| No images? Click here   Former Naftali Bennett adviser Barak Herscowitz told TikTok management it was allowing 'hostile propaganda against Israel and Jews' to proliferate on the platform.By Lahav Harkov Barak Herscowitz, TikTok’s leading government relations figure in Israel, resigned amid criticism of the Chinese-owned video app for allowing anti-Israel and antisemitic content to proliferate on its platform. Herscowitz, a former adviser to then-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett whose title at TikTok was vertical lead in the government and public sector, was behind an internal memo highlighting the platform’s discrimination against Israelis last year, according to a source at TikTok. “I resigned from TikTok,” he wrote, announcing his resignation via X (formerly Twitter) on Monday. “We are living in a time in which our existence as Jews and Israelis is under attack and in danger." You May Have MissedCOMINGS AND GOINGSTom Nides joins Blackstone as vice chairman for client relations and strategyNides served as Biden’s ambassador to Israel from 2021-2023 SCOOPGottheimer to call on U.N. secretary-general, UNRWA chief to step downThe letter will cite a series of issues in the U.N.’s response to the Oct. 7 attack in Israel, including UNRWA employees’ participation in the Hamas assault Coming Up      |
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TikTok’s top lobbyist in Israel quits over antisemitism on platform
