Punishment demanded for anti-Semitic tweets after Israel's basketball win

May 21, 2014 -- Updated 1610 GMT (0010 HKT)

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans celebrate their team's win in Kikar Rabin or Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, on May 19, 2014
Final Basketball Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv Euroleague Israel Sunday after Spain Real Madrid beat some people on Twitter responded with vile anti-Semitic tweets.
" Now I understand Hitler and his hatred of the Jews ," he said one tweet. The user to move the tweet , apologized profusely , his " empty words " and was tweeting a joke not meant to offend .
Another team Maccabi Twitter disgusting hit the showers after the game , "but the gas chamber , I hope . "
Users also seem to have been removed . He cares about the hate tweets makes sense when such offenses should be considered invalid , arguing that an opinion article in the Spanish newspaper El Pais retweeted .
But some of the leaders of the Jewish community in Spain , these and many other tweets crossed a legal line .
"We stand up and say enough. , Let's do this," Benguigui Type , Barcelona president of the Jewish community , told CNN on Wednesday .
Jewish group calls for the punishment of the perpetrators have come together to file a legal complaint.
" This is not just a message that Spain " Benguigui said.
This team does not want these people in prison , he said. But they want some kind of conviction. "There is no problem of anti-Semitism in Spain . , I want to solve their problems," he said.
He found that one in four adults worldwide are published by the Anti -Defamation League , according to a recent global survey from 37% to 69 % in Greece and France , the third highest number in Western Europe "deeply affected by the anti-Semitic attitudes. " - In Spain , according to the study , the elderly population 29 % believe that most of the survey on anti-Semitic stereotypes .
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European nations that the United States does not have the same free speech protections. " If you cross the line , you encounter a problem," said Benguigui .
It is not clear how many Semitic Tweet
Many pious Jews offensive means " Jews " includes a complementary use a hashtag to follow. A software program such as Jewish groups complained that the tweets available at about 17,500, Benguigui said.
Complaints The number of tweets citing activated antisemitic world headlines . But in fact , I had many hashtags tweets of people saying it was offensive. In an interview with CNN, Benguigui groups were actually anti-Semitic does not know how much the tweets with the hashtag.
Hashtag trends are on the offensive against any team , it is because the people who are calling the offensive things and offensive messages often a mixture . Thanks Hitler for World War II ", # MerciHitlerPour3945 " It happened this week in France with the hashtag.
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Benguigui she and five other groups have identified offenders Twitter users . And he wants more of them identified . It is not a question of Twitter has been experiencing in recent years repeatedly.
Last year, a French court hate Twitter , CNN.com reports the Arstechnica technology website published a story about people who say they identify . In 2012 , under pressure from the Union of Jewish Students , French defense group , Twitter was agreed to remove the offending tweets. Also that year , love Berlin , Twitter was the first time the company has made a government request , Hannover is a German neo-Nazi Suspended account based in the city, the report said.
"We work very hard to protect people's experiences of Twitter , but unfortunately both offline and online to others who intend to cause distress to have a small number of people in this world," Twitter said Wednesday in a statement sent to CNN. " We treat people and Twitter directly aim to abuse and threats of violence when they sign , the Twitter users that they will abide . Against the rules are the rules that govern the way . "
With over 500 million tweets a day, in violation of the rule that "we depend on our users to report content," the statement said. To report a tweet , a user can open , "more" and then click " more Tweets . " Finished revising a real person .
Your site called " Transparency Report " , the government of Twitter , and the copyright notice requesting removal from the list of data requests. It also provides information on the different legal systems of different countries and chillingeffects.org website working with post moves .
Benguigui Jewish people in Spain have been going through the effort to see this as a sign . "We're not a secret for many years," he said. " We do not want to appear not to sound . "
It began in the 1400s and was not formally abolished until the 19th century , the Inquisition , quote .
"It's time to say ' we are at home we have the same rights we all have the same opportunity ,'" said Benguigui . "We have to educate people . "