The Anti-Defamation League has sent a letter to its supporters rejecting Facebook’s stance in which it refuses to remove posts that deny the existence of the Holocaust.
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called on Facebook to remove the posts “because Holocaust denial is a form of hate, and at its core — anti-Semitism,” the letter read, also referencing an op-ed by Greenblatt in The New York Daily News.
In an interview with Recode earlier in the week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don’t think they are intentionally getting it wrong,” Greenblatt quoted in the op-ed.
“The problem is,” Greenblatt said in response, “[Zuckerberg] fails to understand that Holocaust denial is not simply a gross distortion of the facts, but is also a pernicious form of anti-Semitic hate speech that serves no other purpose than to attack Jews.”
“Facebook does try to ban hate speech,” Greenblatt continued, “and should root out Holocaust denial on those grounds, not simply because it’s false.”
“Facebook has a moral and ethical oblication not to allow its dissemination,” Greenblatt concluded in the op-ed. “ADL will continue to challenge Facebook on this position and call on them to regard Holocaust denial as a violation of their community guidelines.”
Greenblatt also appeared on CBS News to speak about the issue.
The letter asked for support in continuing to fight hate and was signed by Frederic L. Bloch, the ADL senior vice president of growth for the organization.
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