JIDF’s measures include reporting Wikipedia editors it claims are anti-Israel, and taking action against entries seen as including one-sided or false accounts of the history of Israel and the Mideast conflict. On Google Earth, it has taken steps to remove photos showing Palestinian villages listed as having been destroyed during the foundation of the State of Israel. It has also waged a campaign against the listing of Palestine as a country.
The online confrontation was first reported at the very outset of the second Palestinian intifada in September 2000, when Israeli and Palestinian hackers began targeting each others’ Web sites. Using an ever-evolving arsenal of e-weaponry, including spam, hacktivists paralyzed the servers of targeted sites and overloaded capacity. Stricken sites slowed to a crawl or crashed altogether. Read more here.
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