[News] Facebook and the Israeli Government Cozy Up

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  Facebook and the Israeli Government Cozy Up

http://imemc.org/article/facebook-and-the-israeli-government-cozy-up/ 
June 20, 2016

Facebook, in present-day Israel, has hired Jordana Cutler as its head of 
Policy and Communications. Cutler is a longtime senior advisor to 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 
<http://imemc.org/?s=netanyahu> and chief of staff to Israeli Ambassador 
Ron Dermer.

According to the Alternative Information Center 
<http://ternativenews.org/english/> in Beit Sahour, Israeli Public 
Security, Strategic Affairs and Information Minister Gilad Erdan 
congratulated Cutler on her appointment, last week, at the Hezliya 
conference, an Israeli security and national policy meeting.

“There has been an advance in dialogue between the State of Israel and 
Facebook,” he acknowledged. He added, “Facebook realizes that it has a 
responsibility to monitor its platform and remove content. I hope it 
will be regulated for good.”

Cutler’s appointment indicates a burgeoning partnership between the 
Israeli government and Facebook. Considering Israel’s propensity to 
arrest Palestinians for Facebook posts and its endeavors to silence the 
Boycott <http://imemc.org/?s=boycott>, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) 
movement, such collaboration is cause for concern.

Since the popular uprising started in October 2015, Israel has arrested 
at least 150 Palestinians over Facebook posts it labeled as “incitement.”

The Israeli government allocated $26 million for 2016 to launch cyber 
warfare to “dismantle the infrastructure” of the BDS movement. The BDS 
National Committee surmises that Israel is be behind cyber attacks meant 
to shut down its website.

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