Facebook: 'Third Intifada' page spiked over 'violence'

JERUSALEM - Facebook shut down a page calling for a "Third Intifada" against Israel after a surge in comments calling for violence, the company said in a letter sent to an Israeli minister on Thursday.

The "Third Intifada" page, which had almost 500,000 fans, was closed on Tuesday, just days after Public Diplomacy Minister Yuli Edelstein sent a letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to shut it down over its "wild incitement."

The social networking site said that in general it was loath to take down pages that expressed criticism, believing in free speech.

But "when they degrade to direct calls for violence or expressions of hate -- as occurred in this case -- we have and will continue to take them down."

The page, created on March 6, called for a third intifada, or uprising against the Israeli occupation, to begin on May 15 -- the date marked by Israel as its official independence anniversary but marked by Palestinians as the "Naqba" -- or catastrophe.

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