By COLlive reporter
An outspoken Israeli rap artist who came to the defense of a Lubavitcher attacked for his outreach efforts says he was censored by Facebook.
Yoav Eliasi, commonly known by his stage name The Shadow, told fans that he was outraged by a video that criticized a young chossid helping Jews put on Tefillin in a supermarket.
In the video, the person follows a Lubavitcher engaging with customers of Supersal and confronts the management of the supermarket about why they allow “missionary activities” to be held on their premises.
Eliasi wrote on Facebook on Monday, February 2 that he was outraged by the “leftist trash who makes a commotion in the supermarket because of a guy who puts on Tefillin.”
“I am a secular Tel Aviv resident and cannot begin to understand where this self-hatred comes from?” He said, and mentioned the suffering the Jewish people went through to keep their faith and heritage.
“We were expelled from Spain, lived in fear in the Arab countries,” he wrote. “They married off my grandmother at the age of 9 so that a Muslim would not marry her. We escaped from the hatred and anti-Semitism around the world so that leftists… will allow themselves to behave like that.”
His post garnered well over 5,000 likes, shares and comments. But in a post on Wednesday, February 4, Eliasi accused Facebook of censoring him because of his previous remarks.
“Facebook punished me and lowered the reach of my page,” he wrote. “I think it is my right to publish a status about a person who publicized (his opinion) in public and wants to hurt the freedom of religion in Israel.”
“I didn’t call to hurt the person, just was shocked by his behavior – and it is my absolute right,” he added. The rapper added that Facebook shuts down pages connected to right-wing views but leaves “all the anti Israeli Arab pages (including ISIS) active.”
im sorry to burst your bubble, but most chabad jews, forget about all jews, will not quit facebook
Amazing job Chabad rocks
Why do of you care what Zuckerberg does in his private life?
I think is some insecure issues you guys have to deal with.
Let’s glorify it so that everyone marries non Jews and makes money… NOT!!!
What happened to any standards of Yiddishkeit yes we love every yid for what he is but glorifying the fact that he married a non Jew?! Seriously?! I only hope that the comment the way it sounds is not what you were implying…
Hey, I also went off of FB 2 days ago, but it’s just b/c there are better things to do, such as learning Torah. If all the ladies (and men) did that instead of FB, it’d create a fire that would silence that ridiculous Tel Avivian.
If all the Jews in the world stopped using facebook, the arrogant billionaire self hating Jew woukd not feel it
But if a significant number of Jews dumped all their fb stock, believe me, you’ll his attention.
Thank you Norma, I’m sure your departure from Facebook will be noticed by the other 999,999,999 members…
I am going off facebook and I hope every Jew who is proud to be Jewish and the self-hating Jews might do well to learn this lesson. and Mr. Zuckerberg with all his money sees fit to marry out, so what can you expect.. Norma Eiberson Hillman
And the owner of Facebook is married to a Chinese goy so… you should be proud of him even though the owner is secular and ignorant about Judaism. At least he has made lots of money :-p If the owner of Facebook were asked what is more important, money or Judaism, guess what he would say.
The point is it DIDN’T annoy the management or the shoppers. Only that one antisemite.
Why not movtzoyim right outside, rather than in the aisles where it annoys the management and the shoppers? C’mon. B’ofen haniskabel, people.
Shame on Facebook!!!!
If Jews around the world would unite and go off facebook, facebook would very quickly learn to supposedly “love” Israel!!! so it’s really up to us Jews to stand up for each other and not let ANYONE get away with ANTI SEMITISM because that’s really what it is.
Moshiach now!!!
so so sad
Is so anti-Israel