By Andre Oboler for ZOTW, August 2nd 2008
The Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF) has taken over the group "'Israel' is not a country!... delist it from Facebook as a country!". The are currently emptying this group of members. Andre Oboler discussed the matter with JIDF's David Appletree shortly after the take over. It appears to be within facebook's rules and is infact not an instance of hacking as it was originally portrayed in the press. Facebook should have dealt with this themselves, and after the intervention by David, John and others at the JIDF... facebook eventually did act and remove the group.
A full analysis of this Facebook group's antisemitic nature was previously discussed by us in the "Antisemitism 2.0" paper. More on the JIDF and the current actions at Jerusalem Post (July 30 2008).
More on this topic will be published during October 2008.
Copyright 2008, Andre Oboler and Zionism on the Web
May be copied, but only with acknolwedgement by
linking to this page.