Facebook banned me for supporting Palestinian lives

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I made a Facebook post, and I kid you not my caption was literally verbatim: "You won't see this on CNN and Fox News" followed by a video of a Palestinian boy crying for how the world doesn't give a damn about their lives. How does Facebook show its love for Palestinian lives and show that our lives matter and that the boy has nothing to cry about? By banning my post under supposedly violating guidelines by posting hate. I. Kid. You. Not. I'm banned for 24 hours for preaching "hate". I said not one word against Jews, heck I didnt even say a word against Israel (not saying that its wrong to condemn Israel but this post I didnt even mention Israel in my post). My caption was no more, no less: "You won't see this on CNN and Fox News". The video didnt contain any mention of violence, incitement to violence, heck not even anything political. It was a tearful video of a boy crying that Palestinian lives dont matter.

Apparently Palestinian lives are so worthless and unnecessary even posting about it constitutes hate. Yep, affirming the value and dignity of our lives is now an existential threat, Facebook is such a joke and I hope it goes bankrupt

This makes me so mad. Palestinians can get shot at, killed, kneed on (fun fact to those who dont know: some American police officers actually receive training from the IDF and the knee tactic Chauvin used against Floyd is a known Israeli IDF tactic regularly used against Palestinian civilians) and even humiliated on a daily basis, but even nonviolently affirming our humanity and dignity is now considered hate. I literally got called Anti-Semitic on this forum, this forum here WP, both recently and many times years ago, for speaking out against how Palestinians get treated by Israeli. Mind you Palestinians are Semites and direct descendants of the Canaanites and thus we are some of the oldest Semites in the world, but somehow just existing and affirming our right to exist makes us Anti-Semitic.

This is such a joke. Such a damn joke. 24 hour Facebook ban just for affirming Palestinian lives. I'm so sick of this. So sick of the world treating my people's existence as so unnecessary and so unwanted that its taken for granted that we can be erased and exterminated but God forbid one of us refuses to meekly comply with our subjugation and the world condemns us as terrorists and calls us Anti-Semitic.

I'm so sick of that word, Anti-Semite, like honestly its such a useless word I gladly wear the word Anti-semite as a medallion of honor. I'm a proud Anti-Semite at this point since the word has lost all meaning and now means anyone who tells Israel its not OK to violate basic human rights. A member on this very forum literally a month ago called me Anti-Semite and Hitleresque (both words used verbatim) just for stating that Israel violates Palestinian human rights. No joke and you can check it out for yourself on the PPR section of this forum under the thread about police brutality.

From now if someone says im anti-semitic or full of hate towards Jews or preach hate ill take it as a compliment, since those phrases are only used against Palestinians to tell us that we must accept suffering and deny our existence.

Being an anti-Semite is more than not liking Israel. I can understand you not liking Israel....but I can’t understand why you would hate all Jews because of what Israel does to the Palestinians.

Not all Jews believe in what Israel is doing to the Palestinians.

Before anyone comments anything else let me clarify a misunderstanding. Of course I dont hate Jews. Not all. Not most. Not even 30%. However that doesnt mean I dont proudly wear the Anti-Semitic label because I dont get called Anti-Semitic for hating Jews, I get called that for affirming Palestinian lives. Notice how I capitalized the word Anti-Semite to refer to its politicization used as a bludgeon to smear criticism of Israel, rather than the general definition of the word which is hating Semites. I would never hate or harbor anger towards Jews because of what Israel is doing. Ive attended many protests for Palestine in which many Jews attended and many of the biggest allies for the Palestine cause are Jews, such as organizations like B'Tsalem, Jewish Voices for Peace, Neuterai Karta, Breaking the Silence, and many other Jewish organizations that have stalwartly been for Palestinian human rights more than even most Muslim organizations ever were.

You might not wish this.....but I believe a two-state solution to be the best solution.

My mother and I had a discussion about the Mideast situation in general. She agrees the Palestinians got screwed....and she’s Jewish and pro-Israel.

In case anyone is still confused let me provide an example. When Hillary Clinton went live and called Trump supporters a basket of deplorables many Trump supporters proudly wore the title "deplorable" as a way to mock Hillary ironically. No Trump supporter seriously likes being called deplorable or even thinks themselves deplorable; rather they refer to themselves as deplorable to mock its usage against them as a way to showcase its irony.

I know what you mean.

My not exactly impartial opinion is that Facebook bans people mostly because Facebook CAN ban people.

As upsetting as it is, I wouldn't read a whole lot in to it.

And speaking of reading things and FB bans, this isn't the same as your situation but even so it might shed some light on the general imperfection of Farcebook's ban system,
https://fortune.com/2020/11/28/facebook ... iness-ads/

Note one FB absurdity here,

I mean I don't even get on my facebook anymore, lol last time I did a couple months ago it was just for a few minutes so I could post what I think of Tucker Carlson, or Tuckkker Carlson as I called him in that post idk maybe that got banned to. But other then that have not really spent any time on facebook.

But pretty sure I got posts banned before in regards to talking about Israel being wrong in what they are doing towards palestines, so I don't think that is anything new.

I feel like not using Facebook has always been a good decision.

Probably millions of other people posted the same video with hateful remarks and it trigged an avalanche of hateful discussions. Facebook AI was overwhelmed with reports and gone berserk wiping out posts containing this video in any context.

Not meaning to minimize your distress, salad; but maybe posts on this theme should go in PPR (Politics, Philosophy and Religion) rather than the Haven. Because it feels like the issue is getting too heated for this forum.