Have been checking out the efforts of the JIDF to squash the “Kill A Jew” day events that have been popping up on Facebook.

There was one a few days ago that the organization was successful in getting taken down.  Another one popped up two days later to take its place. It looks like it’s the same people trying to get a rise but the general bottom line is the same.  In addition to all the great content and information on Facebook, there is a lot of antisemitism and hate speech against  ethnic, religious and gender orientation minorities.  Facebook does what it can to keep it in check when made aware of the problem within the inherent flaws of  user-based self-reporting systems.  There however, is simply so much more of the hatred than there are employees at Facebook to monitor it.

I try to take most of this crap in stride as there are idiots everywhere.  The most troubling aspect of “the day” is not that some anti-Semitic idiot would put it up but that so many are willing to play along and incite the hatred in the page commentary.  Strong evidence that it is much more than a silly page put up by a moron. It is a stark reminder that Facebook is not just a place for friends to connect and share information.  It is a venue for those of like mind in hatred of not only Jews but any minority group to take that message, find those who agree and take hatred viral.

I wonder if they will talk about that in the new Facebook movie, The Social Network. I doubt it.  People are more interested In Mark Zuckerberg’s quirks and dalliances than they are about real issues affecting all of us in that network.  That’s to be expected.  People want to be entertained.  I hope it’s more entertaining than Kill A Jew Day.

It is one thing for Helen Thomas, an almost 90 year old White House correspondent to have extreme politics but it seems to be time for her to call it a career and retire to an old age home for anti-Semitic  morons.

While perusing a site called the Jewish Internet Defense Force, I came across of video of Ms. Thomas  expressing  her views on the the Palestinian conflict.  I don’t agree with them but this is America and she is entitled to her opinion.  I was however stunned when to make her point, she suggested that Jews in that territory go back to Poland and Germany.  Even someone of as  advanced age as Helen should  realize the Holocaust imagery of such a statement.  She is in fact, old enough to have actual recollection of the events unless she is also going the route of being a Holocaust Denier in addition to her other anti-Semitic viewpoints. In case Helen is not aware, about 3 million Jews were murdered in Poland alone.

Her statement is so bizarre and outrageous that one could conclude that  Helen Thomas is either ignorant, anti-Semitic and/or senile.   Either way its time for her to retire and be denied access to the White House.  She could use her free time for a trip to Auschwitz in Poland so she can get a refresher on what happened to the Jews in Poland and Germany.  Not that she cares.  If anyone needs to go home, its Helen Thomas, or to a home, and stay there…

I sat down with former New York Post Reporter and Twitter activist, Melissa Jane Kronfeld. We discussed her recent Twitter campaign to raise public awareness as to the plight of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.   Shalit was abducted on 25 June 2006 by Palestinian militants in a cross border raid and has been held been held in captivity by Hamas since then.  In early October 2009 a video of Gilad Shalit was  released by Hamas proving he was alive as of Sept 14, 2009.