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by chroem- 3315 days ago
It's interesting that they have specific provisions for Zionism.
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That's because there's a specific campaign that actually happened with "how to stab a Jew" and similar.

https://news.vice.com/video/palestinian-social-media-uprisin...

> Leaderless Palestinian youth, inspired by instructional videos and photos on social media encouraging people to "Stab a Jew," are thought to be behind a new wave of violence in Israel and the West Bank. Uncoordinated and spontaneous attacks by individual young Palestinians, mostly under the age of 25, started to occur almost daily from October 2015, with assailants often using a household weapon — a knife, axe, meat cleaver, screwdriver — before being fired upon by nearby Israeli security forces. So far, the bloodshed has claimed the lives of at least 28 Israelis and 189 Palestinians, 128 of whom Israel says were assailants.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/may/21/revealed-facebo...

What does it even mean? What are the red and green marks?

What's even weirder to me is that they don't touch upon more examples. It's just so incredibly arbitrary that it can be used to easily cover up anything with zero consequences.

From the article:

A tick means something can stay on the site; a cross means it should be deleted.

Yes, it is, Id expect general provisions just for religion. I guess some religions are more equal than others.
If you refer to "#stab and be the fear" etc., I guess it's not because it's about Zionism, but rather because it's an incitement to commit terrorist acts (totally credible, seen the situatuon). So I guess it makes sense. (And I say this as a total sympathizer with the plight of Palestinians and their struggle against the Israeli occupation.)
Might have been because of the hashtag, but yeah, it's a bit weird.