Meta has said it will expand its hate speech policy to cover more uses of the word “Zionist” when applied to Jews or Israelis on its platform.

We will now remove messages targeting ‘Zionists’ in several areas where our investigation has shown that the term tends to be used to refer to Jews and Israelis, with dehumanising comparisons, calls to harm, or denials of existence," the company said in a press release on Tuesday.

In December, Human Rights Watch said that Meta was guilty of “systemic censorship of Palestine content” during Israel’s war on Gaza.

  • @Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    4 months ago

    Calling for the eradication of a religious ethnostate that engages in genocide and colonialism is surprisingly a good thing.

    Or do you think it was bad the world eradicated Nazi Germany?

    • @cygnus@lemmy.ca
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      -34 months ago

      That’s an excellent historical analogy — too bad you’ve misunderstood it. Germany was not dissolved after WW2, and its population was not thrown to the wolves. We only replaced their government. I agree that Likud needs to go (ideally to the Hague) but the people here wanting to wipe the country from the map are dangerous lunatics.

      • @Deceptichum@quokk.au
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        84 months ago

        The countries of East and West Germany would like a word with you. The state of Nazi Germany very clearly ceased to exist.

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          -14 months ago

          The division was because the winners couldn’t coexist, not because Germany inherently needed to be split. The whole thing could have been treated like West Germany.

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            64 months ago

            No, the division was because the winners couldn’t agree on who gets to build a new country where the old one was.

            No one was going to leave the Nazi state in power.

            • @cygnus@lemmy.ca
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              -24 months ago

              The division was because the winners couldn’t coexist,

              No, the division was because the winners couldn’t agree on who gets to build a new country where the old one was.

              Sounds to me like we’re in agreement here? In any case, the Allies didn’t give have Poland annex German territory or whatever. It continued to exist. Lots of people in this thread on the other hand want to delete Israel altogether and give it all to Palestine (which, incidentally, has never been a state at any point in history)

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                Why would the Allies give German land to a Soviet puppet state of Poland?

                You know what they did? They gave it back to the people living there, so let’s give Israel back to the people who lived there, that is the majority the Palestinians.

                The Israelis can be like White South Africans, stay or fuck off, it’s not important.

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                  You know what they did? They gave it back to the people living there, so let’s give Israel back to the people who lived there, that is the majority the Palestinians.

                  The Israelis can be like White South Africans, stay or fuck off, it’s not important.

                  Holy fuck. I’m going to be charitable and assume you’re just unaware of history, and not a full-blown Nazi. You know Palestinians and Mizrahi Jews are the same people, right?

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                    The only full blown Nazi I’m potentially seeing around here is wanting the Nazi-wannabe state of Israel to not be destroyed.

                    And no, Palestinians are not all Jews.

                    The majority of Israelis are descended from Europeans or Americans, they are not the people living there before Israels colonisation.