Google acts on their ToS?

Google actually acting on their Terms of Service? It’s true! From the AJN:

Google gag for anti-Israel site
PETER KOHN

AN Australian-based anti-Zionist and Holocaust-revisionist website has had its advertising privileges restricted by major internet companies.

According to the Jerusalem Post, the ZioPedia site, on which a man who accosted Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in a US hotel gloated about the encounter, has been barred from using Google’s AdSense, as well as donation accounts at PayPal and StormPay for the past few months.


Google Australia’s head of corporate communications, Rob Shilkin, told the AJN that in late May, ZioPedia was removed from Google’s AdSense service, which places Ads By Google on websites in a revenue-sharing exercise.

“We terminated their AdSense account because we don’t let in publishers of racially-intolerant material,” Shilkin said.

B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission executive officer Manny Waks praised the move by Google and other companies.

“We commend Google for taking strong measures against the ZioPedia website. While as a western democracy we must uphold our core values, including freedom of speech, there are instances when the protection of all members of our community takes precedence.

“It makes no difference if it’s protection from physical assault or vilification,” he said.

On its website, ZioPedia described the moves by Google, PayPal and StormPay as “obscene political pressure by the Zionist mafia”.

Founded in May 2006 by the Sydney-based Rebel Media Group, ZioPedia is an online encyclopaedia and a collection of blogs discrediting the Holocaust and attacking Jews.

The writers, who are mostly Jewish [not the last time we looked, but okay], say Jews exploit the Holocaust and antisemitism to control western media and public opinion.

“The goal of ZioPedia is the dismantling of the Jews-only state and its replacement by a free, united, secular, democratic, egalitarian Palestine,” its editor and publisher, Andrew Winkler, said.

“As far as the Zionist settlers are concerned, we agree with the Iranian president, [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad, that it should be left to the Palestinians to decide whether to allow them to stay.”

In February, Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper reported that Wiesel’s attacker, who assaulted him in the lift of a San Francisco hotel, posted details of the incident on ZioPedia.

News brief · 20 June 2007