{"id":1471856,"date":"2022-05-11T14:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471856"},"modified":"2022-05-11T14:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:59:39","slug":"social-media-execs-to-gather-for-palestine-digital-activism-forum-hosted-by-group-with-terror-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-media-execs-to-gather-for-palestine-digital-activism-forum-hosted-by-group-with-terror-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Execs To Gather For \u2018Palestine Digital Activism Forum\u2019 Hosted By Group With \u2018Terror\u2019 Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsocial-media-execs-to-gather-for-palestine-digital-activism-forum-hosted-by-group-with-terror-ties%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471856&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Representatives from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Clubhouse will gather next week for a forum on \u201cdigital rights\u201d hosted by a pro-Palestine group with ties to terror-aligned groups.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/pdaf.ps\/pdaf2022\/?lang=en\">conference<\/a>, which will occur May 17-19 and has been dubbed the \u201cPalestine Digital Activism Forum,\u201d will include speakers that have used social media to post anti-semitic content and even praise murderers as \u201cheroes.\u201d It will be hosted by 7amleh, a group that complained when tech platforms censored an event with a member of a terrorist organization who was convicted of hijacking a plane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe policies and practices of major tech companies are increasingly impacting human rights, in particular the right to freedom of expression and political association,\u201d 7amleh said after Leila Khaled, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was censored. The co-founder of 7amleh has called Khaled a \u201cresistance icon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even as mainstream American conservatives have faced trigger-happy censorship from top platforms \u2013 with Twitter notoriously blocking the election-eve story on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop despite it being true \u2013 Facebook parent Meta and Twitter are \u201cpartners\u201d of the forum, and 7amleh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2021\/11\/new-platform-monitor-digital-rights-violations-palestine\">says<\/a> it holds \u201cTrusted Partner\u201d status with Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>One event speaker, Hussein Hammad, an official with Al Mezan, shared a Facebook video in 2016 in which a speaker said that people should be taught that Jews control the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/reports\/al-mezan-center-for-human-rights-ties-to-the-pflp-terror-group\/\">NGO Monitor<\/a> reported in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should tell them how America became a game in the hands of global Zionism\u2026 we should teach them\u2026 the truth told by Christian Congressman Herbert Spencer: \u2026The Jews in our country control everything\u2026 all that is left is to change the name of New York to Jew York,\u201d the video said. \u201cBenjamin Franklin said: The undoing of America will be at the hand of the Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hammad also posted a \u201cpicture celebrating the murder of Israeli civilian Michael Mark.\u201d Years prior, the Al Mezan official posted to Facebook a photo lauding a PFLP terrorist who murdered one and injured two more in a ramming and stabbing attack. And in 2017, he received an award from a PFLP branch named after a militant who it brags \u201cparticipated in many military operations that hurt the enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_380673\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-380673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Hammad\u2019s Facebook profile via NGO Monitor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>7amleh, which also goes by the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, focuses on \u201cPalestinian digital rights\u201d and has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/7amleh\/posts\/3441556619284813\">lamented<\/a> Google\u2019s treatment of Ghassan Kanfani, a PFLP spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, 7amleh launched the Palestinian Digital Rights Coalition (PDRC), comprised of itself and other groups <a href=\"https:\/\/7amleh.org\/2019\/12\/08\/palestinian-digital-rights-coalition2\">including<\/a> Alhaq and Addameer. In October, Israel designated Alhaq and Addameer as <a href=\"https:\/\/nbctf.mod.gov.il\/en\/Pages\/211021EN.aspx\">terror organizations<\/a> that are \u201carms\u201d of the PFLP. Diana Alzeer, an Alhaq official, will also be speaking at next week\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>Alhaq has participated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alhaq.org\/advocacy\/6036.html\">other<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alhaq.org\/advocacy\/17809.html\">meetings<\/a> with 7amleh. According to a LinkedIn profile, Ahmad Qadi, 7amleh\u2019s Monitoring and Documentation Coordinator, came to the group directly from a previous job as Databank Coordinator\/Researcher for Alhaq.<\/p>\n<p>According to another LinkedIn profile, 7amleh\u2019s Digital Security Trainer is Ola Marshoud, who was sentenced in 2018 to seven months in prison for her activism with the Islamic Bloc on her college campus. The Islamic Bloc is a Hamas-aligned youth group. Hamas has <a href=\"https:\/\/hamas.ps\/en\/post\/1310\/Hamas-congratulates-Islamic-bloc-for-winning-Birzeit-student-council-elections\">congratulated<\/a> student activists for taking over student councils.<\/p>\n<p>Far-Left Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a member of the \u201csquad\u201d who has a history of anti-Semitic comments, will serve as \u201cinspirational speaker\u201d at the conference. In 2020, Tlaib used Twitter to amplify a post accusing Jews of throwing an eight-year old boy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/rashida-tlaib-irresponsibly-spreads-anti-semitic-blood-libel\">into a well<\/a>. He actually drowned accidentally. Tlaib later deleted the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>7amleh sits on Twitter\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/about.twitter.com\/en\/our-priorities\/healthy-conversations\/trust-and-safety-council\">Trust and Safety Council<\/a>, which plays a role in moderation policies. Twitter did not return a Daily Wire request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>7amleh, which did not return a request for comment either, is also a \u201cTrusted Partner\u201d of Meta, the parent company of Facebook. \u201cMeta provides Trusted Partners with funding to support our shared goals of keeping harmful content off our platforms and helping to prevent risk offline. We partner with expert organizations that represent the voices and experiences of at-risk users around the globe,\u201d Meta says.<\/p>\n<p>7amleh <a href=\"https:\/\/7amleh.org\/annual21\/eng\/\">said<\/a> in 2021 that it \u201chas continued to participate in Facebook\u2019s \u2018Trusted Partner\u2019 program and to contribute to the development and evaluation of Facebook policies. This included policies about peaceful protests, focusing on how violence at public protests is moderated; a policy discussion on LGBTQ+, discussing whether products such as rainbow backgrounds, smileys etc. should be available globally; and participated in a roundtable on brigading and mass harassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It has pressured Facebook to not consider \u201cZionist\u201d to be anti-Semitic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Clubhouse will gather next week for a forum on \u201cdigital rights\u201d hosted by a pro-Palestine group with ties to terror-aligned groups.The conference, which will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1471859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1471859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}