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Meta content court rules ‘from the river to the sea’ isn’t hate speech (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Meta’s company-funded oversight body ruled Wednesday that the social media giant shouldn’t automatically take down posts using the phrase “from the river to the sea,” a decades-old rallying cry for Palestinian nationalism that has reignited a national debate about the boundaries of acceptable speech.

Meta’s Oversight Board, an independent collection of academics, experts and lawyers who oversee thorny content decisions on the platform, said posts they examined using the phrase didn’t violate the company’s rules against hate speech, inciting violence or praising dangerous organizations.

“While [the phrase] can be understood by some as encouraging and legitimizing antisemitism and the violent elimination of Israel and its people, it is also often used as a political call for solidarity, equal rights and self-determination of the Palestinian people, and to end the war in Gaza,” the board said in its ruling.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is an extremely false equivalence, since palestinians are native to palestine and zionists are mostly european (and african, asian, etc. anywhere that kids can be brainwashed) invaders. It's a call for palestinian freedom/return but it's a genocidal slogan for zionists.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not though is it? "From the river to the sea" is referring to a Palestinian territory spanning from the Mediterranean to the Jordan. It's referring to establishing a state over that area the exact same way Jews use it. The question meta weighed up was not "what are state actors doing". Because if they had done so and had decided the saying was explicitly support for Hamas then they would have banned it, because Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation according to the US.

Instead they explain they just because an individual says it, then the reader cannot infer the support of a state level group like Hamas. Nor is the saying in itself an encouragement to hurt Jewish people.

But this also means of a Jewish individual says it then the reader cannot infer support of the action of a state level group like the Israeli government. Nor can it be taken in itself to be an explicit encouragement to violence against Palestinians.

Cake and eat it etc.

(Also, since it came up, over 70% of Jews in Israel were born in Israel. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelis. I assume you're not the kind of person to say "but where are you really from?")

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

The slogan From the River to the Sea is about Palestinian liberation that started in the 60s by the PLO for a democratic secular state, not Genocide. The Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad in 1966 maybe, but he's not Palestinian.

Additionally, Netanyahu has explicitly said "between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty."