This is a guest post by Andre Oboler.
My new report into Facebook and Holocaust denial has just been published. The report provides in-depth background and then delves into the reasons why Holocaust denial is hate speech, why counter speech is in this case not an option, and why Facebook as a private company does indeed have both the right and a moral obligation to remove this hateful content.
Continue reading ‘Holocaust Denial: Yes Facebook, it is Hate Speech’
This is a guest post by Hawkeye.
For those of you that are familiar with the Guardian’s ˜Comment is Free, you’ll know that it has become the meeting place ˜above the line“ of Jewish anti-Zionists of the likes of Anthony Lerman and Richard Silverstein, supporters of the one-state solution such as Ali Abunimah and Khaled Diab, leaders and spokespeople for Hamas such as Khalid Mishaal and Azzam Tamimi and proponents of the ˜Israel is an apartheid state” lie such as Ben White. Only yesterday CiF readers were exposed to the toxic views of CiF regular, Seth Freedman, who incredulously denied the deeply antisemitic nature of the Aftonbladet blood libel article.
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