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Free
speech takes a back seat: Pro-Israel group demands Hamas tweet ban
Tuesday November 20, 2012 06:57:31 PM,
Agencies
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Dubai:
A Christian pro-Israel group has kicked off an online campaign
demanding that microblogging site Twitter ban members of Hamas
from using the service, a media report said.
The group, Christians United for Israel (CUFI), hoped to drum up
support from more than its 1 million members amid an ongoing
deadly conflict between Israel and Palestinians, al Arabiya
reported Tuesday.
The latest violence has claimed more than 100 lives in Gaza.
Israel launched a massive air campaign on the Strip since last
Wednesday with the declared goal of deterring Hamas’ rocket
attacks, it said.
CUFI, the largest pro-Israel group in America, begun placing their
names on a letter to Twitter that demands the company “observe
both the United States law and your own Terms of Service by
immediately banning Hamas, the Izzadeen Al-Qassam Brigades and any
related entities from operating Twitter accounts (e.g. @AlqassamBrigade),”
reported the U.S.-based WND news website.
Both the Israeli army spokesperson (@IDFspokesperson) and @AlqassamBrigade
began trading insults over Twitter over the past week.
On Wednesday, the IDF announced its attacks on Hamas via Twitter:
“We recommend no Hamas operatives, whether low level or senior
leaders, show their faces above ground in the days ahead.”
The message prompted a response from Hamas, with the @AlqassamBrigade
tweeting: “Our blessed hands will reach your leaders and soldiers
wherever they are (You Opened Hell Gates on Yourselves).”
The tweet was reposted (retweeted) on the microblogging network
over 600 times.
Meanwhile, CUFI warns that such messages should be prohibited,
pointing at the U.S. designation of Hamas as foreign terror group,
which they argue should make it illegal for any U.S. corporation
to provide “material support.”
“By allowing Hamas to have a Twitter account, you are providing it
with an important ‘service’ and extremely effective
‘communications equipment’ which are central to its primary
mission of terrorizing the Israeli people and using civilian
deaths to score political points,” the CUFI said in the letter to
Twitter which will also be sent to the local office of the United
States Attorney, the report states.
The letter also notes that Twitter’s own Terms of Service limits
the operations to those who “are not a person barred from
receiving services under the laws of the United States", the al
Arabiya report said.
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