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JERUSALEM POST
The Foreign Ministry plans to create a new App to locate the words “knife” and “Jew” on social media as part of its new offensive against Palestinian incitement on the internet.
Under the auspices of the Foreign Ministry’s communication’s department a new office of some eight to ten people, with backgrounds in Arabic and technology, will be set up to counter the wave of incitement against Israel and Jews on social media.
The new office will locate inflammatory video clips and contact the relevant social media networks such as YouTube, Google and Facebook.
It will also develop codes and create Apps to help recognize incitement on the web.
“This is a big step in the war on incitement,” said Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely who is helping to lead the initiative.
The daily attacks against Israel, mostly by teenagers and children, are the result of incitement on social networks, she said.
This daily war on incitement needs the response of a core operational staff that will coordinate the work that is needed against the social media networks, said Hotovely.
Although the Foreign Ministry is already engaged in such work, there is no formal body that handles the issue, she said.
“I’m certain that once the incitement drops, so will the violence,” said Hotovely.
In a related development, the IDF on Sunday shut down a Palestinian radio station in Hebron for the third time this month.
IDF troops raided the offices of Radio Darim, which is located in the Ras a-Jura neighborhood of Hebron, before dawn on Sunday. Soldiers confiscated broadcasting equipment and computers.
The army said in a statement that is closed down the station due to “incitement” that was broadcast on its airwaves.
Earlier this month, the army shut down Radio Hebron and Al-Hurriya, two other radio stations which have been accused of broadcasting anti-Israel content.
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Attacks from children and teenagers?
These people are … beyond stupid and desperate.
How about an app for mad settlers with incendiary devices or the autos they use to drive down Palestinians?
I have an idea. Let’s have a contest to come up with the stupidest “save Israel” Apps we can come up with.
It really shouldn’t be all that hard.