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'''Jew Watch''' is a website that claims to "report accurate information regarding [[Jew|Jewish]] ownership and control over mass [[media]] and [[politics]]," and which describes its objective as "Keeping a Close Watch on Jewish Communities & Organizations Worldwide." The website asserts that "Jew Watch is a Not-For-Profit Library for private study, scholarship, or research." Although the maintainers of the site insist that it is not a hate site, it is, in fact, an [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]]<ref>{{cite web|title=CNET: Google caught in Anti-Semitism flap|url=http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5186012.html|accessdate=2006-04-09}}</ref> website of the purest style. It has received much criticism from a wide range of organizations and individuals.

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* "Racists of all beliefs can find materials to their liking on the Internet. ... One such site, Jew Watch, contains articles and other writings on anti Semitic themes, with such titles as "World War Two Slave Labor Issues and Greedy Jewish Lawyers" and "The Rothschild Internationalist Zionist Banking One World Order Family"." [http://www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/AllSymbols/FA869F4E19CCCBC1C1256A570031F062/$File/G0113724.doc?OpenElement Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the use of the Internet for purposes of incitement to racial hatred, racist propaganda and xenophobia, and on ways of promoting international cooperation in this area.] World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. Preparatory Committee Second session. Geneva, 21 May-1 June 2001. Item 6 of the provisional agenda. Review of Reports, Studies and Other Documentation for the Preparatory Committee and the World Conference. United Nations General Assembly. A/CONF.189/PC.2/12. 27 April 2001

* "He runs Jew Watch, a wildly anti-Semitic, 6-year-old Web site that carries archives of conspiracy theories about Jews." [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=500 Radical Radio: Neo-Nazi broadcasting from St. Louis AM station] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813024758/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2004/fall/radical-radio |date=2012-08-13 }}, [[Southern Poverty Law Center]], Fall 2004. Retrieved May 21, 2007.

* {{cite news | title = Google caught in Anti-Semitism flap | work = [[CNET]] | first = David | last = Becker | date = 2004-04-07 | url = http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038_3-5186012.html | access-date = 2006-04-09 }}

* {{cite news | title = Google In Controversy Over Top-Ranking For Anti-Jewish Site | url = http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3345071 | work = [[Search Engine Watch]] | date = 2004-04-25 | first = Danny | last = Sullivan | access-date = 2006-08-08 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061017004331/http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3345071 | archive-date = 2006-10-17 }}

* "In fact, the No. 1 result for the search entry "Jew" turns out to be www.jewwatch.com. The fanatically anti-Semitic hate site is ranked first in relevance of more than 1.72 million Web pages ..." Joe Eskenazi. [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/21783/edition_id/442/format/html/displaystory.html No. 1 Google result for ‘Jew’ is fanatical hate site – for now], ''[[J. The Jewish News of Northern California]]'', March 19, 2004.

* "As previously reported, the anti-Semitic site Jew Watch used to be the first item returned from a Google search on the word "Jew," a result that attracted widespread criticism and several online protest campaigns." David Becker. [http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038_3-5200203.html Anti-Semitic site drops off Google], ''[[CNET]]'', April 26, 2004. Retrieved May 21, 2007.

* "Money donated through multiple Web sites registered to Frank Weltner of St. Louis was redirected to a site that collected money for an anti-Semitic and racist organization, Nixon said ... Nixon said Weltner registered at least 10 Internet ___domain names with Katrina-related themes, such as donatekatrina.com and katrinafamilies.com. The Web sites showed photos of neighborhoods in rubble and families in peril, along with a pitch to donate. Those who clicked on a link to donate were redirected to a central Web site, InternetDonations.org., the same collection point for individuals pledging donations to JewWatch.com." [http://www.ago.mo.gov/newsreleases/2006/102606b.htm Nixon obtains permanent injuntion against Jewwatch.com operator who deceptively solicited Katrina donations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722030733/http://ago.mo.gov/newsreleases/2006/102606b.htm |date=2012-07-22 }}, Attorney-General [[Jay Nixon]] press release, October 26, 2006. Retrieved May 21, 2007.

* "Jew Watch organizes its anti-Semitic materials much in the same way a popular Web directory might group more benign information." [http://www.adl.org/poisoning_web/black.asp Poisoning the Web: Hatred Online – Don Black: White Pride World Wide] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225195221/http://www.adl.org/poisoning_web/black.asp |date=2008-12-25 }}, [[Anti-Defamation League]]. Retrieved May 21, 2007.

