught in Anti-Semitism flap | work = ] | first = David | last = Becker | date = ] | url = http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5186012.html | accessdate = 2006-04-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Google In Controversy Over Top-Ranking For Anti-Jewish Site | url = http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3345071 | work = ] | date = ] | first = Danny | last = Sullivan | accessdate = 2006-08-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813024758/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2004/fall/radical-radio
|title=JewWatch Profile |url=http://www.zionismontheweb.org/antizionism/jewwatch.htm |publisher=], 2007 |accessdate=2007-21-02}}</ref> website and has received much criticism from a wide range of organizations and individuals.
|url-status=dead
}}</ref><ref name="He Is A Nazi">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-history-jewwatch-frank-weltner-personal.html|title=Jewish History – Frank Weltner – Personal Statement|access-date=2007-04-02|publisher=Jew Watch|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623092748/http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-history-jewwatch-frank-weltner-personal.html|archive-date=2012-06-23|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Perlmutter">{{cite journal|last=Perlmutter|first=Dawn|date=Fall 2001 – Winter 2002|title=Skandalon 2001: The Religious Practices of Modern Satanists and Terrorists|journal=Anthropoetics|volume=7|issue=2|pages=1–26|issn=1083-7264|oclc=32874935|url=http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0702/skandalon.htm|access-date=2008-07-30|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709042042/http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0702/skandalon.htm|archive-date=2008-07-09}} "ne example is a ] web site called Jew Watch"</ref>


==Themes==
The site became notorious in ] when it emerged as the first result in a ] ] for the word "]." A second scandal in 2006 involved solicitations for donations to aid victims of ] being redirected to Jew Watch.
Jew Watch featured articles, videos, and ], organized in the form of a ]. Content was organized under topic headings such as "]", "]", "]", and "]s – Z.O.G."


Jew Watch claimed that Jews control the world's financial systems and media.<ref name=JewishBankingandFinance>{{cite web|last1=Weltner|first1=Frank|title=Jew Watch – Jewish Banking and Financial Manipulations|url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-jewishbankingandfinancialmanipulations-folder.html|website=jewwatch.com|publisher=Jew Watch|access-date=20 December 2014}}</ref><ref name=JewishMedia>{{cite web|last1=Frank|first1=Weltner|title=The Jews Who Rule Media|url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-domination-media.htm|website=jewwatch.com|publisher=Jew Watch|access-date=20 December 2014|quote=Jews Do Rule the Media. This means they can control what we hear, see, think, and largely believe.|archive-date=18 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218024021/http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-domination-media.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> It also claimed that the "All Anti-Christian Jewish Red ]" killed 100 million Christians in Russia from 1917 to 1945 under the orders of "], the Jewish Commissar of Commissars".<ref name="DeadChristians">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-occupiedgovernments-USSR.html#anchor19996|title=Jewish Occupied Governments – USSR – Jews and Communism|access-date=2007-03-20|publisher=Jew Watch|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070329062716/http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-occupiedgovernments-USSR.html#anchor19996|archive-date=2007-03-29|url-status=dead}}</ref> It said that global Jewry is the driving force behind both global ] and ].<ref name="JewsCapitalismCommunism">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-controlledpress-reports.html#anchor988507|title=Jewish Controlled Press – Reports by Historical Sources|access-date=2007-03-20|publisher=Jew Watch}}</ref> The site linked to others which speculate that Jews have committed or are planning ] against the ];<ref name="JewsGenocidePalestinian">{{Cite web|url=http://jewwatch.com/jew-genocide-palestinian.html|title=Jewish Genocidal Murders of Others – Palestinian|access-date=2007-03-20|publisher=Jew Watch|archive-date=2007-03-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070315071256/http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-genocide-palestinian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> the site also promoted ], maintaining that ] either never happened or was greatly exaggerated.<ref name="Holocaust">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-holocaust-lies-hoax-frauds-blackflagops-hoaxarchive.html|title=Jewish Holocaust – Media Lies – Frauds – Hoaxes|access-date=2007-03-20|publisher=JewWatch|archive-date=2007-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403073349/http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-holocaust-lies-hoax-frauds-blackflagops-hoaxarchive.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Overview==
Jew Watch features an archive of writings, articles, videos, and ], organized in the form of a Web directory. The material is organized under topic heads such as:


