Jewish Internet Defense Force

Jewish Internet Defense Force
AbbreviationJIDF
PurposeOnline activism, Israel advocacy
Websitethejidf.org (Archived February 2014, now dead)

The Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF) was an organization ran social media campaigns from 2000 to 2014 against websites and Facebook groups that it described as Islamic terrorism or antisemitism. The group's website, whose former domain now links to a gambling site, described the JIDF as a "private, independent, non-violent protest organization representing a collective of activists".[1] The JIDF was termed "hacktivism" by the BBC and Haaretz.[2] The JIDF web site was live in February 2014 with little activity, and is no longer available.

  1. ^ "About the JIDF". JIDF. October 2008. Archived from the original on 13 January 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "Gaza crisis spills onto the web". BBC News. 14 January 2009.