Facebook and its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg are being sued for not immediately taking down a page calling for a Third Intifada against Israel. In the lawsuit, Klayman calls on Facebook to remove all pages using the words “Third Intifada” or any other pages that encourage violence toward Jews from Facebook.
“While some kinds of comments and content may be upsetting for someone -- criticism of a certain culture, country, religion, lifestyle, or political ideology, for example -- that alone is not a reason to remove the discussion," the statement said. "We strongly believe that Facebook users have the ability to express their opinions, and we don’t typically take down content, groups or pages that speak out against countries, religions, political entities, or ideas.”
The exact meaning of Third Intifada, has not yet been clearly defined. However, it is currently being referred to Israeli–Palestinian conflict which forms part of the wider Arab–Israeli conflict. In the original page, Palestinians are urged to take to the streets after Friday prayers on May 15 and begin an uprising in the vein of the first two popular uprisings. Although the page was removed, a new page already exists in its place with the same name of "Third Palestinian Intifada." Minister Yuli Edelstein wrote a letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, warning that the page includes calls to kill Jews and to liberate Jerusalem through violence.
According to the Facebook’s terms of service, members can’t post content that is “threatening” or “incites violence.” However, Facebook’s decisions about when to enforce this policy have been pretty arbitrary in the past.Facebook must remove this page, because this sort of pages are not just some kind of comments and contents and no one should be allowed to express their opinion if is harmful to the social integrity.
