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Digital rights group slams Israeli attempt to censor Palestinians on social media May 17, 2021 at 2:41 pm | Published in: Israel, Middle East, News, Palestine Sada social logo [Sada Social] May 17, 2021 at 2:41 pm A Palestinian platform designed to protect online content shared by Palestinians has criticised Israel s attempt to impose its hegemony on social media platforms and censor content about the occupation state s ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood as well as its war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip. A statement from Sada Social followed a meeting last week between Israel s Defence Minister, Benny Gantz, and executives from Facebook and TikTok where he asked them to remove anti-Israel content. Sada pointed out that social media users advocating for Palestine and its people have since reported many violations of their digital rights. ....
Blinken laments scenes of dead Palestinian civilians, Palestinians denounce ‘censorship’ of social networks World May 13, 2021 Dubai: With accounts deleted on Twitter and content blocked on Instagram, Palestinian social media users say they have been censored from showing the reality of the unrest in occupied al-Quds. The eastern part of the holy city has been hit with the worst Israeli terrorism since 2017, with assaults centred around the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, since Friday. The tensions have since spiralled into a full-scale confrontation, in which Islamist groups have fired rockets and Israel has launched air raids on targets in the coastal enclave of Gaza. The tensions, which the United Nations has warned is heading towards a full-scale war , were triggered by the looming evictions of Palestinian families to make way for illegal Israeli settlers in the al-Quds neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. ....
May 12, 2021 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Sada Social, a Palestinian youth initiative aimed to confront challenges to the Palestinian cause on social media, has condemned Twitter for shutting down dozens of accounts of activists covering the attacks by the Israeli army in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem. The accounts were using the #SaveSheikhJarrah hashtag, in both English and Arabic. The May 6 statement demanded the reactivation of the 70 suspended accounts and for all users to be allowed to express solidarity on Twitter without discrimination. On May 8, Sada Social also condemned Instagram for removing the hashtag #Al-Aqsa as many users were posting about it. The group also said the account of activist Muna al-Kurd was suspended. ....