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Thu Feb 21, 2019, 04:46 AM Feb 2019

(Jewish Group) French TV stops FB stream from Jewish cemetery after antisemitic comments

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

A French TV channel said on Wednesday it had been forced to cut short a live Facebook broadcast from a desecrated Jewish cemetery in eastern France because of an onslaught of antisemitic commentary.

France 3 said it went live from the cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim on Tuesday as President Emmanuel Macron was visiting to pay his respects after more than 90 graves were vandalized with swastikas and antisemitic abuse.

But as it broadcast footage online to its more than 1.3 million Facebook followers, the feed was inundated with antisemitic commentary and abuse.

"We are talking about explicit death threats, comments that were openly antisemitic and racist, including 'Heil Hitler,' 'dirty Jew' or 'dirty Jews,' comments that were addressed at Emmanuel Macron and representatives of the Jewish community," the channel said in a statement explaining its decision.

"Within minutes, the number of vile and illegal comments had gone well beyond our capacity to moderate them," it explained, adding that it would have taken 10 or 20 staff to handle the onslaught. "We refuse to traffic in hatred."

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I am sure they were just "misunderstood" and all those comments were simply "anti-Zionism" and "legitimate criticism" of Israel.
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