Monday 15 April 2013

New complaint against Twitter

A French Jewish group that sued Twitter for hosting anti-Semitic content lodged a fresh complaint against the social networking service.

The latest complaint by the Union of Jewish Students of France, or UEJF, was filed on April 12 with the Paris Public Prosecutor’s office against Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. UEJF and another group, J’ACCUSE, said in the complaint that Costolo was “responsible for racial defamation and publicly inciting to discrimination, hate or violence toward Jews.”

The complaint concerns tweets that call for killing Jews and praising the Holocaust.
Read more: http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/04/15/3124176/fresh-complaint-on-anti-semitism-on-twitter-filed-in-france

More than a dozen tombstones at the Jewish section of Milan's main cemetery were vandalized.
Vandals over the weekend tore off Stars of David decorating some 13 tombstones. Police in the northern Italian city are investigating.
Continue reading: http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/04/15/3124256/milan-mayor-condemns-jewish-cemetery-vandalism

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