‘Has essentially left ‘anti-Zionism, ‘ a clever euphemism for Jew hatred’
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By Kate Anderson
Daily Caller News Foundation
- Twitter recently changed its Hateful Conduct policy and took steps to properly identify anti-Israel media outlets to help combat rising antisemitism on the platform but Jewish advocates are unsure how much effect the changes will truly have.
- The updated policy says “targeting individuals or groups” by referring to such things as “lynchings” or “genocide” is prohibited and included the Holocaust as an example of language that will be flagged by the company.
- “[W]hile I applaud Twitter for taking these important steps that may be helpful in the short term, the fact that Twitter was so far behind on this issue means this must just be a next step and not a last step for the foreseeable future,” Israel Bitton, president of Americans Against Antisemitism, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Twitter recently made several changes to its policies that may help combat antisemitism on the platform, but Jewish advocates have mixed feelings about the results.
Twitter’s recently revised hate speech policy gained a lot of attention for removing prohibitions that “include[d] targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.” The policy, updated on April 8, was also changed to include references to anti-Jewish rhetoric and activity that would constitute hate speech, and advocates told the Daily Caller News Foundation that they had conflicting feelings about the changes.
Israel Bitton, executive director of Americans Against Antisemitism, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the changes were “a big step in the right direction” but that more was needed.
