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New Facebook feature allows users to upload anti-Israel and antisemitic images

November 20, 2015 09:31
The now-deleted Statue of Liberty GIF

ByAnonymous, Anonymous

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A new feature on Facebook allows users to upload anti-Israel and antisemitic animated images to their profiles.

The images - or GIFs - come from the GIF supplier Giphy.com, who also supply their GIFs directly to the Facebook Messenger app.

Users can search for any term on Giphy to find animated images uploaded by other users. A search for the term “Israel” earlier this week revealed an animated Star of David crashing into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, reflecting an anti-Israel conspiracy theory that Israel was behind 9/11.

Searches for the term “Jew” and “Zionist” also reveal offensive and sometimes apparently irrelevant GIFs.