Kill a Jew Day on Facebook...

More and more of these sites are popping up....

Simon Wiesenthal Center researchers have uncovered over two dozen FACEBOOK sites with titles like “Kill a Jew Year” and “Kill a Jew Day” during the past week alone. “Some have been posted from the United States, others from the United Kingdom”, said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center who directs the Jewish Human Rights NGO’s Digital Terrorism and Hate project. He indicated that the Wiesenthal Center had received numerous complaints about these recent threatening postings and others like them on FACEBOOK.

“FACEBOOK officials have been very cooperative in removing these calls for anti- Jewish violence, but the hate continues to sprout at an alarming rate. We know they are committed to thwarting online bigotry, but if such a trend continues, we will urge FACEBOOK and other social networking hubs to track and preempt online bigots more aggressively”, Cooper added.

Wiesenthal Center officials said they were particularly disturbed by these FACEBOOK postings as they were inspired by a national “Kick a Ginger Day” last November 20th, which actually resulted in numerous assaults against redheads.