* "Google's review comes a couple weeks after the Anti-Defamation League and online petitioners expressed concern over an anti-Semitic Web site, Jew Watch, showing up among the top results for the search term 'Jew.'" Verne Kopytoff. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/23/BUG3A69NID1.DTL Google revisits policy on hate sites], ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', April 23, 2004.

* "A New York real estate developer has launched an online petition to get an anti-Semitic site removed from Google's index after it came up as the first result when he did a search for the word 'Jew'." [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/07/1081222513793.html Online petition launched against anti-Semitic site], ''[[The Age]]'', April 7, 2004.

* "So it's ironic that an anti-Semitic website, Jewwatch.com, would find a host in Boca Raton. But it did." [http://www.bocanews.com/index.php?src=news&prid=13745&category=Main%20Headline Hate Speech: Boca anti-Semitic website host tells site owner to “take his business elsewhere.”] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929082246/http://www.bocanews.com/index.php?src=news&prid=13745&category=Main%20Headline |date=2011-09-29 }}, ''[[Boca Raton News]]'', January 5, 2006.

* "Although not mentioned in the Audit, two specific antisemitic web sites came to the attention of the Canadian Jewish community. Jew Watch, a vehemently antisemitic web site, was being listed by an Internet search engine under the 'Jewish Resources' section." [http://www.bnaibrith.ca/publications/audit1998/audit1998-08.html 1998 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210225250/http://www.bnaibrith.ca/publications/audit1998/audit1998-08.html |date=2012-02-10 }}, [[B'nai Brith Canada]]. Retrieved May 21, 2007.

* "In March, during a casual Web search, the 26-year-old real-estate investor accidentally found that Jew Watch, an anti-Semitic site, was the top Google result." John Brandon. [https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/05/63380 Dropping the Bomb on Google], ''[[Wired News]]'', May 11, 2004. Retrieved May 21, 2007.

* "... even when they appear on the internet, the antisemitic extremes of Jew-watch.com and the ethnic boosterism of Jewhoo.com seem relics of an archaic time." Vincent Brook. ''You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture'', Rutgers University Press, 2006, {{ISBN|0-8135-3845-9}}, p. 232.

* "... Jew Watch (a hate site allegedly reporting Jewish monopoly, banking, and media control worldwide)." Eli M. Salzberger, Niva Elkin-Koren: ''Law, Economics and Cyberspace. The Effects of Cyberspace on the Economic Analysis of Law.'' Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004. {{ISBN|1-84064-669-1}}. p. 72

* "... an anti-Semitic website named 'Jew Watch.'" [http://www.hateontheinternet.com/PDF/GlobeArticleSept13.pdf Experts Warn of Rapid Growth in On-Line Hate] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019143040/http://www.hateontheinternet.com/PDF/GlobeArticleSept13.pdf |date=2007-10-19 }} by Kirk Makin. ''Globe and Mail'', September 13, 2006

* "Racist skinheads connect and reconnect online through a multitude of websites like Stormfront and Jew Watch, which are deep reservoirs of hate ..." Barry Howard Minkin: ''Ten Great Lies That Threaten Western Civilization'' Ten Great Lies, 2007. {{ISBN|0-9792904-0-6}}. p. 140.</ref>

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'''Jew Watch''' was an [[antisemitism|antisemitic]]<ref name=AS/> website promoting [[Holocaust denial]]<ref>Levy, Steven. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NWEC&p_theme=nwec&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10C27458F301C128&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Google: Watch Out For 'Watch'"], ''[[Newsweek]]'', 26 April 2004, accessed 23 November 2010. {{subscription required}}</ref> and negative claims about [[Jews]]. The claims included [[conspiracy theories|allegations of a conspiracy]] that [[Antisemitic canard#Accusations of controlling the media|Jews control the media]] and banking,<ref>Elkin-Koren, Niva; Salzberger, Eli M. (2004). [https://books.google.com/books?id=RuXYXmfKo5IC&pg=PA72 ''Law, Economics and Cyberspace: The Effects of Cyberspace on the Economic Analysis of Law''], [[Edward Elgar Publishing]], p.&nbsp;72.

The site achieved notoriety in [[April 2004]] when it emerged as the first result in a [[Google]] [[search engine|search]] for the word [[Jew]].

