Facebook Removes
Farrakhan “Jewish Termites” Rant, Remains on Twitter
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By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz October 22, 2018 , 5:17 pm
He who conceals
hatred has lying lips, While he who speaks forth slander is a dullard.”
Proverbs 10:18 (The Israel Bible™)
At Aretha Franklin’s funeral from left to right: Louis
Farrakhan, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson and President Bill Clinton.
(Credit: Twitter screen capture)
On Thursday, Facebook removed a video of Minister Louis
Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam movement, in which he compares
Jews to termites. Twitter allowed the
video to stand, saying it does not constitute hate speech.
The video appeared on social media last Wednesday with
the caption, “I’m not an anti-Semite; I’m anti-Termite”. In the video,
Farrakhan gave a sermon in which he compared Jews to termites.
“To the members of the Jewish community that don’t like
me, thank you very much for putting my name all over the planet because of your
fear of what we represent I can go anywhere in the world — I’m not mad at you
because you’re so stupid,” he said at the speech in Detroit. “So when they talk
about Farrakhan, call me a hater — you know what they do — call me an
anti-Semite, stop it! I’m anti termite!”
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President Bill
Clinton and married to Marc Mezvinsky, a Jew, tweeted a harsh rebuke for
Farrakhan as well as for the crowd laughing in response to the anti-Semitic
comment.
Bill and Hillary Clinton were criticized for sharing a
stage with Farrakhan at Aretha Franklin’s funeral last September, though
Farrakhan has called Hillary a “wicked woman,” referring to her as “Satan.”
Farrakhan posted the video on Facebook to his 960,000
followers. Facebook announced on Thursday that they were removing the video
from their platform, stating that it violated their community standards. A
Facebook representative told The Wrap that
it constituted “tier 1 hate speech”. A Tier 1 violation, according to
Facebook’s community standards,
includes attacks comparing a person or group of people to “animals that are
culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior.” Tier 1
infractions also prohibit “violent” and “dehumanizing speech.”
Twitter refused to take down Farrakhan’s offensive tweet,
claiming that its policy banning dehumanizing language announced in September
had not yet gone into effect. This policy was described in a company blog post
as “language that treats others as less than human… Examples can include
comparing groups to animals and viruses (animalistic), or reducing groups to a
tool for some other purpose (mechanistic).”
As reported on Buzzfeed,
Twitter already has a policy against hateful conduct and prohibits attacking
people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation,
gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, and serious
disease.
Twitter’s lack of response drew derision from
conservative pundit Ben Shapiro.
This is not the first time Farrakhan has used Twitter to
denigrate Jews. Earlier this year, he posted tweets about “the Satanic Jew and
the Synagogue of Satan.” Twitter responded at the time by revoking his verified
status.
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