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14
March 23 • 2017
jn
Website Hacked
Walk for Israel backers
express outrage, support.
RONELLE GRIER CONTRIBUTING WRITER
A
nother anti-Semitic act was
aimed at the local Jewish com-
munity when the Walk for
Israel website was hacked on Tuesday,
March 14. The hackers deleted the
website’s homepage and replaced it
with a black screen bearing a hateful
message (see screen shot above).
Andre Douville, CEO of the annual
Walk for Israel and executive direc-
tor of Temple Shir Shalom in West
Bloomfield, said he learned about the
hacking on Tuesday afternoon after
receiving several phone calls and text
messages from people who visited the
website.
In keeping with established proto-
col for these incidents, he called the
West Bloomfield Police Department,
which responded immediately.
West Bloomfield Police Chief Mike
Patton said detectives are working
with the FBI to determine whether
this was a bias-motivated incident or
cyber-crime that violates federal law.
On Monday, Douville reported, “The
authorities were able to track the hack
to an origination point in Southest
Asia. The FBI will report the details
to the corresponding government
agency counterparts, but I am not
confident anyone will be identified or
prosecuted for the hack.”
Patton said, “It’s unfortunate and
sad.” He added the incident seemed to
be bringing the community together
as news of the hacking spread.
Douville, who said his first reac-
tion was anger, contacted the website
hosting company, HostGator, which
immediately took down the hate-filled
screen and replaced it with a previous
Walk for Israel home page that had
been saved during a recent back up.
The company also performed a “
root cause analysis” to uncover infor-
mation that could help authorities
identify the perpetrators.
“I was very angry and dismayed,”
said Douville, “but we’re not going to
let this person or organization intimi-
date us.”
He has received hundreds of emails,
phone calls, texts and Facebook mes-
sages from people throughout the
community expressing their collective
outrage and support.
“They are telling us not to concede
and letting us know everyone will still
be coming to the walk,” Douville said.
“So, the hacking had the opposite
effect of what they [the hackers] were
trying to achieve.”
Gary Sikorski, director of com-
munity-wide security for the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit,
helped coordinate the investigation
with Douville and the West Bloomfield
Police Department. Sikorski said the
hacking is a reminder to all Jewish
organizations to make sure their
websites and online activities are pro-
tected as fully as possible.
When asked whether this incident
will prompt increased security at this
year’s Walk for Israel, Sikorski said,
“While it certainly has our attention,
security is always a high priority.
There is a lot of security preparation
before every walk; if anything, there is
an abundance of precaution.”
The hacking is a continuation of
several anti-Semitic incidents locally
and across the country that include
bomb threats aimed at multiple
Jewish organizations, anti-Semitic
incidents at schools and universi-
ties, and the desecration of Jewish
cemeteries in St. Louis, Philadelphia
and Rochester, N.Y.
The annual Walk for Israel will be
held on Sunday, March 7. Visit www.
walkforisrael.org for more informa-
tion. •
Look for a commentary from Andre
Douville on thejewishnews.com.