==Controversy==
*"Jewish Controlled Press"
*"Jewish Entertainment"
*"Jewish Banking & Financial Manipulations"
*"Jewish-Zionist-Soviet Anti-American Spies"
*"Jewish Communist Rulers & Killers"
*"Jewish Terrorists"
*"Zionist Occupied Governments"
*"Jewish Communists"
*"Jewish Atrocities"
Jew Watch claims that the United States is ruled by a "]," that ] was invented by the Jewish ] and was a Jewish plot to enslave the world, and that Jews control the world's financial systems and media {{fact}}. It also claims that the "All Anti-Christian Jewish Red Commisars" killed 100 million Christians in Russia from 1917-1945 under the orders of "Trotsky, the Jewish Commissar of ]" {{fact}}. It also makes the suggestion that global Jewry is the driving force behind both global ] and ] {{fact}}. The site links to others which speculate that Jews have committed or are planning ] against ]s and against the ] people; the site also promotes ], maintaining that ] either never happened or was greatly exaggerated {{fact}}.


===Google Search results===
Jew Watch also has a large list of names of celebrities and historical figures which it claims are Jewish or of Jewish descent -- for example, it claims that individuals such as ], ], ], and ] were Jewish {{fact}}. The website also condemns ] for being a "Jewish Religion."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-religions-christianity.html | title=Jewish Religions - Christianity | publisher=Jew Watch | accessdate=2006-04-08}}</ref>
Many news sources, ]s, and general information sites linked to Jew Watch creating a ] that led to the site being the first search result for the term "Jew." In May 2004, Steven Weinstock launched an online petition on RemoveJewWatch.com to remove Jew Watch from Google. By mid-2004 the site had collected over 125,000 signatures.<ref name="Wired1" /><ref name ="RemoveJewWatch" />


In response to complaints, including one from the ] (ADL), Google added an explanation to searches for the site. They said their results are automatically ranked by computer ]s, and that they do not approve of any of the results.<ref>Daniels, Jessie (2009). , ], p.&nbsp;170.
The site has a number of quotations without references or citations which it purports are from the ] or various Jewish figures {{fact}}.


* For the ADL letter to ], see: {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041122010942/http://www.adl.org/internet/google_letter.asp|date=2004-11-22}}, Anti-Defamation League, 21 April 2004, accessed 23 November 2010.
Jew Watch purports to expose what it calls "Jewish crimes against humanity" {{fact}}. Its stated position is that Jews are responsible for every major war in the last 150 years, that Jews hate all of the other races and religions of humanity (including White Christians, Blacks, and Muslims) and dominate the world by proxy through the United States {{fact}}. In addition, the website claims that the former Soviet Union, the United States, the former Soviet CIS states, Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, and France are "]s."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-occupiedgovernments-folder.html | title=Jewish Occupied Governments | publisher=Jew Watch | accessdate=2006-04-08}}</ref>
* For Google's explanation, see: 2004-06-07 at the Wayback Machine ], accessed 23 November 2010.</ref>


In December 2004, ]'s Sandy Starr addressed the issues of ]:
==Google controversy==
<blockquote>When it transpired that the anti-Semitic website Jew Watch ranked highest in the search engine Google's results for the search term "Jew", a Remove Jew Watch campaign was established, to demand that Google remove the offending website from its listings. Fortunately for the principle of free speech, Google did not capitulate to this particular demand ... Forced to act on its own initiative, Remove Jew Watch successfully used Googlebombing ... Better still would have been either a proper contest of ideas between Jew Watch and Remove Jew Watch, or alternatively a decision that Jew Watch was beneath contempt and should simply be ignored. Not every crank and extremist warrants attention, even if they do occasionally manage to spoof search engine rankings.<ref>Starr, Sandy. , p. 140, accessed 18 August 2011, in , ], 16 December 2004.</ref></blockquote>
The increasing publicity has resulted in many news sources, ]s, and general information sites to link to Jew Watch, and thus created a ]. In May 2004, ] launched an online petition to remove Jew Watch from Google. "When performing a search for the word 'Jew' on Google, the first Web site listed is JewWatch.com, a site that has been notorious for being anti-Semitic," Weinstock wrote in a widely disseminated e-mail.


