Facebook removes page featuring anti-Jewish content
Facebook removed a page featuring anti-Jewish content,
including a photo of murdered Jews in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen with the
headline "Lazy Jews."
In response to a formal complaint by the Executive
Council of Australian Jewry, Mia Garlick, Facebook's Sydney-based manager of
communications and policy, confirmed Saturday that the Jewish memes page was no
longer available.
Peter Wertheim, executive director of the Executive
Council of Australian Jewry, welcomed the removal and said a Facebook decision
is pending about another 15 pages about which the council has complained.
"The Jewish memes page not only represents a slur on
all Jews, as Jews, but also subtly seeks to justify and therefore incite
violence against them," Wertheim wrote. "Many of the posted comments
lay bare the hateful purpose of this page."
Wertheim said the
Facebook page violates Australian law though the Racial Discrimination Act and
Facebook’s terms of service against hate speech.
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