Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan accuses Mark Zuckerberg of having ‘blood on his hands’
The Israeli Minister responsible for public safety has strongly criticised both Facebook and its Jewish founder Mark Zuckerberg for allowing the spread of online hatred among young Palestinians. Gilad Erdan said that the social media platform, used by 1.65 billion worldwide users every month , was undermining the work of the Israeli police by withholding information on terror threats.
In an appearance on Israel’s Hebrew-language Channel 2, Mr Erdan said: "Facebook today sabotages, it should be known, sabotages the work of the Israeli police, because when the Israeli police approach them, and it is regarding a resident of Judea and Samaria, Facebook does not co-operate." He added that the problem in these areas is that “Facebook does no?t recognize Israeli control there and is no?t prepared to turn over information.”
There has been anger in Israel over the fact that Facebook has often refused to remove content which openly calls for violence against Israelis. Last December an experiment by the Shurat Hadin Israel Law Centre saw the creation of two Facebook pages, one anti-Israel, one anti-Palestinian. Despite both pages posting violent imagery, when both were reported Facebook initially only shut down the anti-Palestinian one, stating that the anti-Israel page was “not in violation of Facebook’s rules”.
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