Twitter Slaps Farrakhan on the Wrist; Still Tolerates Anti-Semitism

Twitter briefly locked Louis Farrakhan out of his Twitter account for his infamous 2018 tweet in which he described Jews as termites. Twitter finally decided this language was dehumanizing to Jews after all.


However, his account was restored hours later. Although the termite tweet has been removed many anti-Semitic tweets remain intact. Which means Twitter tolerates anti-Semitism.


Here is one example I found from this past March:


Hollywood’s Casting Couch: 'The wicked practices that govern their industries are largely justified and influenced by such Talmudic principles.'


The Talmud is, of course, the primary source of Jewish civil and religious law. The notion that the Talmud sanctions rape and sexual assault is defamatory and is intended to incite fear and dehumanize Jews, a violation of Twitter policy.


So naturally I reported it. But I'm not holding my breath.


If Farrakhan were a white supremacist he would have been gone long ago. But Twitter is more afraid of being called racist than anti-Semitic. So it looks the other way. Oh, they'll say anti-Semitism is a bad thing and might take action against such behaviors from time to time only to quietly let the offending party back into the fold as if nothing had happened.


Whether its Farrakhan, Ilhan Omar, Jeremy Corbyn and those who make excuses of them all of it represent drips which erode the wall against anti-Semitism. Tolerance of anti-Semitism invariably leads to violence and tolerance of said violence against Jews in turn leads to state sanctioned pogroms.


Anti-Semitism is the world's oldest hatred. But social media can make it spread more swiftly than ever. This spread is legitimized when Twitter fails to act with equal swiftness. The failure to act against anti-Semitism is to tolerate and eventually accept it as part of the social fabric of polite society.