Netanyahu’s son gets Facebook suspension
THE son of Benjamin Netanyahu was banned from Facebook temporarily after writing a series of anti-muslim and anti-palestinian posts.
Yair Netanyahu, 27, said he had been suspended for 24 hours after saying all Muslims should get out of Israel.
“There will not be peace here until:
1. All the Jews leave the land of Israel.
2. All the Muslims leave the land of Israel. I prefer the second option,” he wrote.
He later added: “Do you know where there are no terror attacks? In Iceland and Japan. Coincidentally there’s also no Muslim population there.”
Both posts were removed by Facebook but he then posted a call to “avenge the deaths” of two Israeli soldiers killed in the occupied West Bank.
“There will never be peace with those monsters in the form of men that have called themselves ‘Palestinians’ since 1964,” he wrote.
That post was also deleted and Mr Netanyahu reposted it with a comment lashing out at “thought police”.
Facebook prohibits the reposting of material that has already been removed and it appears that it was this violation that led to his suspension. The Israeli leader’s son has a history of making provocative Facebook posts. Last year, he posted a meme implying George Soros, the Jewish financier, was secretly controlling the world.
American neo-nazis praised Mr Netanyahu for its anti-semitic content. His playboy antics have also attracted attention. One of his drivers recorded
‘Do you know where there are no terror attacks? In Iceland and Japan. There are no Muslims there’
him on a drive round Tel Aviv strip clubs complaining that his friend, the son of an energy millionaire, would not lend him 400 shekels (£87).
♦ A judge in Silicon Valley has ordered emails between an MP and lawyers for a company suing Facebook to be handed over to the social media giant.
Judge Raymond Swope, of the superior court of California, said lawyers for app developer Six4three, must release communications from Damian Collins, chairman of the digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS) committee. Last month, Six4three founder Ted Kramer was ordered by Parliament to hand over private Facebook documents related to the lawsuit.