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Facebook reassurances on ‘Zionist’ hate speech interpretation met with skepticism
Jewish and Palestinian activists, awaiting a final decision, remain largely unconvinced a slated new policy won’t stifle free speech
Protesters in Boston deliver a petition to Facebook arguing against the platform s possible new policy change in early 2021. (Provided). By Published date: 2 April 2021 10:39 UTC | Last update: 5 sec ago
A Facebook announcement on Tuesday responding to criticism about a controversial rethink of how the platform should interpret the term Zionist has been met with skepticism by Arab and Jewish rights groups.
Speaking at the Palestine Digital Activism Forum, Facebook officials said they had no plans to make Zionist part of their so-called protected characteristics in their hate speech policy. The platform does not allow content attacking tenets of a person’s identity, including race, gender, sexu
For mainstream lawmakers, the January 6 attack was a wake-up call to a simmering threat. No longer able to pretend white nationalist violence is a fringe remnant of a bygone era, some elected officials have drawn attention to law enforcement’s negligence to prevent the violence at the capitol and are calling for new approaches.
However, some of their calls to action point toward old approaches that have only entrenched the forces of white supremacy: domestic terrorism laws. In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 attack, President Joe Biden expressed support for a domestic terrorism law. Brian O’Hare, the president of the FBI Agents Association, called on Congress to make domestic terrorism a federal crime. In a February