Netanyahu's son suspended by Facebook, Twitter for posting lawmaker's address

Facebook removed a social media post by the son of Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu which detailed the address of a right-wing lawmaker on Thursday, before three of his social media accounts were temporarily suspended.

Yair Netanyahu shared a poster on Instagram encouraging supporters of his embattled father to protest outside the home of Yamina MK Nir Orbach, in a bid to pressure the latter not to join a coalition deal aimed at ending his father's 12-year grip on Israeli politics.

Both Facebook and Instagram blocked Netanyahu’s account for 24 hours.

Yair took to Twitter to blame "left-wing tech censorship" for his father's election loss.

"Facebook, the Bolsheviks, blocked me for 24 hours because of this picture! The big tech, the deep state, and the pseudo-legal system – together with their puppets in the new government – are leading Israel into a very dark period. Let’s hope it won’t end with gulags."

Twitter moved to take down his outcry, blocking his account for 12 hours because it posted private information about someone else.

Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party expressed outrage in a series of tweets entitled "CENSORING THE RIGHT", alleging that the social media accounts of party activists who promoted the protest outside Orbach’s had also been banned.

Yair Netanyahu, who has been criticised for living a privileged life, is no stranger to being de-platformed by social media.

In December 2018, Facebook blocked him after he blasted the platform for acting as "thought police" and for sharing the screenshot of a previously banned post calling for the deaths of Israeli soldiers to be "avenged". He also called for Palestinians to be expelled, Haaretz have reported.

Around that time Facebook also deleted a post in which he said he would "prefer" if "all the Muslims leave the land of Israel".