Editing Jew Watch (section)

==Controversy==

===Google Search results===
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.

* 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.
* 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]]:
<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>

===Hurricane Katrina solicitations===
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>