In 2013, Jew Watch was still appearing on the first pages of Google Search results for the term "Jew."<ref>{{cite news |date=8 April 2013 |title=Anti-Semitism in information era |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4365361,00.html |newspaper=YnetNews }}</ref>
"In order for Google to remove this, they would need a petition of over 50,000 requests," Weinstock said. He set up an online petition site called RemoveJewWatch.com. Within a few days 2,000 signatures had been added to the list. By mid-2004 the site had collected over 125,000 signatures.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63380,00.html | title = Dropping the Bomb on Google
| first = John | last = Brandon | work = ] | date = ] | accessdate = 2007-01-01 }}</ref> RemoveJewWatch.com went offline, but a preserved versions remains.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.whynotmedia.com/removejewwatch.html | title = RemoveJewWatch.com | work = WhyNot Media | accessdate = 2007-01-01 }}</ref>


===Hurricane Katrina solicitations===
Google's response, however, has been a sponsored link for the search term since 2004 which explains how Google results are automatically ranked by computer algorithms.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.google.com/explanation.html | title = An explanation of our search results | work = ] | date = 2004 | accessdate = 2007-01-01 }}</ref>
St. Louis City Circuit Judge Julian L. Bush permanently barred Frank Weltner and his site InternetDonation.org from soliciting funds in Missouri for charitable purposes after it was revealed by State Attorney General ] that Frank Weltner had set up multiple websites soliciting funds for victims of ] and then redirected those wishing to donate to his site that collected money for Jew Watch.<ref name="ConsumerAffairs" /> A press release from the Attorney General said:


<blockquote>Anyone who takes advantage of the generosity and compassion of his fellow citizens in an attempt to fund his hate-filled Web site should never again be in the position to solicit charitable funds from well-meaning ]ans.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nixon obtains permanent injunction against JewWatch.com operator who deceptively solicited Katrina donations |url=http://www.ago.mo.gov/newsreleases/2006/102606b.htm |publisher=], 2006 |access-date=2007-02-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722030733/http://ago.mo.gov/newsreleases/2006/102606b.htm |archive-date=2012-07-22 }}</ref></blockquote>
] writer ] claimed that Weinstock's efforts resulted in a "censor-fest" of Jew Watch and insisted "Our race deserves to live in freedom, and no trickster, thug, or con man can stop us from achieving that goal. We are going to win."<ref>{{cite news | first=Kevin | last=Strom | date = ] | url = http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=2728 | title = The Censorious Race | publisher = ] | accessdate = 2006-04-08}}</ref> John Goth, in the same publication, described his "disgust" as a "loyal White man" at "the recent Jewish attacks on ] and particularly, on JewWatch.com."<ref>{{cite news | first = John | last = Goth | date = ] | url = http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=2712 | title = The Jew Watch Saga Can Be Fun | publisher = National Vanguard | accessdate = 2006-04-08}}</ref>


==See also==
To this day Jew Watch's ranking fluctuates in the top three to five positions for the search term "Jew" on the American Google site, along with two ] articles for "]" and "]" {{fact}}.
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==The Katrina controversy==
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St. Louis City Circuit Judge Julian L. Bush permanently barred Frank Weltner and his site InternetDonation.org from soliciting funds in Missouri for charitable purposes after it was revealed by State Attorney General Jay Nixon that Frank Weltner had set up multiple websites soliciting funds for Katrina victims and then redirected those wishing to donate to his site that collected money for Jew Watch <ref>{{cite web |title=JewWatch Profile |url=http://www.zionismontheweb.org/antizionism/jewwatch.htm |publisher=], 2007 |accessdate=2007-21-02}}</ref>. A press release from the Attorney General said: "Anyone who takes advantage of the generosity and compassion of his fellow citizens in an attempt to fund his hate-filled Web site should never again be in the position to solicit charitable funds from well-meaning Missourians" <ref>{{cite web |title=Nixon obtains permanent injuntion against JewWatch.com operator who deceptively solicited Katrina donations |url=http://www.ago.mo.gov/newsreleases/2006/102606b.htm |publisher=], 2006 |accessdate=2007-21-02}}</ref>.


