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SAN FRANCISCO The online social networking site Facebook has become a focus for the Israel-Palestine debate, spurred in part by a decision by the site in 2006 to remove Palestine from the list of countries users could choose when registering for the site, reports The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California. That inspired a flurry of messages including one from Ronald Habash, a member of the Palestine network at the University of Illinois. I find it extremely offensive that Facebook does not acknowledge Palestine as a nation. Clearly, such acts are deemed anti-Palestinian, wrote Habash in an online petition. Many other Facebook members viewed the removal of Palestine as a violation of Facebooks own policy against content that is defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory
hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. Facebook reinstated Palestine in early 2007 to its list of countries.
Facebook Emerges as Venue for Israel-Palestine Debate - NAM
Facebook Emerges as Venue for Israel-Palestine Debate - NAM