JIDF

As I mentioned yesterday, the leader of the JIDF, David Appletree, was removed from Facebook today as expected. This article does a great job of explaining why this is SERIOUSLY NOT OK!!!

The JIDF (you can check their website out by clicking on me) is an organization aimed towards removing anti-semitism from the Internet, a vast task as so many people post anti-semitic thoughts on the Internet, and their leader, David Appletree, is an incredibly brave person for the work he does. As a result of the work he does, he receives death threats and as a result needs to keep his identity protected, something which Facebook was willing to accept at one point, but apparently no more.

What's even more shocking is that Facebook took down not only David's Facebook page, but threatened other Jewish organizations as well. Meanwhile they have not approached anti-Israel and Holocaust denying pages found on their site about their identification.

It's instances like this that shock me and disgust me. I have always had a love hate relationship with Facebook, but after going to Israel and making Israeli friends, and especially now that I'm moving, I've been using Facebook a lot to keep in touch with people and hopefully in the future ask any questions I may have about moving. So right when I start to really use Facebook, something like this happens where I just don't want to be even associated with a site that can do something like this.

I hope that I can compel some people to act on David's behalf- I think Facebook is sick of me because I've already sent them a bunch of e-mails supporting David and the JIDF. Facebook should be a safe haven where everyone should be friends, not a means to spread hatred; David's work prevented this from happening, and I hope now that all of his hard work is not reversed because of some really inexplicable move by Facebook.

Done ranting. Lehit. :)