YOUTUBE REMOVES HAMAS CHANNEL AFTER SWC PROTEST; Media Briefing Urges Social Network Giants to Bar Palestinian Online Terror

At a press conference today, Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper urged the public to report hate sites (at www.Facebook.com/SimonWiesenthalCenter) on social media platforms which are fueling the current spate of attacks inIsrael.

Center officials announced that SWC protests have ledto the removal of additional pro-terrorist postings from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram.

The Rabbis also denounced:

• The unfair and one-sided portrayal of Israeli terror victims in themedia

• The U.S. State Department’s outrageous depiction of the currentsituation as a “cycle of violence” - “It is not a cycle of violence, but a campaign of Palestinian violence,” Center officials declared.

• The use of social media platforms to celebrate murderousattacks against innocent people and instructional terrorism tutorial videos

• The BDS’movement’s endorsement of the barbaric acts of terrorism and renewed calls to boycott Israel

Center officials, who presented Facebook postings from Europe calling for attacks against Israelis in their countries, said, “We areconcerned that if this trend continues, we could see violent incidents on our own shores."

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