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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 642

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Former hostage Edan Alexander, left, in a photo uploaded by him a day after his release from captivity in Gaza, May 13, 2025. (Insragram/@edan_alexander1)
May 13, 2025, 8:36 pm
‘Home sweet home’: Edan Alexander publishes first social media post since release
Last living hostage with US citizenship posts selfie enjoying beer after 584 days in Hamas captivity
By ToI Staff
Abraham Hamra faces off with a pro-Palestinian protester in New York City. (Courtesy)
March 17, 2025, 3:39 am
Bucking stereotypes and fighting hatred, a Syrian Jewish ex-refugee lights up Instagram
An immigration lawyer by day, New Yorker Abraham Hamra has gained over 59,000 followers using his fluent Hebrew and Arabic to bridge gaps with adversaries and counter misinformation
By Cathryn J. Prince
Social media influencer and motivational speaker Chris Caresnone, also known as the Babka King. (Courtesy)
January 24, 2025, 3:59 am
The ‘Babka King’ is bridging cultural gaps on Instagram — one blintz at a time
Chris Caresnone has grown a social media following of over half a million posting about foods from different cultures — and has been welcomed into the Jewish community
By Cathryn J. Prince
People visit the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, on February 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
January 13, 2025, 5:00 am
80 Auschwitz survivors film life lessons to mark 80 years since liberation
Created by The Claims Conference, new series of video testimonies from Auschwitz survivors aims to help young people ‘listen to their voices and carry their stories forward’
By Matt Lebovic
US President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, January 10, 2025. (AP Photo/ Ben Curtis)
January 11, 2025, 11:31 am
Biden slams ‘really shameful’ Meta plan to scrap US Facebook, Instagram fact-checking
President says move ‘completely contrary to everything America’s about’; UN rights chief: Allowing hate speech to flourish online has ‘real-world consequences’
By Anuj Chopra
Anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate outside Columbia University, September 3, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
December 10, 2024, 6:45 am
Columbia’s anti-Israel student alliance booted from Instagram
Columbia University Apartheid Divest removed from social media platform after post calling Barnard College trustees ‘enemies,’ ‘murderers,’ and ‘violently genocidal Zionists’
By Luke Tress and New York Jewish Week via JTA
Food blogger Ruhama Shitrit in her Newton, Massachusetts, home (Credit Heidi Aaronson)
November 19, 2024, 3:13 am
Instagram star Ruhama Shitrit brings flavors of Israel to her US home
The recipe developer didn’t expect to raise her kids in America, but after 18 years, cooking is how she infuses them with their heritage
By Jessica Steinberg
Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert and Dov Forman, authors of 'Lily's Promise.' (Courtesy)
October 9, 2024, 6:22 pm
Lily Ebert, Holocaust survivor who reached millions on social media, dies at 100
A native of Hungary, Ebert survived Auschwitz and built a family — first in the new State of Israel, then in the UK — and in recent years became a social media superstar
By Gila Kalman and ToI Staff
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students at Columbia University on October 12, 2023 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
August 29, 2024, 8:01 am
Two anti-Israel groups at NYU, Columbia say Instagram removed their accounts
Columbia’s Students for Justice in Palestine and NYU’s People’s Solidarity Coalition likely violated Meta’s new rules, which ban use of word ‘Zionist’ to promote antisemitism
By Luke Tress
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at a human rights-themed event hosted by his Islamist AKP political party in the Turkish capital of Ankara, August 5, 2024. (Screen capture: X/Türkiye Canlı, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 5, 2024, 8:35 pm
Erdogan slams ‘digital fascism’ as Turkey said to ban Instagram over Haniyeh posts
Turkish president accuses social media of censoring ‘Palestinian martyrs’; Ankara holding talks with Meta-owned company as e-commerce losing millions daily since Aug. 2 shutdown
By Agencies and ToI Staff
This picture taken in Istanbul on August 2, 2024, shows the logo of the social network Instagram on a smartphone with the Turkish flag in the background. (Yasin Akgul/AFP)
August 2, 2024, 1:32 pm
Turkey blocks Instagram after removal of Haniyeh condolence posts from platform
Ban comes days after Erdogan aide criticized social network for excising posts in praise of Hamas leader killed in Tehran early Wednesday
By Agencies and ToI Staff
People talk near a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, March 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
July 10, 2024, 5:44 am
Meta says it will remove a wider swath of hate speech posts targeting ‘Zionists’
Under new policy, social media giant to take down Facebook and Instagram posts in which term is used as cover to push ‘antisemitic stereotypes, or threaten other types of harm’
By JTA and Jacob Magid
People talk near a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, March 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
July 2, 2024, 10:26 pm
Meta to end ‘overbroad’ ban on Arabic word ‘shaheed’ on Facebook, Instagram
Oversight board finds prohibition on the term for ‘martyr,’ sometimes used to honor terrorists, has failed to account for a broad range of meanings
By Reuters
An Instagram story posted by Yair Netanyahu, showing an image of National Unity chair Benny Gantz captioned, 'King of the conception,' shared June 15, 2024. (Instagram screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 15, 2024, 7:48 pm
Yair Netanyahu shares post casting top security chiefs as ‘fatal failures’
PM’s son posts video to Instagram blaming Gantz for appointing security heads who were in charge on October 7, which premier has repeatedly refused to take responsibility for
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators gather during a protest decrying sexual violence against women in the October 7 massacre, outside of United Nations headquarters in New York City, on December 4, 2023. (Yakov Binyamin/Flash90)
June 2, 2024, 4:35 pm
Online watchdog prods platforms to tackle posts denying sexual assault on Oct. 7
Antisemitism monitor CyberWell says social media moderators are not doing enough to remove content that casts doubt on credible accounts of rape and other Hamas atrocities
By Sharon Wrobel
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