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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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Keep Reporting Online Hate Speech!

8 Jul

At times I think I have reached my limit dealing with online hatred, especially Jew Hatred.  I have viewed so many nasty comments under posts about Israel, especially posts about IDF soldiers who died, or under articles published in national news services, or articles about Jewish people in general, not even Israeli.

While the article itself might be positive, or perhaps sad about someone who died, the comments are often horrendous.  AI graphics showing Jews looking similar to propaganda from the Nazi era. Spewing hatred for the death of a Jew and wishing all Jews would die.  Spreading false information.  Calling for the mass murder of Jews throughout the world.

I report them all.  I take screen shots of those comments, and as I get messages from META, I checked to see what evilness they are still allowing to stay on Facebook or Instagram.  I honestly cannot believe the ones that they say do not go against their community standards!

After I sent an image to reviewed two times. This is what you see. So disappointing.

They ALMOST ALWAYS DENY any post I tag goes against the community standards the first time I report it, except for one that was so violent and horrific, it came down immediately. I was even thanked for helping them get it off social media, and if I ever saw anything like it again, I should immediately contact them.

Over my three years of reporting only eight posts I reported actually have been taken down, the one I mentioned and seven others, but those came after I sent it back for review.  Honestly, I send every single one I report back for review.  You can see in the above image that I actually got another horrible Jew Hating comment taken down in June. I put it here so you can see that it does happen!!! Sometimes the hate is so bad that they cannot leave it up.

An additional nine times I was told I can go to the oversight board.  I have attempted to do that several times.  In fact, I received one of these invitations last week.  I was trying to decide whether to take the time to do it, as sometimes I think it just goes into an abyss, since nothing seems to change.

The invitation to explain my belief to the Oversight Board.

Since the Jew Hatred is so filled of vitriol these days, I decided I had to send a report to the oversight board. I let them know exactly what I believed about their continuing to let Jew Hatred be present on META social media platforms. I wrote that Facebook was created for people to keep in touch with friends, not to be overwhelmed by hatred. That this was morally and ethically wrong, and that it needed to end. That hate speech was not free speech when it led to violence. And that the many, many instances of online Jew Hatred was leading to violence.

I tell everyone I know to keep reporting.  I was recently at an event for older retired Jewish women, where a speaker spoke about online Jew Hatred and how she works to get these horrible posts offline. I then reminded them that we as Jews are small in number, just 16 million worldwide.  If we want to make an impact, we all must work together.  I told them how to report a comment or image, by clinking on the three little dots on the right of a comment.  That they must use them to report!  Click on the 3 dots; then click the part that says report this comment, this photo, etc.; then go ahead and report it as spreading violence or hate!!!

There are several groups on social media working to stop online Jew hatred.  Some are asking us to report the Jew Hatred.  There are two that I know of: CyberWell and Digital Dome. Also Combat Anti-Semitism works to stop this hatred. It doesn’t hurt to report what you are seeing. And it might help.  This is a job that every Jewish person who is online should be doing.

If we do not speak up and work against Jew Hatred we are part of the problem. In the 1930s many were afraid to say anything, while others did stand up to hate. We have learned our lessons.  Never stay silent when hate is around.

At the same time, META must realize that leaving these expressions of Jew Hatred online opens the door to all others hate speech directed at other racial groups and, as we have seen, the LGBTQ and immigrant communities.  No hate speech should be tolerated online. These are private companies, they have the right to eliminate anything they don’t think is right. And they promise to provide a safe place for users!

I have read that some consider the Jew Hatred like the canary in the mine.  When the bird dies, you know that is bad air.  When online Jew Hatred gets this bad, perhaps it is the end of social media and a wake up call to all other groups to stop it.

Dante wrote in The Inferno: “The darkest place in Hell is reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis”

Don’t stay silent.  Speak out against online hate speech of any kind.

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