Facebook took the cartoon down shortly after it was posted, saying it violated its standards on hate speech. Hall said his intent was to draw an analogy between how Mr. Netanyahu: “Hey Bibi, did you forget something?” Hall drew a cartoon showing a sign affixed to barbed wire that read, in German, “Jews are not welcome here.” He added a line of text addressing Mr. When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in 2019 that he would bar two congresswomen - critics of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians - from visiting the country, Mr. Later in the piece, the author turned to what he cast as another example of Facebook screwing things up: Or as the story's headline and subhead put it, "For Political Cartoonists, the Irony Was That Facebook Didn’t Recognize Irony As Facebook has become more active at moderating political speech, it has had trouble dealing with satire."Īs an example, the piece points to a cartoon mocking violent inclinations of the far-right "Proud Boys," which Facebook removed from its site because it wrongly interpreted the cartoon as "advocating violence.” Isaac's March 19 piece in the paper's Technology section speaks of how Facebook's algorithms, and even its human moderators, sometimes fail to recognize satire and so wrongly flag as hate-speech political cartoons that are in fact meant to mock and highlight hate-speech. It seems that Mike Isaac, a tech writer for the the New York Times, would prefer his readers think of the phenomenon as innocent commentary-certainly not something that a social-media site should regard as hateful speech. In Lipstadt's words, Holocaust inversion is "a false comparison which elevates by a factor of a zillion any wrongdoings Israel might have done, and lessens by a factor of a zillion what the Germans did."
The historian Deborah Lipstadt described Holocaust inversion - the act of described Jews in Israel as the new Nazis - as a form of "soft-core denial." This style of Holocaust denial is part of an equation that, when looked at from one direction, amounts to hateful anti-Israelism, and from the other, as no less than historical revisionism about the Nazis.
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