Zuckerberg is in Trouble with the Jews!

The guy invented Facebook and got himself about as ridiculously wealthy as one can possibly be.  Good for him.  The problem, of course, is that since Facebook is the premier social networking site in the universe, it is also the premier anti-Semitic website in the universe.  It is unclear to me, however, that this is saying much.  Facebook may be the premier antisemitic website, but it is also the premier website that promotes bowling and skydiving and tiddly-winks.

This is not Mark Zuckerberg’s fault.  It’s simply the nature of the beast.

People discuss everything on Facebook, which is why they also discuss the various ways in which Jews and Zionists and Israel allegedly suck.  The reason that there is less discussion about the suckiness of Rosicrucians or Mennonites is because neither Rosicrucians, nor Mennonites, are subject to the degree of traditional and historical irrational race hate as are Jews and because neither Rosicrucians, nor Mennonites, have a beleaguered state to hang that hatred upon.

Furthermore, I don’t get much sense that Zuckerberg cares about either the Jewish people or the Jewish State of Israel.  I could very well be wrong, because I simply don’t care that much about either Facebook or Mark Zuckerberg, and therefore have not bothered to look into it.

Nonetheless, there is a protest happening today at the offices of Facebook at 1601 Willow Road, in Menlo Park, CA.  A couple of hundred people may show up in order to encourage Zuckerberg to curb genocidal antisemitic race hate on his website and I would encourage him to do so, as well.

It is sometimes necessary to remind people – because they often forget – that supporting genocidal race hatred toward the tiny Jewish minority in the world is, perhaps, not so good, and that if you support the BDS or anti-Zionism that is precisely what you are supporting.

BDS and anti-Zionism mean Jew Hatred and nothing else.

Those who purvey that hatred, such as Zuckerberg, are not necessarily antisemites.  I very much doubt that Zuckerberg is.  The problem with the purveyors is not that they are anti-Semitic, but that they simply do not care and they very much want those of us who do care to simply shut the hell up.

I want to thank our friend Jay in Philadelphia (a Big Tip ‘O the Kippa) for alerting me to this and very much hope that Zuckerberg and his people take some notice.

{I wouldn’t count on it, however.}

Michael Lumish is the editor of Israel Thrives.