Facebook deletes anti-Semitic slurs

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SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) -- Facebook removed anti-Semitic slurs after protests from an Australian Jewish leader.

Comments such as \"Jew rats\" and \"F****** Mercedes Jews\" were removed from the social networking site after Vic Alhadeff, the CEO of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, had lodged a complaint.

Students from some of Sydney\'s elite private schools had posted the
messages, which included \"support Holocaust denial\" and a link to
another internet site called \"F*** Israel and their Holocaust bull****.\"

One student said in Tuesday\'s Sydney Morning Herald that there was \"no intention of causing conflict or racial hatred.\" But Alhadeff told the
newspaper that \"Any comments which propose a racial stereotype are
offensive.\"