{"id":2201286,"date":"2024-03-18T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T19:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiktok-supporters-blame-jews-for-congressional-ban\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T15:57:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T19:57:29","slug":"tiktok-supporters-blame-jews-for-congressional-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiktok-supporters-blame-jews-for-congressional-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Advocates Attribute Congressional Prohibition to Anti-Semitic Theories"},"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\">16<\/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%2Ftiktok-supporters-blame-jews-for-congressional-ban%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=2201286&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--><div>\n<h2>The Controversy Behind TikTok&#8217;s Proscribed Status<\/h2>\n<p>Amidst swirling debates, some TikTok supporters\u2062 are pointing fingers at &#8220;<strong>pro-Israel lobbying groups<\/strong>&#8221; and Jewish influence for the sudden urgency\u200b Congress has demonstrated in pursuing\u200c a potential ban on the app\u2014a platform the U.S. intelligence community suspects could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/126-ex-generals-admirals-warn-about-biden-u-s-in-deep-peril-health-a-concern-7-red-flags-emerging\/\" title=\"BREAKING: 126 Ex-Generals And Admirals Say Biden Is Mentally Unfit For President\">jeopardize national security<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Spreading Conspiracy Theories<\/h3>\n<p>On platforms such as X, Reddit, and beyond, a \u200ddisturbing narrative accuses Jewish-American figures of opposing TikTok because it serves as a hub for anti-Israel \u2064discourse, particularly \u200dsurrounding \u200bconflicts like the one against Hamas.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One influential X account directs culpability for a TikTok ban at Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL, perpetuating age-old anti-Semitic allegations that Jewish power silences Israel&#8217;s critics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These conjectures\u2064 are happening against a backdrop of escalating \u200canti-Jewish \u200bsentiment in the U.S., recently inflamed by the October 7th terror attacks by Hamas on Israel.<\/p>\n<h3>Provocative Online Commentary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>An \u2064X user suggested Gen Z&#8217;s \u2062support for Palestine scared figures like Greenblatt and linked it to the \u2062legislative rush \u200dto ban TikTok.<\/li>\n<li>Another alleged the ban&#8217;s haste was undeniably the\u200d work\u200b of pro-Israel\u200b factions, aggravated by TikTok featuring Israeli military misdeeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Legislative Responses and Accusations<\/h3>\n<p>As Congress&#8217;s TikTok restriction advances, Senator Marco Rubio warns that the CCP could be exploiting the app to incite discord, labeling the anti-Semitic rhetoric as malicious.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio \u200bis spearheading a\u2064 similar Senate proposal to\u200c curtail TikTok&#8217;s operations unless ByteDance severs ties,\u200c mirroring the House&#8217;s stance.<\/p>\n<h3>Jewish Organizations Weigh In<\/h3>\n<p>Public\u2063 support for the ban among Jewish groups like the ADL is rooted in their concern over an uptick in \u2064anti-Semitic content and pro-Hamas propaganda on the app.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An ADL report in 2023 underscored \u200da surprising amount of anti-Semitic content dodging TikTok&#8217;s moderation,\u2064 with Jewish staffers also expressing an unsettling\u200c work environment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>A Wave\u2062 of Skepticism<\/h3>\n<p>Despite \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-china-threat-is-real-and-upon-us\/\" title=\"The China Threat is Real and Upon Us\">political figures<\/a> like Democrat Pamela Keith hinting\u200c at AIPAC&#8217;s\u2064 hand in the TikTok vote, there&#8217;s no\u200b evidence of\u200d their involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, online discourse \u2064can sometimes deviate to baseless conspiracy theories\u2014like those seen in the comments of a pro-ban post by\u200d Rep. Dan Crenshaw or speculative Reddit threads.<\/p>\n<h3>The Undercurrent of Unfounded Claims<\/h3>\n<p>The use of TikTok as a scapegoat by\u200c fringe groups underscores a larger issue\u2014how quickly misinformation\u200d can spiral \u2064into harmful stereotypes, an echo of \u200dconcerns voiced by publications like <em>Commentary<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Published under:<\/strong><br \/>\n            <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/aipac\/\" title=\"View all posts in AIPAC\">AIPAC<\/a><\/span>,<br \/>\n  \u200c<br \/>\n            <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/anti-defamation-league\/\" title=\"View all posts in Anti-Defamation League\">Anti-Defamation League<\/a><\/span>,<br \/>\n          \u200d<br \/>\n            <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/things-that-donald-trump-did-not-do\/\" title=\"Things That Donald Trump Did Not Do\">anti-semitism<\/a>\/&#8221; title=&#8221;View all posts in Anti-Semitism&#8221;>Anti-Semitism<\/a><\/span>,<br \/>\n  \u200b \u2063<br \/>\n            <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/ccp\/\" title=\"View all posts in CCP\">CCP<\/a><\/span>,<br \/>\n           \u200b<br \/>\n            <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/israel\/\" title=\"View all posts in Israel\">Israel<\/a><\/span>,<br \/>\n  \u200d<br \/>\n            <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/marco-rubio\/\" title=\"View all posts in Marco Rubio\">Marco Rubio<\/a><\/span>,<br \/>\n     \u2062<br \/>\n            <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/propaganda\/\" title=\"View all posts in Propaganda\">Propaganda<\/a><\/span>,<br \/>\n           \u200c<br \/>\n            <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/reddit\/\" title=\"View all posts in Reddit\">Reddit<\/a><\/span>,<br \/>\n  \u200c  \u2062 \u200b       \u200d<br \/>\n            <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/social-media\/\" title=\"View all posts in Social Media\">Social Media<\/a><\/span>,<br \/>\n      \u2064     \u2063<br \/>\n            <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/tiktok\/\" title=\"View all posts in TikTok\">TikTok<\/a><\/span>,<br \/>\n            <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/twitter\/\" title=\"View all posts in Twitter\">Twitter<\/a><\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online TikTok fans allege that &#8220;pro-Israel lobbyists&#8221; and Jews swayed Congress to expedite a TikTok ban, deemed a security risk by U.S. intelligence. Conspiracy theories with anti-Semitic undertones are rampant across forums like X and Reddit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2201287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-scaled-e1624462858305.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2201286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-scaled-e1624462858305.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201286","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\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2201287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}