* Also see, regarding media, [http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-controlledpress-folder.html "Jewish Controlled Press"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921101840/http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-controlledpress-folder.html |date=2012-09-21 }}, Jew Watch, accessed 23 November 2010.</ref> as well as accusations of Jewish involvement in terrorist groups. The site contained propaganda, according to Sam Varghese of ''[[The Age]]'', similar to [[Nazi propaganda|that used in Nazi Germany]].<ref>Varghese, Sam. [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/07/1081222513793.html "Online petition launched against anti-Semitic site"], ''[[The Age]]'', 7 April 2004, accessed 23 November 2010.</ref> It was widely considered a [[hate site]].<ref name=AS/> Jew Watch received support from [[Stormfront (website)|Stormfront]], a [[white nationalist]] and [[neo-Nazi]] site.<ref>[https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/DAILY-DIGEST-2786829.php "Daily Digest"], ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', 27 April 2004, accessed 23 November 2010.</ref> The site described itself as a "not-for-profit library for private study, scholarship, or research [that keeps] a close watch on Jewish Communities and organizations worldwide".<ref>Anderson, Jack; Cohn, Douglas. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=C4Vd9JCM9EcC&dat=20001024&printsec=frontpage "Hate groups discover the Internet"], ''[[The Hour (newspaper)|The Hour]]'', 24 October 2000, p.&nbsp;134.</ref>

The site received media attention in April 2004 when it emerged as the first result in a [[Google]] [[search engine|search]] for the word "[[Jew]]" and a petition was started to get the site removed from Google search results.<ref name="Wired1">Brandon, John. [https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/05/63380 "Dropping the bomb on Google"], ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'', 11 May 2004, accessed 23 November 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101012134604/http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/05/63380 |date=2010-10-12 }} 22 November 2010.</ref><ref name="RemoveJewWatch">[http://www.whynotmedia.com/removejewwatch.html "RemoveJewWatch.com"], WhyNot Media, accessed 23 November 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718042910/http://www.whynotmedia.com/removejewwatch.html |date=2011-07-18 }} 23 November 2010.</ref> A scandal in 2006 involved solicitations for donations to aid victims of [[Hurricane Katrina]] being redirected to Jew Watch.<ref name="ConsumerAffairs">[http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/mo_katrina_scam.html Missouri Sues To Stop Phony Katrina Relief Sites] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929094108/http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/mo_katrina_scam.html |date=2007-09-29 }} ConsumerAffairs. September 13, 2005</ref>

==Overview==

[[Image:Jew Watch introscreen.png|right|thumb|250px|Screenshot of Jew Watch's home page, [[May 9]] [[2006]] ]]

Jew Watch features an archive of opinion, writings, articles and [[hyperlink|links]], organized in the form of a Web directory. Although claiming neutrality, its material is organized under topic heads such as

*"Jewish-Zionist-Soviet Anti-American Spies,"

*"Jewish Communist Rulers & Killers,"

*"Jewish Terrorists,"

*"Jewish Controlled Press,"

*"Jewish Entertainment,"

*"Zionist Occupied Governments,"

*"Jewish Communists,"

*"Jewish Atrocities,"

*"Jewish Mind Control Mechanisms,"

*"Jewish Banking & Financial Manipulations,"

*"Jewish World Conspiracies" and many others.

==Ownership==

Jew Watch claims that the United States is ruled by a [[Zionist-Occupied Government]], that [[Communism]] was invented by Jews and was a Jewish plot to enslave the world, that Jews control the world finance system and the media. It also claims that the "All Anti-Christian Jewish Red Commisars" killed 100 million Christians in Russia from 1917-1945 under the orders of "Trotsky, the Jewish Commissar of [[Political commissar|Commissars]]". The site links to others which speculate that Jews have committed or are planning [[genocide]] against [[Christian]]s and against the [[Palestinian]] people, and that [[the Holocaust]] of [[World War II]] either never happened or was greatly exaggerated ([[Holocaust Denial]]).

Established in 1998,<ref>Finkelstein, Seth. [http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/000627.html "Frank Weltner (JewWatchCom) replies"], sethf.com, 4 June 2004, accessed 23 November 2010.</ref> the website was owned and maintained by Frank Weltner, a member of the [[National Alliance (United States)|National Alliance]], a [[white nationalism|white nationalist]] and [[White separatism|white separatist]] organization.<ref name=splc>{{cite web

|title=Radical Radio. Neo-Nazi broadcasting from St. Louis AM station

|url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=500

|publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]], Fall 2004

|access-date=2006-08-08

|archive-date=2012-08-13

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813024758/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2004/fall/radical-radio

