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July 26, 2018, 12:00 am

If Facebook doesn’t revise its outdated policy on Holocaust denial, regulators will inevitably change it for them. That will leave Facebook and the Zuckerbergs not just stuck in the past, but on the wrong side of history.

Photos of Necha and Werner Fink found in the box.

January 18, 2018, 12:00 am

A remarkable present from the past

Pure chance, timing and the magic of social media came together this week to dramatically solve NSW woman Heidi Blackwell's 15-year-old mystery about the owner of a box full of items documenting a Jewish couple's escape from Nazi Germany to Australia via Shanghai.

By Shane Desiatnik

June 22, 2017, 12:01 am

Presenter’s post offends

A PRESENTER on community radio station 3CR has come under fire from ECAJ after posting a message on Facebook that appeared to justify the murder of Israeli border police officer Hadas Malka.

A screenshot of the standard reply Facebook sent to the Jewish teenager after she complained of highly abusive, anti-Semitic posts.

May 5, 2017, 12:00 am

Teen attacked on Facebook

An Australian teenager has been targeted by a wave of vicious hate posts on Facebook after members of a group she joined discovered she was Jewish.

By Peter Kohn

Founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg speaking Mobile World Congress 2015 at the Fira Gran Via complex in Barcelona, Spain.

July 6, 2016, 1:26 pm

Facebook under fire

Israel has responded to the latest terror by angrily pointing fingers at the Palestinian leadership and at Facebook – and by taking some major policy moves.

The Middle East section of Typo's globe.

February 11, 2016, 12:00 am

Hate posts follow globe furore

JUST weeks after pledging to remove a world globe with Palestine printed over the area of Israel from sale, Typo has come under fire again after allowing a barrage of “blatantly anti-Semitic and anti-Israel” comments to remain on its Facebook page.

By Evan Zlatkis

November 12, 2015, 12:00 am

Hate engulfs VCE Facebook group

THE principal of one of the schools involved in an onslaught of anti-Semitic comments on a VCE Facebook page has condemned the behaviour as “totally inappropriate”.

By Phoebe Roth

October 22, 2015, 12:00 am

Seven sorry for Facebook comments

CHANNEL Seven has apologised to the Jewish community and removed a post from its Facebook page which contained several vile anti-Israel and anti-Semitic comments, including one lamenting the fact that Hitler left some Jews alive.

By Evan Zlatkis

April 14, 2015, 12:00 am

Hackers target Bnei Akiva

By Peter Kohn

May 16, 2014, 12:00 am

18C helped beat Facebook hate page

COMMUNITY leaders say section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) helped them to persuade Facebook this week to close down a page run by the Australian branch of the far-right Greek political party Golden Dawn.

By Peter Kohn

April 2, 2014, 12:00 am

MP sparks ‘Holocaust’ furore

STATE Upper House MP Bernie Finn has thrown his weight behind a pro-life Facebook page called “Silent Holocaust”, a move that has angered Holocaust survivors in Melbourne.

By Timna Jacks

Executive Council of Australian Jewry executive director Peter Wertheim.

March 28, 2014, 12:00 am

ABC under fire for Facebook hate

THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has asked the ABC for an explanation after anti-Semitic posts remained on its Facebook page for more than a month.

By Gareth Narunsky

November 28, 2013, 12:00 am

Anti-Semitism on rise but violence abates

ANTI-Semitism in Australia rose sharply in the 12 months to September 30 this year, with 657 anti-Jewish incidents that met the Australian Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC’s) definition of “racist violence”, up by a fifth from the previous year, and the second highest tally on record.

By Peter Kohn

October 8, 2013, 12:00 am

ABC sorry for hate posts

THE ABC has apologised for allowing anti-Semitic comments to remain on the Facebook page of one of its TV channels after the broadcast of a documentary about life in the West Bank.

By Peter Kohn

August 19, 2013, 12:00 am

Facebook pulls anti-Semitic post

FACEBOOK has removed a racist post that stated the “Jewish dream will burn in hell fire for living eternity", and that claimed “God damned you Jews to hell”, after being alerted to the comments by The AJN.

By Joshua Levi

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