Semantics, from extermination fanatics. Okay, so you’re saying “From the river to the sea isn’t hate speech,” and I say it’s not only hatred towards Israel and Jews, but it is extermination speech. Either the members of Meta’s oversight board are dumber than a pile of rocks, utterly clueless as to what the chant means — or they certainly know and want to keep stoking the flames of antisemitism. They want to see Israel in turmoil and struggling, they want to see evil reign and the Judeo-Christian world system crumble.

I am convinced it is the latter. Sensing the spirit that is cast over and absorbed by more people around the world than at any other time in history. Yes, in history. Far more intense, growing, and widespread than anything Nazi Germany could have ever hoped to achieve.

Communist China has growing antisemitism. Hatred of Israel and desiring Israel’s extermination. That never happened before.

America is a seething, roiling, and boiling cesspool of Israel and Jew hatred. And growing.

Worldwide. As never witnessed before on this scale. Have you been following the news, the real news of what has been occurring in Europe, in America, around the world with regard to Jews not being able to board planes, commercial airlines recognizing the West Bank as “Palestine,” restaurants owned by Jews being vandalized, being set on fire, college campuses seeing growing unrest and Jew and Israel hatred to such a level it keeps Jewish students in fear — Kristallnacht occurring in broad daylight now as evil is emboldened.

The camps might not be built, the ovens turned on, but if paying attention and knowing history while also knowing the Word of God the conclusion already is that it is going to be worse — because now it is worldwide and America has turned against Israel, and within Israel, the spirit of evil is greatly at work dividing and lying, deceiving and misleading.

The Word of God tells us these things would happen in the last of the last days. The kingdom of God is at hand. Prepare your way or perish.

And no matter if you are born again disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach, or not it would be of the greatest blessing to pray — faithfully, humbly — before the throne of God for Benjamin Netanyahu, for the people of Israel, all the people of Israel, and have your heart and mind, your spirit in the right place, regarding Israel and the Jews, which is God’s place.

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Ken Pullen, Friday, September 6th, 2024

Members of Meta’s Oversight Board have criticized Israel over Gaza — before deciding “from the river to the sea” isn’t hate speech

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

By Thomas Barrabi

Reprinted from The New York Post

Several members of Meta’s Oversight Board – which faced intense criticism after it determined the anti-Israel phrase “from the river to the sea” doesn’t constitute hate speech – have espoused views critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza.

The advisory board, which claims to be independent from Meta, determined that Facebook and Instagram users can use the controversial slogan – which has sprung up at anti-Israeli protests around the country – as long as it is not used in a way that glorifies Hamas or calls for violence.

Founded in 2020 with approval from Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg, the Oversight Board currently consists of 21 members who “come from a variety of cultural and professional backgrounds, speak more than 30 languages and are chosen to be reflective of the diverse users of Facebook, Instagram and Threads,” according to its website.

Yet past remarks by several members call into question their ability to remain impartial regarding the slogan, which refers to the idea of a Palestinian state stretching across the land in between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea – the land currently controlled by Israel.

Its members include Tawakkol Karman, a Yemini activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, who declared in a speech last May at the Vatican that the “world is silent in front of the genocide and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people in Gaza.” Israel denounced her speech as “flagrantly anti-Semitic.”

Alan Rusbridger, the former editor-in-chief of left-leaning UK news outlet The Guardian, penned a column earlier this year arguing that, while “real and vile antisemitism” does exist, the “horrors of 7 October most certainly did not happen in a vacuum.” He also weighed in on the debate over “from the river to the sea.”

“Some even thought the chant worthy of prosecution. Yet Netanyahu recently pronounced that Israel “must have security control over the entire territory west of the Jordan River” – thereby wiping out the idea of a state of Palestine. Is one sayable, and the other not?” Rusbridger wrote.

Nighat Dad, the director of the Pakistan-based Digital Rights Foundation, accused Facebook in a 2018 column of caving to Israel by “silencing the voices of a historically victimized people for calling of what can rightfully be called an occupying state is confirmation of the influence that some governments have on Silicon Valley tech giants.”

Endy Bayuni, an Oversight Board member and senior editor at the Jakarta Post, penned a column last April that argued Indonesia “should be seen championing an independent Palestinian state and full membership of the United Nations.”

The Oversight Board did not reveal which of its members had participated in the vote or a tally of how many had voted for and against the decision. The Post has reached out to the board for comment.

Other notable members of the board include former Denmark prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former United Nations spokesperson Khaled Monsour and Mexico City-based human rights lawyer Pamela San Martín.

The board acknowledged that a minority of its members dissented to the decision and pointed out that the phrase “from the river to the sea” even appears in the Hamas terror group’s charter.

“A minority of the Board finds that Meta should adopt a default rule presuming the phrase constitutes glorification of a designated organization, unless there are clear signals the user does not endorse Hamas or the October 7 attacks,” the board’s statement on the ruling said.

Meanwhile, a majority of the board’s voters felt the phrase “has multiple meanings and is used by people in various ways and with different intentions.”

“Context is crucial,” said San Martín, who serves as co-chair of the board. “Simply removing political speech is not a solution. There needs to be room for debate, especially during times of crisis and conflict.”

The group said its decisions are “made by panels of five Members and approved by a majority vote of the full Board” and noted that the decisions “do not necessarily represent the views of all members.”

Of the 21 members named on the Oversight Board’s website, just one is an Israeli.

Emi Palmor is Jerusalem-born lawyer and former director-general of Israel’s Justice Ministry who was part of the team that negotiated with Hamas for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit following his notorious abduction in 2006. Her parents survived the Holocaust as children.

Emi Palmor is the lone Israeli on Meta’s Oversight Board.

In a March 2021 interview with Jewish Insider, Palmor said she had joined to Oversight Board in part to lend her “perspective as a Jew on issues of antisemitism or on issues of genocide.”

The Combat Antisemitism Movement, a watchdog advocacy group, called the Oversight Board’s decision “absurd” and said it would fuel the spread of antisemitism online.

“’From the River to the Sea’ is a slogan created with the sole vision of destroying the national homeland of the Jewish people,” CAM CEO Sacha Roytman said in a statement. “It is genocidal in intent and meaning, and is not a legitimate political or ideological vision, because it targets the one Jewish state and its inhabitants for destruction.”

In May, CAM submitted a white paper to Meta’s Oversight Board outlining its position on why the slogan should be banned.

“It shows a conscious bias that some on the Meta Oversight Board use a twisted logic and verbal contortions to protect antisemites,” added Roytman. “We sent them the history and context of the phrase and how it was invented and used solely as a call for genocide by those who have openly and proudly called for the murder of Jews everywhere.”

“There is no amount of context or twisted logic that can excuse this outrage.”

The World Jewish Congress said it was “profoundly disappointed” in the decision.

“The phrase ‘From the River to the Sea,’ part of the charter of the terror group Hamas, is a clear call for violence against Israelis and the Jewish world at large,” the WJC said. “Jews around the globe have the absolute right to live freely as Jews, and Meta’s decision does nothing to defuse explicit antisemitism. Words matter, especially in the aftermath of October 7.”