|url-status=dead

}}</ref><ref name="He Is A Nazi">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-history-jewwatch-frank-weltner-personal.html|title=Jewish History – Frank Weltner – Personal Statement|access-date=2007-04-02|publisher=Jew Watch|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623092748/http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-history-jewwatch-frank-weltner-personal.html|archive-date=2012-06-23|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Perlmutter">{{cite journal|last=Perlmutter|first=Dawn|date=Fall 2001 – Winter 2002|title=Skandalon 2001: The Religious Practices of Modern Satanists and Terrorists|journal=Anthropoetics|volume=7|issue=2|pages=1–26|issn=1083-7264|oclc=32874935|url=http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0702/skandalon.htm|access-date=2008-07-30|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709042042/http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0702/skandalon.htm|archive-date=2008-07-09}} "[O]ne example is a [[white supremacy|white supremacist]] web site called Jew Watch"</ref>

==Themes==

Jew Watch also has a large list of names of celebrities and historical figures which it claims are Jewish or of Jewish descent. For example, it erroneously claims that individuals such as Joseph Stalin, Dwight David Eisenhower, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill were Jewish. The website also condemns Christianity for being a "Jewish Religion".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-religions-christianity.html | title=Jewish Religions - Christianity | publisher=Jew Watch | accessdate=2006-04-08}}</ref>

Jew Watch featured articles, videos, and [[hyperlink|links]], organized in the form of a [[Web directory]]. Content was organized under topic headings such as "[[Antisemitic canard#Accusations of controlling the media|Jewish Controlled Press]]", "[[Antisemitic canard#Controlling the global financial system|Jewish Banking & Financial Manipulations]]", "[[Blood libel|Jewish Communist Rulers & Killers]]", and "[[Zionist Occupied Government]]s – Z.O.G."

Jew Watch claimed that Jews control the world's financial systems and media.<ref name=JewishBankingandFinance>{{cite web|last1=Weltner|first1=Frank|title=Jew Watch – Jewish Banking and Financial Manipulations|url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-jewishbankingandfinancialmanipulations-folder.html|website=jewwatch.com|publisher=Jew Watch|access-date=20 December 2014}}</ref><ref name=JewishMedia>{{cite web|last1=Frank|first1=Weltner|title=The Jews Who Rule Media|url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-domination-media.htm|website=jewwatch.com|publisher=Jew Watch|access-date=20 December 2014|quote=Jews Do Rule the Media. This means they can control what we hear, see, think, and largely believe.|archive-date=18 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218024021/http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-domination-media.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> It also claimed that the "All Anti-Christian Jewish Red [[Political commissar|Commissars]]" killed 100 million Christians in Russia from 1917 to 1945 under the orders of "[[Leon Trotsky|Trotsky]], the Jewish Commissar of Commissars".<ref name="DeadChristians">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-occupiedgovernments-USSR.html#anchor19996|title=Jewish Occupied Governments – USSR – Jews and Communism|access-date=2007-03-20|publisher=Jew Watch|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070329062716/http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-occupiedgovernments-USSR.html#anchor19996|archive-date=2007-03-29|url-status=dead}}</ref> It said that global Jewry is the driving force behind both global [[economic antisemitism#Blame for the ills of capitalism|capitalism]] and [[Jewish Bolshevism|communism]].<ref name="JewsCapitalismCommunism">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-controlledpress-reports.html#anchor988507|title=Jewish Controlled Press – Reports by Historical Sources|access-date=2007-03-20|publisher=Jew Watch}}</ref> The site linked to others which speculate that Jews have committed or are planning [[genocide]] against the [[Palestinian people]];<ref name="JewsGenocidePalestinian">{{Cite web|url=http://jewwatch.com/jew-genocide-palestinian.html|title=Jewish Genocidal Murders of Others – Palestinian|access-date=2007-03-20|publisher=Jew Watch|archive-date=2007-03-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070315071256/http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-genocide-palestinian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> the site also promoted [[Holocaust denial]], maintaining that [[the Holocaust]] either never happened or was greatly exaggerated.<ref name="Holocaust">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-holocaust-lies-hoax-frauds-blackflagops-hoaxarchive.html|title=Jewish Holocaust – Media Lies – Frauds – Hoaxes|access-date=2007-03-20|publisher=JewWatch|archive-date=2007-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403073349/http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-holocaust-lies-hoax-frauds-blackflagops-hoaxarchive.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The site has a number of quotations which are purported to be from the [[Talmud]] or Jewish figures; without footnotes or proper citations these are impossible to verify; others are lifted entirely from ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'', a well-known anti-semitic forgery written in the late 19th century.

