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Facebook sued by Israeli group over Palestinian attacks

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facebook users iran in jailAn Israeli rights group is suing Facebook for $1bn on behalf of families of victims of Palestinian attacks.

The Shurat Hadin group says Facebook violates the US Anti-Terrorism Act by allowing militant groups such as Hamas a platform for spreading violence.

Hamas called the lawsuit an Israeli attempt to blackmail Facebook.

The victims cited in the case are all American, including Taylor Force, 28, who was stabbed to death while visiting Israel in March.

The others are dual Israeli-US nationals who died in attacks in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank between 2014 and 2016.

The suit, filed with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, argues the platform “knowingly provided material support and resources to Hamas… facilitat(ing) this terrorist group’s ability to communicate, recruit members, plan and carry out attacks, and strike fear in its enemies”.

Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, accused Israel of trying to turn it into a spy tool against Palestinians.

He said some Israeli politicians and soldiers had “expressed pride at the killing of Palestinians” on Facebook and other social media.

“The real test for the owners of Facebook is to reject this pressure,” he said.

Israel says Palestinian incitement on social media has fuelled a wave of attacks since October, which have killed 35 Israelis and four people of other nationalities.

A report on the Israel-Palestinian conflict last week by the Quartet group of international mediators identified “the spreading of incitement to violence on social media” by Palestinians as a key issue.

“Hamas and other radical factions are responsible for the most explicit and widespread forms of incitement. These groups use media outlets to glorify terrorism and openly call for violence against Jews, including instructing viewers on how to carry out stabbings,” the report said.

Asked to comment on the Shurat Hadin case by the Reuter news agency, Facebook’s Israeli PR firm said the company “does not respond on any issue currently subject to legal procedure”.

The lawsuit was brought under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1992 which prohibits American businesses from providing any material support, including services, to designated terrorist groups and their leaders.

 

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22 responses to “Facebook sued by Israeli group over Palestinian attacks”

  1. Gary Lawrence Avatar
    Gary Lawrence

    The Democrats held a sit-in at the US Congress in protest of their liberal gun laws, so many Americans call for the tightening of gun control after every mass murder, if only they were not blinded by the media today, they would feel the need from similar outcries, for a review of US military support to Israel after all the crimes committed against Palestinian civilians.

    The Foreign Assistance Act allows president Obama to “Substantially reduce or terminate security assistance to any government which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.”

    Have you heard, IT, kills boys and girls and, IT, hides their bodies? Wait till you know what, IT, is. It is not a clown, though Netanyahu’s smile is a clown’s smile, the IDF soldiers of Israel kill people, woman, men, and children. If the shot doesn’t kill them IMMEDIATELY , they wait for DEATH. They hide the bodies so the suffering relatives can’t have closure and the need for revenge. If elected President, Hillary Clinton promises impunity for Israel as Obama has, indeed and in silence.

    It is beyond belief, my own country, the United States of America could be the backbone of such crimes against humanity. Bernie Sanders is the only one to crack the tightest sealed horrors of LIFE in Palestine, a very small crack for media consumption. And who would believe that President Obama, John Kerry and most all of the U.S. press would provide cover for, IT….

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      Here Ziotrolls are incapable of rational discussion they insult on top of lies and denials..no monitors; exemple for the world to see.
      “YK-Hind Abyad •
      Your parents created you. That’s really scary. Or were you conceived in a test tube by some crazy scientist? 🙂
      2 • Reply•Share ›”

      1. Y K Avatar
        Y K

        “Here Ziotrolls are incapable of rational discussion ”
        Do you even want a “rational discussion” with the “Ziotrolls”? I thought you wanted them all dead. 🙂

        1. Omega Avatar
          Omega

          Is Scradje your “mini-me” or lover by any chance?

    2. Y K Avatar
      Y K

      What’s with the capslock, mate? Is it stuck? Or are you one of those unfortunates suffering from the CAPSLOCK SYNDROME?

      Suggested reading: Frederick von Glahn, “The Use and ABUSE of CAPSLOCK as Precursor and SYMPTOM of Mental ILLNESS” (Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Psychiatry, New Brunswick University, 1925).

