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Other than Jordan, the Jewish state maintains a peace treaty with neighboring Egypt, which has also expressed concern over the move.
“I wasn’t thinking about the anti-Semitic thing, but I don’t want to take down the post because I felt the message was powerful, and a lot of people did,” she said.
The platform has incorporated extremist posts, including far-right ideologies of fascism, racism, chauvinism, nativism and xenophobia.
In response, its pro-Israel student group has launched a petition calling for the student to apologize to both the campus and Jewish student community, or else “resign her position.”
A red inverted triangle was used by the Nazis to identify political enemies, including Communists, liberals, Social Democrats and Freemasons.
“We hope this campaign finally shows Facebook how much their users and their advertisers want them to make serious changes for the better,” said ADL national director and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
“I learned a lot from watching this powerful video,” wrote Handler on her Instagram page, which has 3.9 million followers.
However, says U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook, “the door for diplomacy on our side is wide open.”
Despite Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s history of bigoted remarks, the comedian countered that “Hitler was responsible for killing millions of lives. Farrakhan is just responsible for his own promotion of anti-Semitic beliefs.”
“At a time in this country when we need to pull together, bigoted imagery on the Internet is the last thing we need,” said B’nai B’rith International.
The caricature is identical to “anti-Semitic propaganda used by Hitler and the Nazis to whip up hatred that led to the massacre of millions of Jews,” according to journalist and filmmaker Michael Segalov.
The soldier is suspected of having made death threats against the Israeli premier in a number of posts on his Facebook page.
