Hate on Facebook

Author: Miriam (Egypt/Israel/USA) - June 11, 2007

I use Facebook a lot for work, and I just stumbled upon a group that someone who had attended an event I spoke at had recently joined. It’s a group for Lebanese students and supporters called “No Palestinian will remain on Lebanese lands.” I was horrified. This kind of hate speech is rampant on Facebook, because you can create a group for just about anything. But this group is created in Arabic, and therefore it is meant to be an internal mobilization of people against the Palestinian minority in Lebanon.
The hard thing about these groups is to post anything, especially a protest, you must actually “join” the group and perhaps have others think that you support it. Too bad there is no “graffiti” app enabled, I have a few words for the creators.



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