This is what is intended to be the first in a series of translated pieces by my friend Saed Karzoun, a journalist, musician, and blogger from Ramallah. Original piece in Arabic by Saed Karzoun Translated by Raghda Butros As I sit watching television, listening to the radio, reading the papers or browsing the Internet, amidst […]
Re-posted from The Huffington Post: The JIDF, or Jewish Internet Defense Force, started as a collective of activists dedicated to the noble cause of combating antisemitic speech online. The group stood up against sites such as Facebook and Wikipedia in attempts to get them to remove hateful speech, and in mid-2009 achieved success in lobbying […]
We’re in the midst of an attempt to get the #Gaza hashtag to trend on Twitter (if you don’t know what that means, let me Google that for you), and are learning bit by bit what doesn’t work (and of course, what does). Twitter is an ever-changing platform, so what mattered one year ago may […]