==Controversy==

Jew Watch purports to expose Jewish crimes against humanity. Its stated position is that Jews are responsible for every major war in the last 150 years, that Judaism hates all races of humanity (especially whites), and dominates the world by proxy through the United States. At the same time, it alleges in the documents stored that global Jewry seeks to destroy the United States itself since its power may soon be turned against Jewry. In addition, the website claims that the former Soviet Union, the United States, the former Soviet CIS states, Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, and France are "Jewish Occupied Governments."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-occupiedgovernments-folder.html | title=Jewish Occupied Governments | publisher=Jew Watch | accessdate=2006-04-08}}</ref>

===Google Search results===

On World War II, Jew Watch also holds documents that allege that the Holocaust was in fact the rain of fire discussed.<ref>{{cite web | first=Jonah | last=Goldberg | date=[[2000-08-15]] | url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah081500.asp | title= Proud and true: He's a Jew | publisher=Jewish World Review | accessdate=2006-04-08}}</ref>

Many news sources, [[weblog]]s, and general information sites linked to Jew Watch creating a [[Google bomb]] that led to the site being the first search result for the term "Jew." In May 2004, Steven Weinstock launched an online petition on RemoveJewWatch.com to remove Jew Watch from Google. By mid-2004 the site had collected over 125,000 signatures.<ref name="Wired1" /><ref name ="RemoveJewWatch" />

In response to complaints, including one from the [[Anti-Defamation League]] (ADL), Google added an explanation to searches for the site. They said their results are automatically ranked by computer [[algorithm]]s, and that they do not approve of any of the results.<ref>Daniels, Jessie (2009). [https://books.google.com/books?id=qT4AfMLJPY0C&pg=PA170 ''Cyber Racism: White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights''], [[Rowman & Littlefield]], p.&nbsp;170.

The increasing publicity has resulted in many news sources, [[weblog]]s and general information sites to link to Jew Watch. This creates an unintentional (or intentional) [[Google bomb]]. In May 2004, Steven Weinstock launched an online petition to remove Jew Watch from Google. "When performing a search for the word 'Jew' on Google, the first Web site listed is Jewwatch.com, a site that has been notorious for being anti-Semitic," Weinstock wrote in a widely disseminated e-mail.

* For the ADL letter to [[Sergey Brin]], see: [http://www.adl.org/internet/google_letter.asp "Google Responds to ADL"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041122010942/http://www.adl.org/internet/google_letter.asp|date=2004-11-22}}, Anti-Defamation League, 21 April 2004, accessed 23 November 2010.

Weinstock said he had contacted Google three times about the site but had not received a response. "In order for Google to remove this, they would need a petition of over 50,000 requests," Weinstock said. He set up an online petition site called RemoveJewWatch.com. Within a few days 2,000 signatures had been added to the list. Google reportedly said that they would not remove Jew Watch from their search engine no matter what petitions were presented. By mid-2004 the site had collected over 125,000 signatures, mostly favorable. The "removejewwatch" site went offline but can now be found at http://www.whynotmedia.com/removejewwatch.html.

* For Google's explanation, see: [https://www.google.com/explanation.html "An explanation of our search results"] [https://web.archive.org/web/20040607132019/https://www.google.com/explanation.html Archived] 2004-06-07 at the Wayback Machine [[Google]], accessed 23 November 2010.</ref>

In December 2004, [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe|OSCE]]'s Sandy Starr addressed the issues of [[freedom of speech]]:

Google's response, however, has been a sponsored link for the search term since 2004 which can be found at [http://www.google.com/explanation.html their site]. It explains how Google results are automatically ranked by computer algorithms.

<blockquote>When it transpired that the anti-Semitic website Jew Watch ranked highest in the search engine Google's results for the search term "Jew", a Remove Jew Watch campaign was established, to demand that Google remove the offending website from its listings. Fortunately for the principle of free speech, Google did not capitulate to this particular demand ... Forced to act on its own initiative, Remove Jew Watch successfully used Googlebombing ... Better still would have been either a proper contest of ideas between Jew Watch and Remove Jew Watch, or alternatively a decision that Jew Watch was beneath contempt and should simply be ignored. Not every crank and extremist warrants attention, even if they do occasionally manage to spoof search engine rankings.<ref>Starr, Sandy. [http://www.osce.org/fom/13846 "Hate speech on the Internet"], p. 140, accessed 18 August 2011, in [http://www.osce.org/item/13570.html "The Media Freedom Internet Cookbook"], [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]], 16 December 2004.</ref></blockquote>

