Dozens of Jewish and pro-Jewish accounts on Twitter have thrown their weight behind the #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate to trigger an exodus from the social media giant.
The activists are urging Jews and allies to stage a 48-hour Twitter boycott starting Monday morning in a bid to urge the company to do more to tackle anti-Semitic content and posts.
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Among those tweeting they would join in were members of the UK Parliament, academics, publicists, activists, and members of pro-Israeli non-governmental organizations.
The walkout follows a string of celebrities taking to Twitter to invoke the beliefs of the Nation of Islam – a movement whose leader, Louis Farrakhan, claimed that Jews are not the real people of Israel.
Why is Antisemitism seen as a second-class form of racism?
Enough.
We're out, @Twitter.
Take this seriously.#NoSafeSpaceForJewHate pic.twitter.com/CIwJM1Hlte
— Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) July 25, 2020
Blue and White MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh said Monday that she will join the two-day boycott.
"It's time for social media to pay attention to the delegitimization, demonization, and double standards of Jews that runs unchecked on their platforms," she tweeted.
The latest outburst came from the UK-based grime rapper Wiley, a Member of the Order of the British Empire, who went Friday on a long-running anti-Semitic rant, alleging, among other things, a link between Jews and the Ku Klux Klan.
On Saturday, Twitter removed some of his posts, while dozens of others remained intact. On the same day, Wiley's manager at the A-List Management company, who is reportedly Jewish, announced he was dropping his contract with the rapper over his anti-Semitic meltdown.
Instagram, where Wiley also posted anti-Semitic content, handed the rapper a seven-day ban.
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