From the JDIF site:

JIDF shuts them down! - Combating hate and terror online
Jewish Herald Voice
December 21, 2009

The Rise and Fall of a Facebook Hate Group
First Monday
November 3, 2008

Hatred & Antisemtism Online
Jewish News Agency - Argentina
September 4, 2008

Facebook und Google Earth: Antisemitismus im Web 2.0
FAZ (German)
October 14, 2008

Facebook and Google Earth: Antisemitism in Web 2.0
FAZ (English Translation)
October 14, 2008

Еврейские силы интернет-обороны" атаковали антисемитское сообщество...
Russian News
August 1, 2008

Anti-Israel Facebook Groups Infiltrated
Canadian Jewish News
August 7, 2008

Israel - Facebook: "Anti-Semitic" group hijacked by Jewish Force
The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism
July 31, 2008

Anti-Semitic group hijacked by Jewish Force
Telegraph UK
July 31, 2008

Fighting back on Facebook
HonestReporting
July 31, 2008

Facebook Smackdown By the Numbers
HonestReporting
July 30, 2008

Jewish Internet Defense Force 'seizes control' of anti-Israel Faceb...
Jerusalem Post
July 29, 2008

Jewish Activists Hack Anti-Semitic Facebook Group
Israel National News
July 27, 2008

Еврейские силы интернет-обороны" атаковали антисемитское сообщество...
Russian News
August 1, 2008

Anti-Israel Facebook Groups Infiltrated
Canadian Jewish News
August 7, 2008

Israel - Facebook: "Anti-Semitic" group hijacked by Jewish Force
The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism
July 31, 2008

Anti-Semitic group hijacked by Jewish Force
Telegraph UK
July 31, 2008

Fighting back on Facebook
HonestReporting
July 31, 2008

Facebook Smackdown By the Numbers
HonestReporting
July 30, 2008

Jewish Internet Defense Force 'seizes control' of anti-Israel Faceb...
Jerusalem Post
July 29, 2008

Jewish Activists Hack Anti-Semitic Facebook Group
Israel National News
July 27, 2008

Jewish Activist Battles for Israel on Facebook
Israel National News
April 3, 2008

Facebook allows hate sites, ignores warnings, says group
BreakingNews.com
December 16, 2008

Solidarity with Israel:

The Arab-Israeli conflict 2.0
5 Towns Jewish Times
December 11, 2009

Blogs, YouTube: the new battleground of Gaza conflict
CS Monitor
January 23, 2009

Gaza crisis spills onto the web
BBC
January 14, 2009

NYT Journalist: Israelis dislike Obama due to Racism
Israel National News
April 17, 2010

NIF Staffer Accuses Israel Of State Terrorism
Five Towns Jewish Times
April 17, 2010

Internet Forces Watching Israel’s Back in Gaza, Global anti-Israel ...
Chesler Chronicles
December 29, 2008

An online battle for Israel's legitimacy
Ha'aretz
November 16, 2008

Twitter, Facebook users show solidarity with QassamCount
Jerusalem Post
January 4, 2009

Gaza Wars — On Facebook
Jewish Week
December 30, 2008

Against Holocaust Denial:

Facebook, Holocaust Denial, and Anti-Semitism 2.0 (report)
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
September 15, 2009

The rise of Hate 2.0
BBC
June 22, 2009

Call for hate groups to be taken offline
The National (UAE)
June 14, 2009

Facebook Refuses to Ban All Holocaust Denial Groups
Australian Jewish News
May 19, 2009

Is Facebook Changing its Tune on Holocaust Deniers?
CS Monitor
May 11, 2009

Twitter Campaign for Gilad Shalit:

"Tweet4Shalit" Campaign Reaches #2 Spot on Twitter
Jerusalem Post
August 27, 2009

Happy Birthday for Gilad Shalit?
Israel National News
August 7, 2009

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Tweeting For Shalit
Jewish Week
August 26, 2009

Against "Hate Israel" groups on Facebook:

'Facebook doesn't bar hate content against Jews'
Jerusalem Post
August 27, 2009

Facebook ignores calls to close 'Hate Israel' group
Jerusalem Post
April 22, 2009

Facebook Groups Promoting Hatred of Israel
Jewish News Agency, Argentina
May 9, 2009

Jewish anti-racist activists fight uphill battle with Facebook
Jerusalem Post
May 7, 2009

Against Nasrallah on Facebook

Social media users successfully face down Nasrallah on Facebook
Jerusalem Post
July 29, 2009

Facebook Singling Out Founder of JIDF

Facebook takes down activist who fights antisemitism, terror
Jewish Tribune
October 6, 2009

Internet Activist No Friend of Facebook
New York Jewish Week
September 30, 2009

General

100 Most Influential Jewish Twitterers (JIDF Ranked #1 Jewish NewsWire on Twitter)
JTA
May 1st, 2009

Digital World: Community Organizing 2.0
Jerusalem Post
May 12, 2009

Academic Reports

Facebook, Holocaust Denial, and Anti-Semitism 2.0
Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism Series, No. 86, JCPA
15 September 2009

Wrestling with Pigs

As George Bernard Shaw once said, "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."

