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Anti-semitism on the web 2.0

It was the massacre killing seven youths and one adult that turned David into an internet fighter. In March a radical Palestinian shot eight students of a Yeshiva, a Jewish religious school. Just a little later Ahmad from Saudi-Arabia founded a group on the Internet platform Facebook that praised the murderer Alaa Abu Dhaim as a martyr – and soon had 300 members. For David who had been a member of Facebook for years already this was the “key moment” that motivated him to go public to a greater extent and attempt to give a similarly clear response in turn. Together with some colleagues he founded the internet site “Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF)”, as a reminder of the Israeli armed forces IDF, the “Israeli Defense Force”. The logo of the JIDF is as bold as the name: a fighter jet in front of a blue-white Israeli flag with a Magen David.

It’s the aim of the site to counteract online anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli tirades of hatred on Web 2.0– on popular social networks like Facebook, Wikipedia or YouTube. The price of his job : after several threats on his life David does not wish to expose more of himself than his first name. For years he and his colleagues have observed the “increasing anti-Semitism” and have started different political campaigns – now they are planning to gather them under the publicity effective umbrella of the JIDF.

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