Sticking It to Hamas, on Twitter

November 15, 2012, 3:00pm

By Paul Berger

There?s nothing funny about war. So it?s unsurprising that a trending Twitter hashtag #HamasBumperStickers is being met with equal parts horror and glee.

?What?s the martyr with you??, ?I don?t break for Jews,? and ?My other car is also a mass of blackened, twisted metal? are just a few of the Tweets cascading out today under the #HamasBumperStickers hashtag.

For those unfamiliar with Twitter, a hashtag is a way of marking ? with a # ? a keyword or topic that other people can follow and post to. The People?s Cube, a satirical, conservative website, claimed credit for launching #HamasBumperStickers at 10pm on November 14. By Novembers 15, as Israeli and Palestinian Twitter feeds did virtual battle, #HamasBumperStickers was among the hottest trending topics on Twitter worldwide.

But not everyone was amused. ?So disgusted that something like #HamasBumperStickers is trending,? wrote Malak. ?It?s easier than ever now to identify racists and advocates of child murder on twitter,? wrote Patrick Galey. ?Just follow #HamasBumperStickers.?

When both sides are done flinging insults at each other, they might want to head over to Cafe Press, which offers a wide selection of pro- and anti- Hamas and Israel bumper stickers, from a Hamas flag rectangle decal ($5.20) to a ?JIHAD THIS? bumper sticker ($5).

Contact Paul Berger at berger@forward.com or on Twitter @pdberger.

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Source: http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/166177/

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