Israel’s TikTok Extremists
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Sophia Goodfriend writes about the growing influence of TikTok as a purveyor of extremism, nowhere more so than in Israel.
There right-wing extremists have embraced TikTok with politicians like Ben Gvir, Benjamin Netanyahu and Miri Regev using it to build their young supporters’ base
But Ben Gvir is undoubtedly one of the more successful, successfully tapping into two pivotal and growing demographics: religiously motivated settlers, and socio-economically disadvantaged Mizrahi communities far from Israel’s monied urban centres.
The content of his and others’ posts is chilling, focussed as it is on ethno-nationalist themes of Jewish supremacy, ethnic cleansing, and annexation.
RK
This article was originally published by Jewish Currents on Tue 22 Aug 2023. Read the original here.
Israel’s TikTok Extremists
Far-right content has taken Israeli TikTok by storm, rallying the country’s youth in support of Jewish supremacy.
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“Digital rights” means digital censorship and we can be absolutely sure that the first thing to be censored will be anti Zionists not the Zionist thugs using Tik Tok. If it wasn’t for largely uncensored social media I would know hardly anything about what is really going in Israel and Palestine because the mainstream media self censor. I know this from personal experience because I know how ignorant I was before the advent of social media.
You can’t have it both ways: you either have a regulated media or not and if it is regulated you have to ask who is doing the regulation and who appoints them. I’m sure the Community Security Trust would jump at the chance they would probably offer to do the job for free.
No Sophia Goodfriend, fascist thugs using Tik Tok is a price we all have to pay for a social media largely free of political censorship and if you read Professor Ilan Pappe on 1948 you will see that awful opinions were expressed and dreadful deeds done long before the Internet was even dreamed of.
Tik Tok I have noticed has become awash with Zionists peddling their hate for the Palestinians while denying their own Apartheid regime and misleading those who don’t understand the Zionist ideology.
Ben Gvir “we need the death penalty for terrorists.”
By ‘terrorists’ we know he means Palestinians, not the members of the IDF who are the best equipped terrorist force on earth.