In 2013, Jew Watch was still appearing on the first pages of Google Search results for the term "Jew."<ref>{{cite news |date=8 April 2013 |title=Anti-Semitism in information era |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4365361,00.html |newspaper=YnetNews }}</ref>

[[National Vanguard (American organization)|National Vanguard]] writer Kevin Strom claimed that Weinstock's efforts resulted in a "censor-fest" of Jew Watch and insisted "Our race deserves to live in freedom, and no trickster, thug, or con man can stop us from achieving that goal. We are going to win".<ref>{{cite web | first=Kevin | last=Strom | date=[[2004-04-24]] | url=http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=2728 | title=The Censorious Race | publisher=National Vanguard | accessdate=2006-04-08}}</ref> John Goth, in the same publication, described his "disgust" as a "loyal White man" at "the recent Jewish attacks on free speech and particularly, on JewWatch.com."<ref>{{cite web | first=John | last=Goth | date=[[2004-04-22]] | url=http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=2712 | title=The Jew Watch Saga Can Be Fun | publisher=National Vanguard | accessdate=2006-04-08}}</ref>

===Hurricane Katrina solicitations===

To this day Jew Watch fluctuates between the #1 and #2 positions for the search term “Jew” on the American Google site. (When Jew Watch is #2, the #1 slot is normally held by the [[Wikipedia]] article, [[Jew]]). On the Canadian Google site, Jew Watch is not displayed as a result at all, since it has been removed by Google due to complaints that the result was "illegal under ... local law."

St. Louis City Circuit Judge Julian L. Bush permanently barred Frank Weltner and his site InternetDonation.org from soliciting funds in Missouri for charitable purposes after it was revealed by State Attorney General [[Jay Nixon]] that Frank Weltner had set up multiple websites soliciting funds for victims of [[Hurricane Katrina]] and then redirected those wishing to donate to his site that collected money for Jew Watch.<ref name="ConsumerAffairs" /> A press release from the Attorney General said:

<blockquote>Anyone who takes advantage of the generosity and compassion of his fellow citizens in an attempt to fund his hate-filled Web site should never again be in the position to solicit charitable funds from well-meaning [[Missouri]]ans.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nixon obtains permanent injunction against JewWatch.com operator who deceptively solicited Katrina donations |url=http://www.ago.mo.gov/newsreleases/2006/102606b.htm |publisher=[[Attorney General]], 2006 |access-date=2007-02-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722030733/http://ago.mo.gov/newsreleases/2006/102606b.htm |archive-date=2012-07-22 }}</ref></blockquote>

==See also==

{{Portal|Internet}}

* [[Antisemitic canard]]

* [[Jihad Watch]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

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==External links==

==Further reading==

*[http://www.JewWatch.com/ Jew Watch]

* [[Judit Bar-Ilan|Bar-Ilan, Judit]]. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.20404/abstract "Web links and search engine ranking: The case of Google and the query "jew""], ''[[Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology]]'' '''57''' 12: 1581–1589, October 2006.

*[http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Jew&num=100&hl=en&c2coff=1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=off Google:Jew]

* Finkelstein, Seth. [http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/000570.html "'Jew Watch', Google, and Evil"], sethf.com, 30 March 2004, accessed 23 November 2010.

*[http://www.adl.org/internet/google_letter.asp Official letter of apology to Anti-Defamation League from Google's president]

* Finkelstein, Seth. [http://www.sethf.com/anticensorware/google/jew-watch.php "Jew Watch, Google, and Search Engine Optimization"], sethf.com, accessed 23 November 2010.

*[http://www.whynotmedia.com/removejewwatch.html "Removejewwatch" site]

* Kopytoff, Verne. [https://archive.today/20130208181913/http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-04-23/business/17423699_1_google-spokesman-sergey-brin-search-results "Google revisits policy on hate sites / Search engine to reconsider labeling in response to Jewish group upset by anti-Semitic content"], ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', 23 April 2004, accessed 23 November 2010.

*[http://www.google.com/explanation.html Google's statement on the issue]

* Romirowsky, Asaf. [https://archive.today/20070623105856/http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/14341/ "Anti-Semitism Hits Home via Google"], ''[[Jewish Exponent]]'', 25 October 2007, accessed 23 November 2010.

*[http://www.sethf.com/anticensorware/google/jew-watch.php Jew Watch, Google, and Search Engine Optimization] by [[Seth Finkelstein]]

*[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/technology/08fraud.ready.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1126233486-efUnl1zDqrO3exfYwXHbEA After the Storm, the Swindlers]

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