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The Jewish Internet
Defense Force (JIDF)
File:Jidf logo.jpg
Type of siteOnline activism, Israel advocacy
URLwww.TheJIDF.org

The Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF) is an online organization that seeks to remove material from the Internet which its members believe promotes or praises terror and racial hatred, in particular, sites they deem to be antisemitic and anti-Israel in nature. Founded by David Appletree, a Jewish activist, the group has focused its attention specifically on websites like Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, and Google Earth.

Organization

According to the JIDF, the organization "formed as a grassroots effort in 2000, mainly to mount mass e-mail campaigns, in response to the outbreak of the Second Intifada, a Palestinian uprising which began in September of that year. It then began operating on various Web sites, including Facebook, to spread news about Israel and Jewish issues." The JIDF also "created a Facebook group entitled "FACEBOOK: Why do you aid and abet terrorist organizations?" The organization's web site was created in May 2008 and the first press references to the "Jewish Internet Defense Force" appeared shortly thereafter. The JIDF encourages e-mail campaigns to the media to inform them about the issues they find online, and to site administrators of social networking websites to inform them about content which the JIDF deems to be objectionable and contrary to the corresponding acceptable use policies.

Facebook intervention

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During 2007, a controversy on Facebook was reported involving the removal of the Palestine option from "the drop-down list of places members can use to show where they live." Several Facebook groups formed to support or oppose this removal, including "'Palestine' Is not a country ... Delist it from Facebook as a country!" and "Israel is not a country! Delist it from Facebook as a country". Matt Hicks of Facebook responded by saying: "As long as the groups meet our terms of use, they can stay up. But we encourage users to report anything that is racist or objectionable." Content found in the Israel is not a country! Delist it from Facebook as a country group was described as antisemitic by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), The Jewish Week, and Andre Oboler, a social media researcher. According to the JIDF, the group "actively promoted hatred, violence, murder and genocide."

Despite what the JIDF described as "thousands of user complaints over the course of eighteen months", Facebook declined to shut the groups down, saying it did not take action what it described as "legitimate political discourse". The "Israel is not a country" group continued to grow, and in July 2008 JIDF "seize control" of it. According to David Appletree of the JIDF, "The terms say that 'one cannot ... make available any content that deem to be harmful, ... hateful, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable.'" Appletree added, Facebook is "negligent in going after these pro-terror and anti-Semitic groups praising Adolf Hitler." Since the JIDF intervention, the Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism (CFCA) has highlighted the issue by including a Telegraph article on the topic in its archive.

See also

References

  1. "The Jewish Internet Defense Force (mainpage)". JIDF. 2008-08-23. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
  2. "JIDF Response to Misplaced Pages". 2008-08-05.
  3. ^ Morrison, Sarah (2008-03-04). "Jewish Activist Battles For Israel on Facebook". Israel National News. Retrieved 2008-08-23. Cite error: The named reference "Jewish Activist Battl" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  4. Morrison, Sarah (2008-07-27). "Jewish Activists Hack Anti-Semitic Facebook Group". Israel National News. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
  5. ^ Moore, Matthew (2008-07-31). "Facebook: 'Anti-Semitic' group hijacked by Jewish force". London: The Telegraph.
  6. ^ Stephanie Rubenstein (2008-07-30). "Jewish Internet Defense Force 'seizes control' of anti-Israel Facebook group". Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Post.
  7. "WHOIS recordfor "thejidf.org"". DomainTools. August 21, 2008.
  8. "Sample E-mail Activism Letter". 2008-05-20.
  9. ^ Zerbisias, Antonia (May 3, 2007). "Playing Politics on Facebook". Toronto: The Star.
  10. "Help ADL fight the next generation of online extremism". ADL. Retrieved 2008-08-18. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. Tamar Snyder (2008-02-20). "Anti-Semitism 2.0 Going Largely Unchallenged". The Jewish Week.
  12. Andre Oboler (2008-04-01). "Online Antisemitism 2.0. "Social Antisemitism" on the "Social Web"". Jerusalem: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Retrieved 2008-08-14. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. Andre Oboler (2008-02-05). "Facing up to the 'Facebook' dilemma". The Jerusalem Post.
  14. Tamar Snyder (2008-05-14). "Latest Front In Mideast Wars: Misplaced Pages: Pro-Israel advocates have been banned from contributing articles on the popular encyclopedia, but battle rages". The Jewish Week.
  15. "Israel - Facebook: 'Anti-Semitic' group hijacked by Jewish force"". CFCA Archives. Retrieved 2008-08-18. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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