The Anti-Defamation League said it “respectfully disagrees” with Meta’s board’s decision.
Meta ’s independent Oversight Board ruled Wednesday that the controversial, anti-Israel slogan “from the river to the sea” is not hate speech.
The board looked at three cases in which users reported posts using the phrase and ruled that the posts did not break Meta’s hate speech rules because they did not explicitly call for violence against Jewish or Israeli people.Nvidia CEO loses $10B as company's stock plummets Israeli and Jewish advocates have decried the use of the phrase, which Hamas adopted to call for the violent destruction of Israel.
“It is important to note that demanding justice for Palestinians, or calling for a Palestinian state, should not mean, as this hateful phrase posits, denying the right of the State of Israel to exist,” the ADL said. One was a comment encouraging people to “speak up” about the conflict and another was a share of a post by a pro-Palestinian organization, the board said.“Because the phrase does not have a single meaning, a blanket ban on content that includes the phrase, a default rule towards removal of such content, or even using it as a signal to trigger enforcement or review, would hinder protected political speech in unacceptable ways,” the board ruled.
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