I think we need to discuss how Jewish organizations accidentally make space for antisemitism on social media, either because they are so naive about the subject or because they just don't care.
Hez Mazzig, who I'm sure doesn't care, created the Jewish Privilege hashtag a few weeks ago. He actually selected a white supremacist phrase and I'm sure knew that white supremacists would jump in, especially targeting Jews who responded using the hash tag.
Website like Tablet and Forward post their content to Twitter but then neither block nor report antisemites who respond -- and they respond in droves -- meaning both that they have created an unmoderated space for antisemitism and a place where Jews who respond are targeted.
As I just mentioned, this 48-hour walk off created and abandoned a specifically Jewish hashtag, which is now being colonized by antisemites.
They're not a Jewish organization, but the Auschwitz Museum has a history of responding to Jews who identity the concentration camp as Polish, demanding that they retract the statement, and with that comes a flood of Polish Holocaust deniers.
Twitter has terrible and wildly inconsistent tools for addressing hate speech. We need to be savvier about how we make space for it, and how that space can be used to target Jews on this site.
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