Facebook enables Fatah terror promotion
Facebook enables Fatah terror promotion
by reopening their terror promoting page
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This is the kind of terror-promotion that Facebook reinstated by reopening Fatah's account:
[Official Fatah Facebook page, April 20, 2016]
Itamar Marcus
Three days ago, Facebook shut down Fatah's terror promoting account. The Palestinian Authority protested the closure as evidence of unfair collaboration between Israel and Facebook against the Palestinians (see below). Yesterday, Facebook reinstated the account, without removing any of the terror promoting material that is regularly posted on the page by Fatah. In 2016 alone, Palestinian Media Watch documented over 130 postsglorifying individual terrorist murderers and terror attacks, and posts encouraging violence and terror.
The following are examples of the terror and murder promotion that Facebook has reopened for public viewing:
A video produced by Fatah's student movement at Birzeit University urges Palestinians to murder Israelis and seek Martyrdom by carrying out stabbing and car ramming attacks. The video shows a staged car-ramming and stabbing attack at a checkpoint near Ramallah. [Official Fatah Facebook page, April 20, 2016] | ||
Fatah expressed pride in the first Palestinian female suicide bomber Wafa Idris, who murdered 1 and wounded over 100 in 2002: "Her pure body exploded into pieces in the Zionists` faces" [Official Fatah Facebook page, Jan. 27, 2017] |  | |
Fatah posted an image encouraging stabbing Jews on its Facebook page, at the beginning of the 2015-2016 terror wave. The image depicts a religious Jew screaming in pain with a knife stuck in his shoulder, accompanied by the text: "Here is Jerusalem, you crazies, beware!" [Official Fatah Facebook page, Oct. 4, 2015] |  | |
A Fatah student movement election campaign poster showed a bloody knife shaped as the PA map of "Palestine". Text on poster: "Plant it [the knife] in the heart of your enemy." [Official Fatah Facebook page, Apr. 26, 2016] |  | |
Fatah celebrated murdering 116 Israelis, when it bragged about its "10 most outstanding operations" and "10 most outstanding operations during the Intifada" in two separate posts [Official Fatah Facebook page, Dec. 16, 17, 2016]. |  |
PA accuses Facebook of bias
Before Facebook reopened Fatah's page, the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Information complained that the closure was due to an "an agreement" between Facebook and Israel:
"The [PA] Ministry [of Information] emphasized in a statement... that the targeting of... Palestinian national platforms on social media constitutes blind bias in favor of the occupation and a violation of the international conventions and decisions. It also constitutes additional proof of an agreement - whose existence Facebook has been denying for a long time - between its administration and the freedom oppressing occupier (i.e., Israel)."
[WAFA, official PA news agency, Feb. 28, 2017]
Reacting to the closure of Fatah's page, Head of Information at the Fatah Commission of Mobilization and Organization Munir Al-Jaghoub, who manages Fatah's Facebook page, emphasized that Fatah "will establish an alternative page and new accounts," and complained pages of "settlers" and "ISIS" have not been shut down:
"There are Facebook pages of settlers who post pictures of weapons and weapon training, and [Facebook] does not oppose them. The Facebook administration claims that it is not receiving complaints about these pages. This is in addition to the pages of ISIS, which every day post scenes of murder, slaughter, and weapons, and which have approximately a quarter of a million followers - and they are not closed or blocked... This page belongs to the [Palestinian] National Liberation Movement (i.e., Fatah), not a gang. It has had historical glory since the day of its founding."
[Wattan, independent Palestinian news agency, Feb. 28, 2017]
The following are longer excerpts of the responses to Facebook's closure of Fatah's page:
Headline: "The [PA] Ministry of Information: Facebook's supervision of our forums is bias in favor of the occupation"
"The [PA] Ministry of Information said that the fact that the Facebook administration closed the Fatah Movement's official page and the page of a private radio station constitutes blind bias in favor of the occupation, and siding with the hangman who creates terror and spreads hate through all the means and pictures day and night.
The ministry emphasized in a statement today, Tuesday [Feb. 28, 2017], that the targeting of the media platforms and Palestinian national platforms on social media constitutes blind bias in favor of the occupation and a violation of the international conventions and decisions. It also constitutes additional proof of an agreement - whose existence Facebook has been denying for a long time - between its administration and the freedom oppressing occupier (i.e., Israel) who disdains the international conventions.
The ministry added that the Facebook administration closed the Fatah Movement's official page and the page of a media outlet, which was a victim of ongoing incitement and acts of terror by the Israeli occupation army against its employees. This requires its administration (i.e., Facebook's) to clarify its steps, so as not to be perceived as one that follows the path of the occupation and violates the standards of individual and public freedoms...
The ministry called on the site's administration to take back the unfair decision, as one who spreads freedom of speech and thought and defends its platforms in the world cannot support the occupation and side with racism and dark terror that expels the people of Palestine who is thirsty for its freedom."
[WAFA, official PA news agency, Feb. 28, 2017]
Headline: "A picture of late President Arafat causes the closure of the Fatah Movement's Facebook page"
"The 'Facebook' social media administration closed the Fatah Movement's page on the site. According to the movement, the Facebook administration notified it that the reason for the closure was the posting of a picture of late President Yasser Arafat, in which he is seen holding a Kalashnikov rifle that had been in the possession of an Israeli soldier - after [the soldier] was captured in Beirut in the '80s - and next to him [current Fatah Deputy Chairman and] leadership member Mahmoud Al-Aloul.
Head of information at the Fatah Movement Bureau (sic., Commission) of Mobilization and Organization Munir Al-Jaghoub told the [independent Palestinian] news agency Wattan: 'The Facebook administration closed the page, which has approximately 70,000 followers, and said that the reason for the closure was that the picture contradicts Facebook's standards.' He added that 'The admin pages that manage this page were blocked for a period of 30 days.'
Al-Jaghoub noted that they were warned by the Facebook administration that the page would be removed if they continued to post pictures like this, and said: 'In the past approximately four warnings reached us before [the page] was closed today [Feb. 28, 2017].'
He responded to the closure by saying: 'There are Facebook pages of settlers who post pictures of weapons and weapon training, and [Facebook] does not oppose them. The Facebook administration claims that it is not receiving complaints about these pages. This is in addition to the pages of ISIS, which every day post scenes of murder, slaughter, and weapons, and which have approximately a quarter of a million followers - and they are not closed or blocked.'
Al-Jaghoub continued: 'This page belongs to the [Palestinian] National Liberation Movement (i.e., Fatah), not a gang. It has had historical glory since the day of its founding.'
He also emphasized that they will establish an alternative page and new accounts, as this is the second time that the movement's page was closed; approximately a year and a half ago the Facebook administration closed this page when it had 200,000 followers."
[Wattan, independent Palestinian news agency, Feb. 28, 2017]