Sacha Baron Cohen Tells TikTok Leaders They Are ‘Creating the Biggest Antisemitic Movement Since the Nazis’
As surging numbers of progressive Zoomers use TikTok to voice their antisemitism, support for Hamas, and praise of Osama bin Laden, a group of left-wing Jewish celebrities is sounding the alarm, reportedly urging TikTok leaders to take action.
Actors including Sacha Baron Cohen, Debra Messing, and Amy Schumer spoke with TikTtok executives on Wednesday night when the conversation grew fiery, according to a New York Times report about the private call.
“What is happening at TikTok is it is creating the biggest antisemitic movement since the Nazis,” said Cohen,
“Shame on you,” Cohen told TikTok’s head of operations Adam Presser.
Will & Grace star Debra Messing said TikTok — which is a China-owned company — has become “the main platform for the dissemination of Jew hate.”
The actress focused on the growing popularity of the expression “from the river to the sea” — the Palestinian slogan calling for the eradication of Israel from the map. The chant has become a trendy expression among young progressives, many of whom are posting it to the comments sections of Jewish users.
TikTok leaders prevaricated when it came to company policy regarding the antisemitic slogan.
“Where it is clear exactly what they mean — ‘kill the Jews, eradicate the state of Israel’ — that content is violative and we take it down,” Presser reportedly said on the call.
“Our approach up until October 7, continuing to today, has been that for instances where people use the phrase where it’s not clear, where someone is just using it casually, then that has been considered acceptable speech.”
Messing wasn’t buying it.
The actress argued it was “much more responsible to bar it at this juncture than to say, ‘Oh, well, some people, they use it in a different way than it actually was created to mean.’” She added” “I understand that you are in a very, very difficult and complicated place, but you also are the main platform for the dissemination of Jew hate.”
TikTok has become a cesspool of anti-Jewish hate in the weeks since Hamas terrorists launched their massacre of Israelis on October 7.
Phrases including “Hitler was right” or “I hope you end up like Anne Frank” have become commonplace on the social media platform.
This week, left-wing TikTokers started praising Osama bin Laden, claiming the 9/11 terrorist attacks were justified because bin Laden belonged to an “oppressed” group.
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IBM, EU Suspend Advertising on Elon Musk’s X/Twitter over Antisemitism Allegations
Major advertisers IBM and the European Union have ceased advertising on Elon Musk’s X/Twitter social media platform due to escalating concerns over antisemitic content and “hate speech.”
AP News reports that IBM and the EUrecently made the decision to withdraw their advertising from X/Twitter owned by billionaire Elon Musk. This significant move comes in response to growing concerns about the presence of pro-Nazi content and other forms of hate speech on the platform, which have been highlighted by Musk’s own controversial tweets that the organizations view as endorsing antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Breitbart News recently reported on the controversy of Musk replying with his agreement to a tweet widely viewed as antisemitic:
An X/Twitter user appeared to push the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, claiming that Jewish communities “have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”
“I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much,” the X/Twitter user added.
Musk responded to this post writing, “You have said the actual truth.”
IBM’s decision was triggered by a report revealing that its advertisements were being displayed alongside material praising Nazis. This marks a significant setback for the platform as it attempts to regain the trust of major brands and secure crucial advertising revenue. In a statement, IBM said: “IBM has zero tolerance for hate speech and discrimination and we have immediately suspended all advertising on X while we investigate this entirely unacceptable situation.”
Similarly, the EU’s executive branch announced a pause in its advertising on X, along with other platforms, citing a surge in hate speech as a primary reason. This stance aligns with the EU’s broader efforts to address online hate speech and misinformation.
In contrast, X/Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has emphasized the platform’s commitment to combating antisemitism and discrimination, stating there is no place for such content in the world. However, despite these assurances, the platform’s approach to managing sensitive content remains under scrutiny.
UK Guardian Newspaper Takes Down Tik Tok-Viral Bin Laden ‘Letter to America’
AFP — British newspaper The Guardian has removed from its website a 21-year-old message written by Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, after it was shared several million times on social media.
Bin Laden’s “Letter to America” began being shared on TikTok on Tuesday, sparking a fierce debate about US backing for Israel in its current war against Hamas.
Bin Laden was the mastermind of the September 11 attacks 22 years ago that killed nearly 3,000 people by crashing passenger jets into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon.
The White House sharply criticized the online phenomenon and TikTok said it was taking measures to remove the posts involved.
The transcript includes bin Laden’s assertion that the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001 due to its support of Israel.
Links to the original were replaced on the Guardian website with a statement saying it had been shared “without the full context”.
“This page previously displayed a document containing, in translation, the full text of Osama bin Laden’s ‘letter to the American people’, which was reported on in the Observer on Sunday 24 November 2002,” it wrote.
“The transcript published on our website had been widely shared on social media without the full context. Therefore we decided to take it down and direct readers instead to the news article that originally contextualised it.”
The White House in a statement on X, formerly Twitter, said “no one should ever insult the 2,977 American families still mourning loved ones by associating themselves with the vile words of Osama bin Laden.”
“Particularly now, at a time of rising antisemitic violence in the world, and just after Hamas terrorists carried out the worst slaughter of the Jewish people since the Holocaust in the name of the same conspiracy theories,” it added.
– ‘Aggressively removing’ –
TikTok said on X that it was “proactively and aggressively removing this content and investigating how it got onto our platform.”
“This is not unique to TikTok and has appeared across multiple platforms and the media,” the Chinese-owned app added.
Bin Laden’s message, released a year after 9/11, outlined his objections to Western activities in Muslim nations, condemning the United States for its backing of Israel and its approach towards the Palestinian regions.
It also denounces what he described as Western “lies, immorality and debauchery” and argued that attacks against civilians and the United States were justified as a result.
“They threw hundreds of thousands of soldiers against us and have formed an alliance with the Israelis to oppress us and occupy our land — that was the reason for our response on the eleventh,” it said.
The origin of the trend has been pinned by various media outlets on a video posted Tuesday by a TikTok influencer with 12 million likes on her profile.
“I need everyone to stop what they’re doing right now and go read — it’s literally two pages — go read ‘A Letter to America’,” the influencer wrote.
“Come back here and let me know what you think. Because I feel like I’m going through like an existential crisis right now, and a lot of people are. So I just need someone else to be feeling this too.”
The letter has been received with widely positive comments by social media users with trending searches on TikTok including “Osama letter to America summary” and “a letter to America explained”.
TikTok insisted that the number of videos involved was small and that “reports of it trending on our platform are inaccurate.”
After nearly 10 years as the world’s most wanted man, bin Laden was tracked down and killed by US special forces at his compound in Pakistan in 2011.
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