October 14, 2015
WHAT: With Surging Violence in Mideast, Wiesenthal Center to
Urge Social Media Giants to Bar Palestinian Online Terror Training, Incitement
Against Jews WHEN: Thursday, October 15, at 10:30 AM WHERE: Museum of Tolerance, 9786 W. Pico Blvd, Los Angeles
90035
Tomorrow, October 15,
at 10:30am, Senior Wiesenthal Center officials will present major findings from
the Center’s Digital Terrorism and Hate Project showing dozens of social media
postings, inciting Palestinians to attack Israelis. Included will be online
tutorials of how to stab Jewish neighbors.
Today’s New York Times
reports on one Palestinian, who after stabbing a Jewish man, “Joined a cadre of young Palestinians who,
spurred on by social media, have independently decided to attack Israelis,
killing seven and wounding scores in two dozen episodes since October 1st,
authorities said.”
At tomorrow’s press conference, Rabbis Marvin Hier Founder
and Dean and Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Wiesenthal Center,
will present a fraction of the untold numbers of violent social media posts
uncovered by researchers from the Center’s Digital Terror and Hate Project just
this past week. Cooper will also focus on four aspects of this developing
trend:
1. The promotion of violent future attacks.
2. Instructions and How-To
guides for would-be attackers, including graphics outlying the most effective
ways to slay a Jewish victim
3. The celebration of these attacks and the instant
martyrization of attackers killed by law enforcement.
4. The push by some supporters of anti-Israel Boycott
legitimizing this violent “uprising."
Center officials will also present sample postings removed
after protests from Wiesenthal Center.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center regularly meets with Social
Networking giants in Silicon Valley and releases an annual report card
reflecting the commitment (or lack thereof) of companies to curb online terror
and hate.
For more information, please contact the Center's Public
Relations Department, 310-553-9036, join the Center on Facebook, www.facebook.com/simonwiesenthalcenter, or follow @simonwiesenthal for news updates sent direct to your Twitter feed.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest
international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member
families in the United States. It is an NGO at international agencies including
the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the OAS, the Council of Europe and the
Latin American Parliament (Parlatino).
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