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        Ask Rudzy

        1. Omega Avatar
          Omega

          Or FAGGOTNAZI and his dozens of usernames on TDS.

          1. Rudy1947 Avatar
            Rudy1947

            I’m Spartacus.

          2. Y K Avatar
            Y K

            He’s an earnest moron without a shred of self-doubt or self-reflection. The worst kind. 🙂

      2. Omega Avatar
        Omega

        Agreed, just ask FAGGOTNAZI and his dozens of usernames on TDS.

      3. Omega Avatar
        Omega

        You’re bothered by truth – CAPSLOCK or NOT.

        About CAPSLOCK – Agreed, just ask FAGGOTNAZI and his dozens of usernames on TDS.

  2. Gary Lawrence Avatar
    Gary Lawrence

    The nations of the world have shown that in their minds might makes right with its inability to punish Israel,in any manner at all. The insight by North Korea has proven right. They are 2nd to Israel in human rights abuses and have successfully developed the bomb and soon the ability to reach us in the United States.

    THE TRUE REALITY FOR PALESTINIANS IS FAR WORSE THAN THE SO CALLED LIES FROM ABBAS. Those who do nothing and need more than what already exist ARE AS SICK AS THE REPUBLICANS IN THE UNITED STATES. NOTHING IS GOING TO BE WORSE, I HOPE, THAN OPERATION PROTECTIVE EDGE. I BELIEVE THEY ARE ALL COWARDS. NORTH KOREA CREEPS CLOSER AND CLOSER AND NETANYAHU KILLS MORE AND MORE.

  3. Oh Yeah Avatar
    Oh Yeah

    Hamas called the lawsuit an Israeli attempt to blackmail Facebook, what a joke.

    An Israeli attempt… when the lawsuit is done by the joined forces of the families of American victims who died in the attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Israel and the West Bank.

    Facebook is the creation of Mark Elliot Zuckerberg.
    Zuckerberg comes from parents who practice Judaism, but sees himself as an atheist.

    Zuckerberg can both read and write in five languages ​​: English, French , Latin , classical Greek and Hebrew.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      So … Zuckerberg is a Zionist?
      At any rate, “groups use media outlets to glorify terrorism and openly call for violence against Jews”, is thus not correct … it’s only against Zionists, I’d suppose.

      1. Oh Yeah Avatar
        Oh Yeah

        How can an atheist be a Zionist?

        Unfortunately I can’t answer you if he is a Zionist, simply because until yesterday I even did not know he can both read and write in five languages​​: English, French , Latin , classical Greek and Hebrew.

        I know he was Jewish but didn’t know that he sees himself as an atheist.

        As to Facebook – I don’t like this forum since this forum is for flasher, there everyone exposing themselves with disastrous results.
        Other community users use its for their own ends – LIVE.

        1. Omega Avatar
          Omega

          How can an atheist be a Zionist?

          Considering that Zionism is a political ideology, it’s possible.

          1. Rudy1947 Avatar
            Rudy1947

            Damn right.

      2. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        Zionists are atheist like the Rothschilds.

    2. Omega Avatar
      Omega

      Zuckerberg can both read and write in five languages ​​: English, French , Latin , classical Greek and Hebrew.

      Correcto mundo, he claims he does …

      On his college application, Zuckerberg claimed that he could read and write French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek.

  4. Gary Lawrence Avatar
    Gary Lawrence

    A racial justice scholar and activist Cornel West, one of, Bernie
    Sanders’ five appointees to the Democratic Party’s platform drafting
    committee accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “war
    crimes” in the continued occupation of Palestinian territories.Yesh
    Din, Israeli legal and human rights advocacy group , reported a
    Israeli soldier has been charged and convicted of homicide after more
    than 260 investigations into Palestinian fatalities since the second
    Palestinian uprising in 2000.
    In that case, a military court convicted a former sergeant of
    manslaughter for the 2003 shooting death of a British activist,
    Tom Hurndall, 21, who was working with Palestinians in the Gaza
    Strip. As with Rachel Corrie, the Palestinian was murdered.
    He was a “neutralized” resistance fighter.
    Is it time to take action against Netanyahu’s Israel??? Stephen
    Hawking says, “anyone can answer big questions.”
    Stephen Hawking has joined BDS and will not speak in Israel. Stop a
    mad-man, who will keep replacing those who have a conscience, with
    those hardliners who have war crimes, as a mindset, like himself.

