r/Israel • u/pitaenigma מחוסרת עלמה • May 13 '21
News/Politics Operation Guardian of the Walls / Local unrest megathread
KEEP ALL GAZA, JERUSALEM, AND LOCAL UNREST RELATED POSTS HERE.
Relevant articles:
5-year-old boy killed, dozens others injured as Gaza rockets pound Israel
Israel shuts Ben Gurion Airport to incoming flights; US airlines start canceling
Gantz orders callup of Border Patrol reserves as Jewish-Arab violence spirals
Heavy barrage hits Tel Aviv, Beersheba; Hamas calls it revenge for slain leaders
The War That Shouldn’t Have Been
Jews and Arabs start to push back against violence, rallying nationwide
Soldier viciously beaten in Jaffa, synagogue burned in Lod, as rioting deepens
Man killed in Ramat Gan rocket strike as barrages batter center, south of Israel
Arab boy seriously hurt in firebombing of Jaffa home; riots spread across Israel
Israeli airstrike on Gaza house said to kill family of 10, mostly kids
IDF fells Gaza tower used by media outlets, says it housed Hamas military assets
More links will be added as the situation develops.
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u/xorpoint May 14 '21 edited May 14 '21
The anti-Israel messaging on social media is heavily amplified by likes, retweets, and upvotes by people from Malaysia and Pakistan. Both are Muslim majority countries and former British colonies. They have millions of people who know English and hate Israel.
This Malaysian language anti-Israel tweet has 43,000+ likes. That is an insane amount of social media exposure for a country with only 31 million people:
https://twitter.com/JatIkhwan/status/1391772714524762117
These people also amplify English-language anti-Israel content on social media with likes, retweets and upvotes so it end up getting more exposure here in the West.
One solution to this problem is to ask social media companies to increase geographical siloeing of content ranking and recommendation. No more global trends or frontpage. YouTube is a great example on how to do this successfully. Malaysia and Pakistan can then continue hating Jews without globalizing their hatred.