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My Newest Appeal To Facebook Oversight Board May 2026

22 May

Another invitation to go to the Oversight Board of Facebook.  This is the eleventh time I have been invited to submit a complaint.  The following is the post I complained about this time.  It was one of three I submitted about this person. Another post I reported by this person was taken down because it actually called for violence against Jewish people. 

This is what I wrote to the Oversight Board.  I doubt anything will happen.   But I keep trying.

“This person constantly publishes hate speech against Jewish.  Here is the one I am upset about that you did not take down.  I am bold faces the part that is disgusting: THESE ARE EUROPEAN JEWS MURDERING INDIGENOUS PALESTINIANS BECAUSE SOME JEW, 3400 YEARS AGO CLAIMED THAT “GOD GAVE THE JEWS THE PALESTINIANS’ LAND”.  OR, THAT IS THE EXCUSE.  REALITY IS THAT THEY ARE SOCIOPATHIC, SATANIC MONSTERS.

This post is filled with lies. There were no Palestinians 3400 years ago, the Jewish people were there before there were any Palestinians, and in fact the people who live in Gaza are mainly Egyptian.  And this person consistently is expressing Jew hatred. But actually, is this a real person, since the picture associated with the page is Arafat. It could be a bot.

Again and again, you offer me the chance to go to Facebook’s oversight board because of my continued complaints about antisemitism online.  I should not have to keep telling you that this hate speech against Jewish people is untenable and Meta needs to be better at deleted it.

I should not have to see comments like: “The Austrian painter was correct.”  “Mossad did it”.  “They were promised for 3000 years.”  The AI horrific depictions of Jewish people.  The constant lies about Israel. The calling for deaths of Zios and J3w$.  The hateful joking about Jewish people being killed or attacked or injured on streets, saying they deserved it. 

There is absolutely NO reason to allow it.  When you started Facebook and other social media platforms, you PROMISED people as SAFE PLACE to connect with others.  IT is no longer safe.

IF you CANNOT self-regulate, then it is time for these social media platforms to be shut down or to have the government passed laws to regulate them as they have in Europe.  You can clean up social media.  DO IT!”

I should have also said that the majority of Jewish people in Israel are not of European descent. The majority of them are Mizrachi and Sephardic Jews who were forced out of Moslem Arab countries in the late 1940s and 1950s, or they are from African countries like Ethiopia. It is also time for these lies about Ashkanazi Jews not really being Jewish or not recognizing that Jews come from all over the world, Europe, Asia, Africa. And all are united by their Jewish heritage. Along with the lies about aparthied. It is difficult to be apartheid when Jews are all colors and all nationalities.

Even though I am a firm believer in a free press, I now believe that Social Media does need to be regulated. If they cannot stop this online hatred, they need to be regulated. Facebook can stop it. There is no law that says Facebook must allow this hatred. It really is not about free speech, it is about Facebook not doing what it should be doing according to its own community standards.

In Eurpoe, they haveThe Digital Services Act (DSA) which introduces rules for online services used by European citizens in their everyday life. This law outlaws Holocaust deniers online, while the USA does not have laws to stop these lies. See the website below for more information about the Digital Services Act. It is not a panacea, but it is a start. The USA needs a similar Act.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-services-act

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Serendipity Wins In Finding a Family Connection!

27 Jan

Serendipity is when events happen by chance and cause success or benefit the person who the events occur around. Today, a few days after my birthday, my life was ruled by serendipity!

For about a year now I have belonged to a Facebook group entitled “Tracing the Tribe.” I joined it mainly to see if I could find anybody related to my maternal grandparents. And last summer I did make contact with a family member through this group.

Recently I began thinking about my paternal grandparents, and wondered if I could find anything out about them. A few days ago someone started a comment asking people to put up the names of the families they were searching for on to the site. I did not do this. But I was watching. They then put all the names into a spreadsheet.

GG Grandparents

So this morning, I checked. And there was a name I knew, Wolf or Wolff, or Wolfe. That was my great great grandparents last name. So I put up a post on the page addressed to the woman who had posted about the name Wolf. I just wrote, “ My gg grandparents were Victor and Esther Wolff. Does that match your search?” She was not related to me.

However, soon another man posted, EW. He had some interesting facts and names. Names that were familiar. We soon realized there was a connection. It was a distant one. But it seemed possible that his three times great grandfather was the brother of my two times great grandmother. If so, I would have much more information for my family tree.

And so we sent emails back and forth throughout the day. I sent him a photo of my great great grandparents. He sent me a photo of his great grandfather. And there were some similarities.

And through these emails and looking into my family information that I had gathered from my Grandma Esther in the 1970s, it was definite. We were related.

His three times great grandfather Israel Lew was the brother of my great great grandmother Esther Wolf.   And I now had the names of her parents, Jankiel and Mindel Lew/Lewin/Levin (who were cousins) from Ciechanowiec. I also now had the names of more of her siblings, including Israel Lew, there was Azriel Aharon Lew, Fedjda Perlowicz, Betzalel Lew, Abram Boruch Lew and three more!

WOW! I always knew that my Grandma Esther was named after her grandmother, but I now learned that my Great Aunt Minnie was named after her great grandmother Mindel. That was exciting.

Not only all this. But I found out that Victor’s Hebrew/Yiddish name was Awigdor/Avigdor, which I had not known before now. Although I knew he had to have a Hebrew name. And that Esther was also known as Etka, which was probably the European name.

EW also found the date that my great grandparents, Louis and Ray, married: January 28, 1894, almost exactly 121 years ago! What serendipity that I was finding this all out now. Right near their anniversary! I was a bit stunned. All by chance. By one little message on a Facebook group’s page!

There was so much information in the multiple emails my new relative sent me, I think I had an information melt down. As I read each email it made more and more sense, and I could see the lines making the connections.   It was like a mini revelation!

I cannot explain the glow and the excitement that went through me! One little posting and I learned so much!

I was so glad that I had sat with my grandmother 40 years ago to get this information so that I could now say with certainty, I can go back one more generation in my family’s lineage.

And perhaps more! My sister and I have been trying to find out where our great grandparents were buried. There in all the emails was information on Beth David Cemetary in Elmont, NY. If other relatives were buried there, I believe there is a good chance our great grandparents are also there.

Serendipity, Chance and little guts to put a post up on Facebook.   What a win!

 

 

Update.  Found out my great aunt and uncle are in Beth David Cemetery, but my great grandparents are in Washington Cemetary in Brooklyn.

Update 2:  Thanks to another distant ‘Lew’ relative, AB,  I have now seem my family tree of my great great grandmother Esther Lew Wolf and have seen my ancestor back to my seven times great grandparents…back to an ancestor born in 1720!  For a Jewish family that is quite amazing.  And I can do that in my maternal side as well!

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