{"id":556462,"date":"2021-06-08T07:20:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T11:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=556462"},"modified":"2021-06-08T07:21:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T11:21:02","slug":"popular-pro-israel-prayer-group-still-under-permanent-facebook-ban-after-it-was-targeted-with-hate-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/popular-pro-israel-prayer-group-still-under-permanent-facebook-ban-after-it-was-targeted-with-hate-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Pro-Israel Prayer Group Still Under Permanent Facebook Ban After It Was Targeted With Hate Comments"},"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%2Fpopular-pro-israel-prayer-group-still-under-permanent-facebook-ban-after-it-was-targeted-with-hate-comments%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=556462&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-958134484-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A pro-Israel prayer group was permanently banned by Facebook last month after it became the target of a barrage of anti-Semitic hate comments.<\/p>\n<p>The popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jerusalemprayerteam.org\/banned-article\/\">Jerusalem Prayer Team<\/a> page was started in 2002 and had amassed more than 76 million followers from around\u00a0the world before Facebook suddenly unpublished the page on May 15. The page\u2019s administrators appealed the decision with Facebook the same day to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>Over the previous three days beginning on May 12, the page had been inundated with what appeared to be a coordinated influx of negative comments, many of them crude and expressing anti-Semitic sentiments.<\/p>\n<p>Among the negative comments on the page were some reading,\u00a0\u201cHitler was right\u201d and\u00a0\u201cU all dead soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother Holocaust is coming soon\u2026.. be ready Jewish people,\u201d one commenter wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are Jews everywhere. We must attack every Jew on planet Earth,\u201d wrote another commenter, adding, \u201cWe must slaughter and kill them, with Allah\u2019s help. We will lacerate and tear them to pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Evans, the page\u2019s founder, <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/israel\/2021\/may\/radical-islamists-targeting-pro-israel-prayer-page-on-facebook-with-extreme-hate-speech?fbclid=IwAR3AA0OWIleGCCaztJJlHufNLr8emWqFOS2G94XM_ZBQ7v6en7OZQ8BHceI\">told<\/a>\u00a0the Christian Broadcasting Network\u00a0that the more than one million negative comments were the result of an \u201corganized attempt by radical Islamic organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evans traveled to the\u00a0Gaza border to witness the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Around the time the prayer group was banned from Facebook, he had traveled to Jerusalem to host a\u00a0television event at the Friends of Zion Museum media center along with several celebrities including actor Jon Voight and Pastor Robert Jeffress.<\/p>\n<p>The high volume of negative comments began during the 11 days of violence between Israel and Hamas last month during which more than 250 people were killed before the fighting was suspended when Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict\u00a0began on May 10\u00a0when Hamas fired rockets into Israel following a clash between Palestinians and Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Israel responded with air strikes targeting Hamas in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>In a May 17 email to the Jerusalem Prayer Team administrators, Facebook informed them that\u00a0it appeared that Facebook\u2019s \u201cInternal Team already came up with their decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The page was \u201cdeleted by our system due to being not Policy Compliant,\u201d a Facebook support representative wrote\u00a0in an email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no further action that we can take,\u201d Facebook added. \u201cPlease consider this decision final.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Jerusalem Prayer Team had ranked 23rd in Facebook\u2019s most followed pages, and the group claims it has\u00a0spent millions of dollars with Facebook over the last seven years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Facebook page became the meeting place for our online world-wide church,\u201d the administrators of the group wrote in a summary of the events surrounding the ban they provided to The Daily Wire. \u201cWe conducted LIVE prayer meetings, multiple times a week\u00a0on the page and tens of thousands of people were engaged daily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The page administrators expressed that they were \u201camazed\u00a0and disappointed\u201d that Facebook allowed such comments to remain visible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had understood they had a corporate commitment to\u00a0prevent offensive or false information from being displayed, but in our\u00a0case, there was no apparent intervention by Facebook,\u201d the administrators said.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s decision also comes as incidents of anti-Semitism <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/26\/us\/anti-semitism-attacks-violence.html\">spiked<\/a> in the U.S. during the conflict between Israel and Hamas.\u00a0During the nearly two weeks of clashes, the Anti-Defamation League <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/blog\/antisemitic-incidents-reported-to-adl-increase-sharply-during-israel-hamas-conflict\">recorded<\/a> 222 incidents of anti-Semitic harassment, vandalism, and violence across the country, a 75% increase from 127 during the previous two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pro-Israel prayer group was permanently banned by Facebook last month after it became the target of a barrage of anti-Semitic hate comments.The popular Jerusalem Prayer Team page was started &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279572,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-958134484-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Popular Pro-Israel Prayer Group Still Under Permanent Facebook Ban After It Was Targeted With Hate Comments","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-958134484-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Popular Pro-Israel Prayer Group Still Under Permanent Facebook Ban After It Was Targeted With Hate Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556462","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}