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Facebook Deletes Free Palestine Page

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Re: Facebook Deletes Free Palestine Page

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"We at ArabCrunch condemns this move by Facebook and call it a racist one,"

It angers me when people use the word racist completely out of place. A useful journalism practice, if your purpose is to attract the attention of as many people as possible, but a despicable one, if your focus is on telling the truth.

(Now, I agree that Palestinians and Israelis might be of different race, but the rest of the article emphasizes the religious differences between the two groups.)

Re: Facebook Deletes Free Palestine Page

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Nothing to see here, move along. I'm sure they'd do the same for any page getting significant traffic for the US. Facebook has no obligation to free speech.

Edit: that being said, come on. Israel is a US-favoured state. I don't blame Facebook, but don't be intellectually dishonest. It is quite probable that the removal is politically motivated.

Re: Facebook Deletes Free Palestine Page

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post #3

"We at ArabCrunch condemns this move by Facebook and call it a racist one," It angers me when people use the word racist completely out of place. A useful journalism practice, if your purpose is to attract the attention of as many people as possible, but a despicable one, if your focus is on telling the truth. (Now, I agree that Palestinians and Israelis might be of different race, but the rest of the article emphasi…

I agree with ArabCrunch.yes it is racist to keep pages that insults the profit of islam and remove anything that criticize israel also considering Facebook CEO Mark is jewish

Re: Facebook Deletes Free Palestine Page

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> It is worth mentioning that Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is Jewish. Not really.

he is jewish and the page was criticizing the Jewish state israel

But it's not worth mentioning, because the odds are 99.99999999% against that having anything to do with the page's removal.

Honestly, these kind of racist twitches really do a great disservice to certain Muslim authors. The knee-jerk "BLAME THE JOOZ" response might be understandable if Israel has been systematically trying to kill your family, but in a world of rational discourse it makes me want to write you off as a nutter.

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