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==Further reading==
* ]. , '']'' '''57''' 12: 1581–1589, October 2006.
* Finkelstein, Seth. , sethf.com, 30 March 2004, accessed 23 November 2010.
* Finkelstein, Seth. , sethf.com, accessed 23 November 2010.
* Kopytoff, Verne. , '']'', 23 April 2004, accessed 23 November 2010.
* Romirowsky, Asaf. , '']'', 25 October 2007, accessed 23 November 2010.


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Jew Watch was an antisemitic website promoting Holocaust denial and negative claims about Jews. The claims included allegations of a conspiracy that Jews control the media and banking, as well as accusations of Jewish involvement in terrorist groups. The site contained propaganda, according to Sam Varghese of The Age, similar to that used in Nazi Germany. It was widely considered a hate site. Jew Watch received support from Stormfront, a white nationalist and neo-Nazi site. The site described itself as a "not-for-profit library for private study, scholarship, or research a close watch on Jewish Communities and organizations worldwide".

The site received media attention in April 2004 when it emerged as the first result in a Google search for the word "Jew" and a petition was started to get the site removed from Google search results. A scandal in 2006 involved solicitations for donations to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina being redirected to Jew Watch.

Ownership

Established in 1998, the website was owned and maintained by Frank Weltner, a member of the National Alliance, a white nationalist and white separatist organization.

Themes

Jew Watch featured articles, videos, and links, organized in the form of a Web directory. Content was organized under topic headings such as "Jewish Controlled Press", "Jewish Banking & Financial Manipulations", "Jewish Communist Rulers & Killers", and "Zionist Occupied Governments – Z.O.G."

Jew Watch claimed that Jews control the world's financial systems and media. It also claimed that the "All Anti-Christian Jewish Red Commissars" killed 100 million Christians in Russia from 1917 to 1945 under the orders of "Trotsky, the Jewish Commissar of Commissars". It said that global Jewry is the driving force behind both global capitalism and communism. The site linked to others which speculate that Jews have committed or are planning genocide against the Palestinian people; the site also promoted Holocaust denial, maintaining that the Holocaust either never happened or was greatly exaggerated.

Controversy

Google Search results

Many news sources, weblogs, and general information sites linked to Jew Watch creating a Google bomb that led to the site being the first search result for the term "Jew." In May 2004, Steven Weinstock launched an online petition on RemoveJewWatch.com to remove Jew Watch from Google. By mid-2004 the site had collected over 125,000 signatures.

In response to complaints, including one from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Google added an explanation to searches for the site. They said their results are automatically ranked by computer algorithms, and that they do not approve of any of the results.

In December 2004, OSCE's Sandy Starr addressed the issues of freedom of speech:

When it transpired that the anti-Semitic website Jew Watch ranked highest in the search engine Google's results for the search term "Jew", a Remove Jew Watch campaign was established, to demand that Google remove the offending website from its listings. Fortunately for the principle of free speech, Google did not capitulate to this particular demand ... Forced to act on its own initiative, Remove Jew Watch successfully used Googlebombing ... Better still would have been either a proper contest of ideas between Jew Watch and Remove Jew Watch, or alternatively a decision that Jew Watch was beneath contempt and should simply be ignored. Not every crank and extremist warrants attention, even if they do occasionally manage to spoof search engine rankings.

In 2013, Jew Watch was still appearing on the first pages of Google Search results for the term "Jew."

Hurricane Katrina solicitations

St. Louis City Circuit Judge Julian L. Bush permanently barred Frank Weltner and his site InternetDonation.org from soliciting funds in Missouri for charitable purposes after it was revealed by State Attorney General Jay Nixon that Frank Weltner had set up multiple websites soliciting funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina and then redirected those wishing to donate to his site that collected money for Jew Watch. A press release from the Attorney General said:

Anyone who takes advantage of the generosity and compassion of his fellow citizens in an attempt to fund his hate-filled Web site should never again be in the position to solicit charitable funds from well-meaning Missourians.

See also

References

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