hate speech

Dear Facebook,

Yesterday I got a friend request from Mr XY who I do not know in person. We have one common friend with Mr X but I don’t know who is he or how he looks like, also because he has no photo about himself on his profile. His profile picture is a Hungarian flag and the following is written on it: I am Hungarian. Not Gipsy. Not Jewish. In my opinion this profile picture is already hate speech as it suggests that if somebody is Gipsy or Jewish they cannot be Hungarian in the same time.

Mr X writes about himself: „zsidóvadász”. Means „jewhunter”. Tell me that it is not something that is suitable to make fear in Jewish people. The same question about being a „soldier” at a Waffen SS Division or being part of the „Hungarian Antisemitic Union”. Or sharing posts of a page „Dolfi és a haverok”, means „Dolfi and the friends” that is an obvious reference to Adolf Hitler.

Watching the pictures posted by Mr X you can see clearly antisemitic, racist, nazi photos. As far as I know these are not allowed to post publicly.

As I can see I am not the only one who he sent friend request as a stranger. Under one of his recent posts I can see a question of Mr AB that „from where we know each other?”.  I can see that the number of his friends is growing since this morning.

I am not going to verify his friend request as we are not friends. Also I can see one of his posts that says a „30 days long blocking is over again”. Meaning that I am not the first one who is complaining about him.

I don’t care about nationalist profiles or Hungarian fans. I love Hungary as well. But posts and behaving like his makes me be afraid in my own country and in my hometown. I would not care about his page if he would not send me a friend request.

In this moment I live in Israel, I have many friends and connections in the Hungarian Jewish community, and I write a blog about living in Israel. Do you think that he sent me a friend request because he sincerely wants to be my best friend or because he wants to threaten me? I am afraid the latter is true. Also I can see that he is following me. Do you think he as a neo-nazi is following me because he truly likes my posts?

You can tell me to change my privacy settings. But changing privacy settings means that I need to hide myself because I have a different opinion (aka I love Israel) than him and some other people. I do not want to hide myself. It is not me who calling for violence and using hate speech. Hate speech and violence should be stopped, not peaceful people to make hide themselves.

Dear Facebook, please stop him threatening Hungarian people, stop him posting calling for violence.

I am waiting for your answer.

Yours,

Anna