Above: the Israeli settlement of Tekoa in the occupied West Bank, south of Bethlehem, 17 November 2020 (AFP)
Middle East Eye – May 28, 2021
Facebook is being criticised for letting companies advertise the sale of property in illegal Israeli settlements on Instagram, amid continued outrage at the social media giant’s alleged censorship of Palestinian accounts in recent weeks.
Images posted online showed an Israeli company advertising properties in the northern occupied West Bank settlement of Beit Aryeh-Ofarim on Instagram, the social media platform owned by Facebook.
Facebook, like other social media companies, is facing mounting pressure over its policing of pro-Palestinian content in the wake of the recent deadly escalation in Israel and Palestine, which has left some 292 people dead.
Twitter, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook have all been accused of banning, blocking or restricting accounts that published photos of the Israeli bombardment of civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The social networks have also been accused of restricting posts that included the words or hashtags “Palestine”, “resistance”, “Israel”, “Hamas”, and “al-Aqsa.”
In a bid to beat the algorithms, activists and other social media users have taken to not writing the words “Israeli” or “Palestinian”, or using an alternative Arabic font, fearing that their posts could be suppresssed.
Seriously @instagram?
Not only does the platform censor Palestinian voices, it’s profiting from the sale of Israeli settlements built on stolen land, by allowing them to be marketed & sold on the platform. The international consensus is settlements are international crimes. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/5CItkSNVXQ
— Fadi Quran (@fadiquran) May 28, 2021
Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem breach the Fourth Geneva Convention, which outlaws the transfer of a civilian population into militarily occupied areas.
Approximately 600,000 Israelis live in 140 illegal settlements across the West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967.
In 2020, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) published a list of 112 businesses that operate in Israeli settlements. Among these companies were Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and Motorola Solutions, which stand accused of profiting from trade with Israeli settlements.
“The report makes clear that the reference to these business entities is not, and does not purport to be, a judicial or quasi-judicial process,” the OHCHR said.
“While the settlements as such are regarded as illegal under international law, this report does not provide a legal characterisation of the activities in question, or business enterprises’ involvement in them.”
Amid the most recent escalation of violence, calls for boycotts and sanctions against Israel and companies benefitting from its breaches of international law have once again come to the fore.
It’s not surprising, Mark Zuckerberg (Jewish), CEO of Facebook, joined the popular Facebook group Secret Tel Aviv. Facebook also has an office in Tel Aviv.
If Zuckerberg truly doesn’t support racism and apartheid (occupied Palestine worse than apartheid), he should shut down the Tel Aviv office and quit the Secret Tel Aviv Facebook group.
I doubt if the liberal cancel culture crowd, which supposedly despises racism (except against White people), will boycott Zuckerberg for his involvement with apartheid Israel.
All of the so-called Israeli “settlements” outside the pre-67 Armistice line are ILLEGAL. The Geneva Conventions make all of the Israeli “settlements” in the occupies territories ILLEGAL. Israel is an ILLEGAL country. The majority of Israeli citizens are Satanic Ashkenazi Bolshevik Communist Khazars.
These Khazars originate in the lands between the Black and Caspian Seas and have NO connection to Palestine or the Hebrews of the Christian Bible. There will be no peace on earth until the ILLEGAL entity called Israel is wiped from the face of humanity.
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“These Khazars originate in the lands between the Black and Caspian Seas and have NO connection to Palestine or the Hebrews of the Christian Bible.”
And the Hebrews are not jews. Many people fail to understand this. There were Judahites and there were jews. Do not confuse the two.
There are two lines of jew – the line from Esau (Edom) who took Canaanite wives and created a line of jews (Canaanite) and there is the line from Judah, who took a Canaanite wife and mixed the bloodlines, as had Esau before.
In the Old Testament, those who the jews refer themselves to, falsely, were ‘Judahites’. In the New Testament the jew was an inhabitant of Judea. You see, the jew HAS no identity. The Ashkenazi jews are a Turkic-Mongolian mix. That means that they are part Edomite. The Palestinian jews and those around the area are FULL Edomites, being of Esau.
As the saying goes of old “jews maybe Israelites, but no Israelite is a jew.”
The very peoples whom God continually told the Hebrews to avoid and destroy are now in charge of them. Those people are the jews. It is the fault of the Hebrews for not destroying the jews that we have the hell we have today.
Christ states he will come back for his flock. The whack job, loony Zionist Christians think that the jews are the flock of Jesus, but they are not. Jesus is coming for the Israelites, not the jews. He is coming for the Hebrews, not those who simply call themselves Christians.
The 12 tribes of Israel’s descendants are the European peoples, hence their persecution that’s going to get far, far worse before end times. This is nothing. They’ve just started tightening the screw.
You will not find ANY jew, in a position of power, authority and influence who is not a Zionist. Had any other nation done a fraction of the wrong of Israel, it would have been invaded by the UN. The jew CONTROLS the UN as it does the west, Russia and China. It’s all just a big game.
I remember seeing a caption on the internet during the lockdown and it was of Piccadilly in London’s west end. I believe it was after they’d stopped the first lockdown and given the goy some liberty to go out. Slap bang, on one of the biggest electronic billboards was an advertisement for tourism in Israel.
The British are weak that they allow the jew to control them and their weakness is as a result of the ignorance and fear.
I feel truly sorry for the Palestinians. I can’t do diddly to stop the hell they’re experiencing, other than let people know of their plight. I wish I could do more. I really do. I always knew that what happened in Palestine was the canary in the coal mine for the rest of the world, just as what happens in Sweden for whites.
However, I will say that if we are to help the Palestinians, other than wiping Israel off the face of the earth, destroying the Rothschild bankers, the aristocracy and the Balfour Declaration is the only way to go. The crown corporation of London is Rothchild and Queen and her inbreds their mask they hide behind. If only the British people knew, how much the royals loathe them all, they wouldn’t be so jingoistic as they are. It’s pathetic to watch.
You can see that the unnatural circular settlements are just there as a statement, a turd on the kitchen table, and not an organic and evolved by-product of human activity.