Twitter has relented over the use of an image of a Holocaust-era yellow star by an online antisemitism watchdog after an intervention by the Community Security Trust (CST).
Yesterday the @GnasherJew account, which exposes antisemitism in the Labour Party, tweeted a screenshot of a message from Twitter announcing that it had blocked the account. It would be unlocked, it said, once the offending image was removed.
The social media platform said the photo of the yellow star with “Jude” – the German word for Jew – inscribed on it was in breach of its rules concerning hateful imagery.
The decision outraged some social media users, who pointed out that Twitter had targeted a website that aims to combat antisemitism while not acting against genuinely antisemitic content.
