Jewish Internet Defense Force 'seizes control' of anti-Israel Facebook group

[TriWooOx]

The Jewish Internet Defense Force, a group that claims to have 5,000 members worldwide, says it is steadily removing members from a viciously anti-Israel and anti-Semitic group on Facebook, having taken control of the group on Sunday.

"Facebook wouldn't do anything about [the group], so we did what had to be done," the group posted on its Web site. "We're not sure how long this can or will last, so we're moving fast to do what needs to be done."

The Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF) describes itself as a group of Jewish activists who fight anti-Semitism and terrorism trends throughout the Internet. It says it 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.

"As we used Facebook, we noticed many of the issues began literally to stare us in the face, as many various anti-Semitic and pro-Jihadist groups were springing up everywhere," said David, the spokesperson for the JIDF, who asked that his last name not be published. He said he had received four death threats since beginning his activities.

In the JIDF's latest efforts, the group has been working around the clock to dismantle the group on Facebook titled, "Israel is not a country! Delist it from Facebook as a country." That group had tens of thousands of members.

"This was one of the most vile, most anti-Semitic, most pro-Jihad and most disgusting, and most importantly, most active hate groups on the Internet," the JIDF posted on the anti-Israel page on Facebook. "It actively promoted hatred, violence, murder and genocide. Despite tens of thousands of complaints, Facebook wouldn't remove it."

"Facebook's negligence and abdication of responsibility gave us no option but to take matters in our own hands," the JIDF added.

The JIDF would not specify what technological methods it used to gain access to the group, but said it succeeded in doing so after the old administrators left.

"Ultimately, it was a result of our enemies' stupidity and our timing, persistence and determination more than anything else," David said.

The JIDF received a response from Facebook, he said, which called the anti-Israel group "legitimate political discourse." Facebook was not available for comment.

At the height of the two-year-old anti-Israel group's popularity, the "Israel is not a country" page had 48,000 members. Currently, there are 24,039 members, with the numbers decreasing by the minute due to the JIDF's actions. It has also changed the group's administrator titles to read "Mossad Zionist."

There are dozens of anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic groups on Facebook, the popular social-networking site that has surpassed all other similar sites on-line in popularity, according to tech surveys.

According to Andre Oboler, a post-doctoral fellow in Bar-Ilan University's political science department and a Legacy Heritage Fellow at the NGO Monitor watchdog group, Facebook has known about the anti-Israel group for more than a year, and made no effort to remove it.

"[The JIDF] gained control of the group without compromising Facebook's security," Oboler said. "What they have done... is taken away the hate that was spreading through [the group's] membership. It's a shame that Facebook themselves did not remove it. It has taken a lot of effort from [the JIDF], while it would have taken Facebook one click."

The JIDF said its efforts are not limited to Facebook, but extend to anti-Semitism and anti-Israel posts found throughout the Internet, including on sites such as Google, Google Earth, YouTube and Wikipedia.

"Hateful propaganda and ideology like this has always prefaced great tragedy for our people," David said. "Ultimately, we see this as a great danger."

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[Canard]

well since our irc server is no longer up, where will we meet up if/when we meet the same fate?

[Ralph Furely]

i got lotsa shit on my facebook..

[Ytene]

This pervades the NET.  There are a lot people at the Hillel House who hit the Blogs.  They write in posing as 'anti-Semitic' Christian bigots praising Jesus and preaching hellfire for Jews.  Or they will write in as Muslim jihadists making 'threats'  against the Jews saying they want to die for Allah bayoneting Jewish babies. Anything to smear the blog as a 'hate site'. As soon as a thread starts to focus and seriously analyze the J-Factor in economics, politics, contemporary events, history, religion, culture, they will write in with info (often well researched and interesting) to deflect the discussion onto the real bogeys: E.T.s; Reptilians, Illuminati operatives, Neocon operatives, Ninja warlords, Fallen Angels. As soon as the Bloggers start to draw the J between say the Bolshevik mass murders of the Russians and the Young Turk mass murders of the Armenians, they write in as 'Nazi underground' heiling Hitler and raving about how Himmler was a dribbling incompetent who should have 'gotten them all' when he had the chance.  They construct the most hysterical and elaborate scenarios.  As long as they are behind a Goy mask, they carry on with the most vitriolic hate speech. They denounce 'Jewish blood' and all Jews (however disinterested in Talmud, Kabbalah, Israel or Zionism) in the most scatolgoical, insulting and sweeping terms. They post links to their own dysinfo websites that can attach trackers onto those who visit and read, anything to get your email onto their data base.

The only thing that gets them to speak in their own identity is for a Jew to write in as a Jew and be critical of some aspect of Judaic ambitions, predations and agenda in measured, verifiable terms.  Then the Momzer Alert goes red.  They hit the Goy Awareness panic button.  They drop their Goy masks and attack as one. Bizzare. Totally bizarre.

[memory hole]

I've been using http://pagenest.com/ to DL lots of blogs and audio's I fear we don't have long left for free internet freedom, good software check it out, does blog sites in minutes.

[clark-kent]

when I read this I thought this guy with the ashtray joke

you didn't take the bait


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[K-Sensor]

Sounds like they hacked someone's computer to get username/passwords.

[LeveL]

Can't have it both ways.

If you're going to ban anti-Israel stuff, you also by this same token have to ban all the things that are "anti-Everyone-Except-Israel" too, where we have things like this happening...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/06 ... megaphone/

Yes folks it is of course... that stupid pointless "Megaphone" bullshit again.

How petty and arrogant can it get!

Does China have a "Megaphone"? Nope. What about Russia? Nope. Italy? Germany? France? Sweden? Britain? Hungary? Africa? America? Australia? Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope!

Only Israel has this - which is my point. You can't go about complaining about anti-Semitism then at the same time have things like the Megaphone.

Either make the Megaphone for all countries, or FUCK OFF with it!

What would happen if thousands of people all installed this Megaphone thing? What would happen if those people "worked with Jews" to educate them about things like the USS Liberty being attacked by Israel and it then blamed on Egypt? How about a few facts on Zionism? If this were done it would neutralize this software's purpose, which is to promote Israel and ignore all the criminality that it is involved in.

Lets face it they would just get your IP and ban you. These are the Nazi-like ideals we are dealing with unfortunately.

Say what you like about Israel but hey - nothing bad! Otherwise... well you know what they always call us, I am sick of typing it.