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Facebook provided no option for me to appeal their decision. If you tell me my post does violate community standards, I will accept the decision without further fuss.

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I love how FB claims to remove only those items that threaten the community’s basic rights to respect and safety. (Read the following with the proper tone of sarcasm:) I must say that I appreciate their efforts and feel we Jews are totally respected and safe (from vile hate and accusations) on their platform. Early this morning, I posted the video recently released by the IDF -- a video of then 8-year-old Ela Elyakim, who was taken hostage by Hamas on Oct 7^th. If I remember correctly, this is the approximate text that I wrote above the video:

The family wanted this video shared so everyone would know Hamas' cruelty and viciousness. Ela Elyakim, 8 years old when captured, had this to say about her video: she was made to change her clothes and forced to repeatedly recite the script they gave her. The script says: I am Ela Elyakim, Noam's daughter [her father was murdered in the very house from which she and her sistern were abducted], 8 years old, and I ask Bibi to release us and I am a hostage of Hamas.

[video width="640" height="362" mp4="https://www.israeldiaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ela-elyakim-video.mp4"][/video] Within moments, I received this message:

Clicking on the "See rule" arrow, I got this:

Not content to settle for this, I looked for a way to appeal the decision -- note that there was no "appeal" button on their removal post, unlike something else I did successfully appeal. I wrote this up on their "Report a problem" box in their Help and Support section of my Facebook account. This is what I wrote:

You removed a video claiming it goes against community standards. It fits NONE of the categories in your list of violations of community standards. It is a video that remains up in a number of other FB posts and pages (and rightly so). I don't know who you think this post is supporting -- certainly NOT Hamas. It is supporting an 8-year-old little girl who was abducted on Oct 7th. Her family wants her video shared so people know what she was up against. So please tell me: in praise of what person or organization considered dangerous is this post?

Perhaps my English could have been better worded, I admit. Not great style for one who considers herself a writer (and sometimes editor), but it does not matter a bit. When I tried to submit this report-a-problem, it failed. I tried different variations, from sending the screen shots they required, to sending only one screen shot. Each attempt to submit failed. Don't worry: I did submit the problem with report-a-problem not submitting. Don't remember where right now because I was so frustrated with them, I closed the screen down as soon as it went through. Do I expect a response, you ask? Nope. I did repost the same video from the IDF Facebook page and it is still up. Go figure! The only reason I care is because I don't want to accumulate too many strikes against me because I have no desire to be in FB jail for any length of time at all. So far, I have been able to avoid it.

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