Today I stumbled upon a story about the Facebook soldier, Eden Abergil, who had her picture taken with bound and blindfolded Palestinians. In the article, she boasted that she hated Arabs and wished they were all dead.
The article itself was cut and pasted onto another website, in its entirety, yet the original article is now gone. A quick google search reveals that several other blogs and websites read the story earlier as well and have portions of the original article on their sites.
There is no explanation as to why the story was pulled. Censorship of any kind is wrong, especially when you are reporting a legitimate news story. If the story needs to be edited, then do so and inform your readers that you did so. Deleting it with no explanation is wrong and leads to a distrust of media. Fortunately, the story is also being covered by Haaretz. It is unlikely that their story will magically disappear.
