Holocaust Denying Fans Flock to Facebook

Abbas Hodroj says he has the right to express his opinions on Facebook. So when the 25-year-old student from Portland, Ore. heard that the social networking site was under pressure to ban Holocaust denial groups, he decided to join one.

Now, he’s one of 39 Facebook users listed as members of the group “Holocaust: A Series of Lies,” a community for those who, like Hodroj, do not believe that the genocide of about 6 million Jews during World War II ever took place.

“I’ve read many articles and different sources that say that did not happen. These historians, they go back in history and document World War II and said it didn’t happen,” said Hodroj, who was born in Beirut, Lebanon and has lived in the U.S. for 10 years. “The people that they said they survived were in hiding. …They could be all fabricating [it].” – from ABCNews

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a Jewish former Harvard University student. “We abhor Nazi ideals and find Holocaust denial repulsive and ignorant,” a spokesman said over the weekend. “Just being offensive or objectionable doesn’t get it taken off Facebook. However, we believe people have a right to discuss these ideas, and we want Facebook to be a place where ideas, even controversial ideas, can be discussed.” – from Haaretz

The Holocaust Denial movement is nothing more than a pretext to allow the preaching of hatred against Jews and to recruit other like minded individuals to do the same. Allowing these groups to flourish on Facebook under the guise of “open discussion” does nothing more than help spread their message of hate. Is this the kind of open discussion that Facebook wants to encourage? Is this really where you want to draw your line? – from Brian Cuban

This isn’t a slippery slope, Facebook. It’s evil. Pure evil. Don’t plant a flag on the wrong side of the line. Stand firm against racial and religious hatred, even if you don’t have to. You’ll look back in fifty years and be proud that you did. Because no matter what your terms of service say, this isn’t porn. It’s the Holocaust. And it happened. – from Techcrunch