  5. Gary Lawrence Avatar
    Gary Lawrence

    KERRY’S EX WAR BUDDIES ARE SAYING, “we TOLD YOU!! “, HE HAS SOMEONE’S
    BACK AND IT SHOULD NEVER BE TO PUT US OR THE WORLD ON THE SIDE OF A
    LIAR, I SAY. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NEVER WANTED TO GIVE HIM OR OBAMA
    SUCH DISGRACEFUL POWER.
    Rachel Corrie was murdered and so many more innocent people. Israel
    and our political leaders hide the truth, a conscience is shared by
    every human being on this planet?
    WAR CRIMES, COVERED UP BY THE U S, AND KERRY WHO STILL STANDS AND
    PRETENDS TO HAVE CREDIBILITY AS AN HONEST BROKER IN THE WORLD, FAR
    FROM IT. America must realize the need to be an honest broker,
    honest member the nations of the world, and as a friend to Israel,
    honesty is the best policy. It is way, way past time to stop the
    apartheid state of Israel. Our politicians shouldn’t wait till the
    great minds of the world join BDS, minds like Steven Hawking, to
    acknowledge the facts on the ground are real. Occupation and
    extrajudicial killings, even of american citizens, who have more
    courage than Kerry or Obama.

  6. Gary Lawrence Avatar
    Gary Lawrence

    Unfortunately Hillary Clinton may do what the New York Governor has done and legislate laws that take away our civil rights with respect to BDS a nonviolent organization attempting to free the Palestinians from a brutal occupation.
    I FEAR THE ISRAELIS WILL ASSASSINATE MR Barghouti, WHO IS A BRILLIANT AND ARTICULATE SPEAKER FOR BDS, ACTUALLY ONE OF THE FOUNDERS.
    ASSASSINATING THE REALLY GOOD PALESTINIANS, SUCH AS POLICE OFFICERS, POLITICAL LEADERS, IS A DISGRACEFUL ACT CARRIED OUT BY THE IDF. THEY HAVE NO HONOR LEFT IN THE WORLD. THEY ARE COWARDS MANHANDLING CHILDREN. SNIPING PALESTINIANS SEARCHING THRU THE RUBBLE FOR THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS.
    I WOULD ADVISE, ALL ISRAELI SOLDIERS, IDF , ETC. TO ABANDON THEIR SERVICE TO ISRAEL, AND AT THE VERY LEAST TO KEEP WEARING THOSE MASK.
    IF AND WHEN YOU CANBE IDENTIFIED, IT’S PROSECUTE AND EXECUTE. WAR CRIMES WILL BE FOREVER PROSECUTED. EVEN YOUR TOP LEADERS RECOGNIZE THE TRUTH AND REALITY UNDER NETANYAHU. Listen up, it’s time to realize the waters around you have risen. Your best and brightest leaders are leaving Netanyahu’s extremist rightwing party. At the very least, it should make Netanyahu less confident of his standing among world leaders. And my own observation,INCH BY INCH, IF NECESSARY, a bit more credible. Stephen Hawking says, “anyone can answer big questions.”
    Stephen Hawking has joined BDS and will not speak in Israel.
    Stop a madman, who will keep replacing those who have a conscience, with those hardliners who have war crimes, as a mindset, like himself.
    History has taught us that criminalizing civil society and outlawing
    ideas, especially those that are guided by moral principles, is never
    a good idea. Netanyahu is legislating laws against his own people who oppose his Likud party war crimes.AND HILLARY CLINTON, WHO OPPOSES BDS, WILL MOST CERTAINLY ATTEMPT TO AT LEAST EMULATE THE NEW YORK GOVERNOR

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