It's probably best that the majority of you are not on a Twitter, where so many pigs seem to roam. Some of you are on there, and have seen us take on antisemites, jihadists, Israel haters, and other liars and frauds. We've also called out quite a few Jewish or pro-Israel organizations we feel have been neglecting our people, as they have failed to address the serious problems we have been trying to expose. Many of them also take backwards stands, which directly help fuel our enemies and in many cases, have helped to murder our people. As Hillel once said, "as there are no men, be a man." We translate that to "where there are no leaders, strive to be a leader." That is precisely what we have tried to do for many years now, doing things such as:

• Exposing the problems of antisemitic and jihadists content online, and criticizing those (like the entire mainstream Jewish establishment, for example) who have been negligent in helping us to fight this important fight, or that have simply not done enough, despite the fact that they have vastly more resources than we have
• Criticizing people, organizations, or policies that support the arming, funding, or feeding of our enemies
• Criticizing people, organizations, or policies that support the rewarding of Islamic terrorist enemies with Jewish Land
• Strongly advocating for the privacy, safety, and security of Jews and Israel supporters, and loudly criticizing those who try to breach the privacy, safety, or security of others, or who mock such concerns
• Criticizing Islam for the fact that it is, quite clearly, a hateful and violent ideology, and calling out its many supporters or defenders who claim "Islam is not the problem, 'radicial' or 'extremist' Islam, is"---as if Islam isn't radical and extreme, in and of itself. We have also called out the many who morally equate Islam with other religions, especially Judaism.
• Criticizing Christian missionaries who have an agenda or desire to convert the Jewish people, while maintaining friendships with Christians who respect Jews, despite our differences, and who realize that if all Jews were to convert, that would mean the destruction of the Jewish people!
• Criticizing Jewish organizations that are, quite simply, in bed with the Christian missionaries and who distort or deny history because of their desperation for this "friendship" (ie. Christian donor dollars)
• Criticizing those who are not careful with their rhetoric. For example, while we are strong against Islam, we do not talk about Muslims, or Arabs, in a general sense, and are very careful in making such distinctions, despite so many people's attempts to mischaracterize us. It is perfectly legitimate to criticize an ideology and quite another thing to make generalizations about people who may or may not be following it properly
• Criticizing those who are guilty of moral equivalence. It is indeed antisemitic to claim Jews are acting like "Nazis" and flat-out wrong to try to equate the Holocaust or Nazism to anything else. Granted, the only ideology out there today which might be able to be somewhat fairly compared to Nazism, is Islam. But we're not too fond of even doing that, as again, nothing can be fairly compared to the Holocaust. All such comparisons just help to water down our History and the significance of that event. That said, the Holocaust was really the culmination of antisemitism over the years. It was just "civilization" getting much more efficient with their hatred and murder of Jews, which has been happening in many different ways, for thousands of years and was not just limited to the most recent tragic episodes, the Holocaust.

Because we do these things, and take such stands, it has set us apart, and at odds, with many different people and entities----from religious right wing Jews, to secular left wing Jews, and so many non-Jews in between. There is, quite simply, many people and organizations who are supporting the wrong things.

This does not, however, mean that we are against unity. Quite the contrary, we yearn for it. But how can we unite with those who endanger Jews? How can we unite with liars? Frauds? And people who are just jerks?

We could be wildly "successful" (at least financially) if we just echoed the same stuff every Hasbara operation echoes, and put on a happy public face while we treat people like crap behind the scenes (as so many of the "leaders" of the major Hasbara ops, do).

But we are actually against Hasbara (which means "explanation"). Hasbara operations exist to try to explain Israel's actions. We feel our enemies, or people who just don't get it at this point, don't deserve an explanation. It's so often comes off as too much of an excuse, or a rationalization or apology, for Israel's totally justified actions in defending itself. In short, so often Hasbara effort just comes off as weak and ineffective. Antisemites and jihadists laugh right through it. And anti-Hasbara is, quite honestly, winning. The only people who want sugarcoated BS are the people who seem to espouse it. But it is authenticity that is a secret to our success. And we believe it reins supreme. The PR moves of the Israeli government are laughable, and sad. The more we feed our enemies and feel the need to tell the world how many tons of food and aid we're sending to Gaza every day, the more everyone is laughing at us. Because it is absurd. Meanwhile, they keep feeding the enemy, and keep broadcasting their compassion to the cruel, as if they deserve a cookie. But alas, those who are compassionate to the cruel, end up being cruel to the compassionate. While the IDF arms, funds, and feeds the enemy, it was also used to ethnically cleanse Jews from Gush Katif.

We hope you can see how and why the JIDF is different. And why we take such stands against absurdity. We understand many people and organizations out there are trying to do good things and that they have good hearts. So many of them are just totally misguided, and many, sadly, have been downright hostile to us. They have lied, and have been unfair in other ways, too.

The impact their general backwardness has had on us has been complex. On one hand, we realize just how important our stands are in this day and age of almost total moral and ethical bankruptcy among the Jewish-Israel advocacy world. On the other hand, it makes us realize why Israel and the Jewish people are losing, and we can see, firsthand, why so many of our enemies do indeed hate us.

Have you ever gone undercover to infiltrate a jihadist or Nazi group? We have. And we have noticed how much more peaceful it is on that side. It's unreal how united they are in their hatred and desire to murder us and wipe us off the map. We should be as united for good, as they are, for evil. We do truly desire and strive for unity. But how can we unite with those who are, quite literally, helping our enemies? How can we unite with unfair people? Liars? Stalkers? Bullies? Fellow Jews and Israel supporters who try to endanger others?