Netanyahu gets Facebook ‘hate speech’ suspension

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party was found yesterday to have violated Facebook’s hate-speech policy after a post from his account saying Arabs “want to destroy us all”. Israeli media reported that the post which said Israeli Arabs “want to destroy us all -- women, children and men” appeared on Netanyahu’s official Facebook page and was subsequently removed by Likud. A Facebook statement said the account has been suspended for 24 hours. Netanyahu, who is fighting an election battle for his political survival, said the message had nothing to do with him. “It wasn’t me. It was one of the workers at our election headquarters,” he told Israeli public radio.  “Think logically: Do you think I would really write such a thing?”