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| name = The Jewish Internet<br>Defense Force (JIDF)
| name = The Jewish Internet<br>Defense Force (JIDF)
| logo = [[Image:jidf logo.jpg|200px]]
| logo = [[Image:jidf logo.jpg|200px]]
| caption = Logo of JIDF
| caption = Logo of JIDF
| type = [[Internet activism|Online activism]], [[Israel advocacy]]
| type = [[Internet activism|Online activism]], [[Israel advocacy]]
| url = [http://www.thejidf.org/ www.TheJIDF.org]
| url = [http://www.thejidf.org/ www.TheJIDF.org]
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==Facebook intervention==
==Facebook intervention==
[[Image:JIDF_FB_Sample_2.jpg|thumb|270px|Example of [[Facebook]] content that JIDF members try to remove]]

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."<ref name="Playing Politics on Facebook"/> Several [[Facebook group]]s formed to support or oppose this removal,
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."<ref name="Playing Politics on Facebook"/> Several [[Facebook group]]s formed to support or oppose this removal,
including ''"'Palestine' Is not a country ... Delist it from Facebook as a country!"'' and
including ''"'Palestine' Is not a country ... Delist it from Facebook as a country!"'' and
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location=Jerusalem |
location=Jerusalem |
date=2008-04-01 | url=http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=2235&TTL=Online_Antisemitism_2.0._ |
date=2008-04-01 | url=http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=2235&TTL=Online_Antisemitism_2.0._ |
accessdate=2008-08-14 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Andre Oboler|title=Facing up to the 'Facebook' dilemma|url=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1202211059878|publisher=[[JPost|The Jerusalem Post]]|date=2008-02-05 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Tamar Snyder| title=Latest Front In Mideast Wars: Wikipedia: Pro-Israel advocates have been banned from contributing articles on the popular encyclopedia, but battle rages. |url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c39_a9469/News/International.html|publisher=[[The Jewish Week]]| date=2008-05-14 }}</ref> The JIDF claimed the group "actively promoted hatred, violence, murder and genocide."<ref name="jpost1">{{cite news|
accessdate=2008-08-14 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Andre Oboler|title=Facing up to the 'Facebook' dilemma|url=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1202211059878|publisher=[[JPost|The Jerusalem Post]]|date=2008-02-05 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Tamar Snyder| title=Latest Front In Mideast Wars: Wikipedia: Pro-Israel advocates have been banned from contributing articles on the popular encyclopedia, but battle rages. |url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c39_a9469/News/International.html|publisher=[[The Jewish Week]]| date=2008-05-14 }}</ref>
author=Stephanie Rubenstein|title=Jewish Internet Defense Force 'seizes control' of anti-Israel Facebook group|
url=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331137728&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull|publisher=[[JPost|The Jerusalem Post]]|
location=Jerusalem|
date=2008-07-30 }}</ref>


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 considered to be "legitimate political discourse".<ref name="JIDF_telgraph">{{cite news|title=Facebook: 'Anti-Semitic' group hijacked by Jewish force|
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 against "legitimate political discourse".<ref name="JIDF_telgraph">{{cite news|title=Facebook: 'Anti-Semitic' group hijacked by Jewish force|
url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2478773/Facebook-Anti-semitic-group-destroyed-by-Israeli-hackers.html|
url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2478773/Facebook-Anti-semitic-group-destroyed-by-Israeli-hackers.html|
publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |
publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |
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| accessdate=2008-08-23}}
| accessdate=2008-08-23}}
See also "Jewish Activists Hack Anti-Semitic Facebook Group" [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/150523 Arutz Sheva] 7-27-08.
See also "Jewish Activists Hack Anti-Semitic Facebook Group" [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/150523 Arutz Sheva] 7-27-08.
</ref> Appletree added, [Facebook] "is negligent in going after these pro-[[terror]] and anti-[[Semitic]] groups praising [[Adolf Hitler]]."<ref name="Jewish Activist Battl"/> Since the JIDF intervention, the Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism (CFCA) has highlighted the issue by including a ''[[The Daily Telegraph|Telegraph]]'' article on the topic in its archive.<ref>{{cite paper| title= Israel - Facebook: 'Anti-Semitic' group hijacked by Jewish force" | publisher=CFCA Archives | url= http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/struggle/33140/Israel_-_Facebook%3A_%27Anti-Semitic%27_group_hijacked_by_Jewish_force | accessdate=2008-08-18 }}</ref>
</ref> Appletree added, [Facebook] "is aggressive about [[pornography]] and people abusing the site's privileges, but negligent in going after these pro-[[terror]] and anti-[[Semitic]] groups praising [[Adolf Hitler]]."<ref name="Jewish Activist Battl"/> Since the JIDF intervention, the Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism (CFCA) has highlighted the issue by including a ''[[The Daily Telegraph|Telegraph]]'' article on the topic in its archive.<ref>{{cite paper| title= Israel - Facebook: 'Anti-Semitic' group hijacked by Jewish force" | publisher=CFCA Archives | url= http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/struggle/33140/Israel_-_Facebook%3A_%27Anti-Semitic%27_group_hijacked_by_Jewish_force | accessdate=2008-08-18 }}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 11:22, 5 September 2008

The Jewish Internet
Defense Force (JIDF)
File:Jidf logo.jpg
Type of site
Online 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.[2] Founded by David Appletree, a Jewish activist, the group has focused its attention specifically on websites like Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, and Google Earth.[3][4][5][6]

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 Second Intifada. It then began operating on various Web sites, including Facebook, to spread news about Israel and Jewish issues."[6] The organization's web site was created in May 2008[7] 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.[8]

Facebook intervention

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."[9] 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."[9] 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.[10][11][12][13][14]

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 against "legitimate political discourse".[5] The "Israel is not a country" group continued to grow, and in July 2008 JIDF "seize[d] control" of it.[6] According to David Appletree of the JIDF, "The terms say that 'one cannot ... make available any content that [Facebook] deem[s] to be harmful, ... hateful, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable.'"[3] Appletree added, [Facebook] "is aggressive about pornography and people abusing the site's privileges, but negligent in going after these pro-terror and anti-Semitic groups praising Adolf Hitler."[3] 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.[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Jewish Internet Defense Force (mainpage)". JIDF. 2008-08-23. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
  2. ^ "JIDF Response to Wikipedia". 2008-08-05.
  3. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b Moore, Matthew (2008-07-31). "Facebook: 'Anti-Semitic' group hijacked by Jewish force". London: The Telegraph.
  6. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b 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: Wikipedia: 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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