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The threats came less than four months after the deadly attacks on Jews in Jersey City, N.J., and in Monsey, N.Y., in December 2019, and during a time of significant uptick in anti-Semitic activity online.
“Candidates should not promote anti-Semitic tropes or associate with white supremacists. This is not the face of Georgia,” said Dov Wilker, director of the American Jewish Committee’s Atlanta branch.
Community standards on social-media platforms have been criticized for failing to address the growing threat.
The appeal includes an open letter addressed to Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey by a New York resident, the petition’s creator.
“The materials fail to adequately discuss anti-Semitism—and characterize American Jews only in the context of how some have secured white privilege, which is misleading and erases the experience of a significant part of our community, including Middle Eastern and North African Jews, as well of other Jews of Color,” said Sarah Levin, executive director of JIMENA.
Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, said Rodney Muhammad will meet with faith and community leaders in the coming weeks to “open a dialogue and continue the educational conversations.”
It had already demonetized his videos on its platform following his anti-Semitic tirade.
Larry Johnson then claims the “Israelites (Shemites) aren’t a religion.”
“We are at our worst when we attack one another,” they wrote in a letter that denounced all forms of hate speech.
The book, which he read during Tisha B’Av, made him realize he was not “fully educated” regarding anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist conspiracy theories, the actor says.
At a July 29 hearing, representatives from Twitter and Facebook were taken to task over the rampant anti-Semitism on their platforms.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s posts “glorify violence,” but the Iranian leader’s calls to genocide are just “foreign policy saber-rattling on military-economic issues,” says Twitter regional policy director.
