"Israel has become the seventh country in Google’s plan to expand its control over the internet video advertising market.
According to the Globes business news service, the Internet search engine giant has chosen Israel for its video advertising pilot using the self-broadcast, video sharing YouTube site.
Local advertising agencies in the Jewish State will participate in the program, which runs for a year and is aimed increasing the use of the Google-owned video platform."
"Following criticism of its failure to remove terrorist content, the video-sharing site YouTube plans a new system that will get terror videos offline more quickly. According to U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, YouTube sent him a letter describing a new system that will allow viewers to label videos as promoting terrorism.
The site currently allows viewers to flag videos as inappropriate, however, there is no distinction made between videos that promote terrorism or violence and those that are inappropriate for other reasons.
Critics have accused the site of hosting thousands of videos created by various terrorist groups, and of making too little effort to track and remove incitement."
"Video below: A special video recording of 'Oseh Shalom' recorded by cantors was made to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Israel's establishment.
A video recording of 'Oseh Shalom' by Britain’s Chief Rabbi, recorded to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel, has just passed 1 million hits on YouTube.
The recording features Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with soloist chazzans Jonny Rugel, Shimon Craimer and Rabbi Lionel Rosenfeld along with the Shabbaton Choir and children from the Moriah Jewish Day School in London."
"Video below: Today, in a letter to YouTube CEO Chad Hurley, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D – Queens and Brooklyn) called for the removal of terrorist videos featuring Anwar al-Awlaki, dubbed the 'Bin Laden of the Internet,' who is using the site to find new recruits and promote radical Islamic extremism and violent jihad against Americans.
An examination by Weiner’s office found that al-Awlaki, who shares dual citizenship between the United States and Yemen, has appeared in over 700 videos on YouTube with a combined 3.5 million views.
'We are facilitating the recruitment of homegrown terror,' Weiner said. 'There is no reason we should give killers like al-Awlaki access to one of the world’s largest bully pulpits so they can inspire more violent acts within our borders, or anywhere else in the world.'
'The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) hopes that YouTube will take advantage of the information we have provided to them of specific terrorist videos that are hosted on their website, and will exercise corporate responsibility and a concern for American safety by working with us to remove such content,' said Elliot Zweig, Director of New York Operations for The Middle East Media Research Institute (www.memri.org).
Al-Awlaki has been connected to several terrorist plots, including contact with three of the 9/11 hijackers who attended his sermons. He reportedly met privately with at least two of them. Currently, al-Awlaki’s sermons can reach countless others via YouTube and similar social media outlets. To date, hundreds of al-Awlaki’s diatribes have been uploaded to YouTube, many of which have tens of thousands of views. A study by Weiner’s office found 712 videos featuring sermons from al-Awlaki with a combined 3,507,200 views.
Nidal Malik Hasan, the accused Fort Hood shooter, reportedly attended several of al-Awlaki’s sermons and even corresponded with him. U.S. intelligence intercepted at least 18 emails between Hasan and al-Awlaki between December 2008 and June 2009, including one in which Hasan wrote: 'I can’t wait to join you in the afterlife.' After the Fort Hood shooting, al-Awlaki praised Hasan’s actions.
The 'Christmas Day bomber' Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, met with al-Awlaki, and admitted that he was one of his al-Qaeda trainers involved in planning or preparing the attack and providing religious justification for it, according to unnamed U.S. intelligence officials. In March 2010, al-Awlaki said in a videotape delivered to CNN that jihad against America was binding upon himself and every other able Muslim.
According to news reports, al-Awlaki has been added to a shortlist of U.S. citizens specifically targeted for killing or capture by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Additionally, on December 24th, 2009 President Obama approved an ultimately unsuccessful strike against a compound where Anwar al-Awlaki was thought to be meeting with other regional al-Qaeda leaders.
'I understand that YouTube is a clearing house for ideas and that your company aims to not infringe on free speech, but al-Awlaki’s message, promoted via YouTube, has caused violence and is a threat to American security,' Weiner wrote in the letter.
Full text of the Weiner’s letter to YouTube below:
October 24, 2010
Mr. Chad Hurley
CEO
YouTube
Dear Mr. Hurley:
A known terrorist named Anwar al-Awlaki, dubbed the ‘bin-Laden of the internet,’ has been using YouTube to promote his extremist ideology and recruit a new generation of terrorists. I am asking that you remove all videos featuring Anwar al-Awlaki from your website and set up safeguards to prevent future videos of from being posted.
Hundreds of al-Awlaki videos are currently available on YouTube, with a combined total of over 3.5 million views. In these videos, al-Awlaki preaches violence against Americans and actions back up his online message. Al-Awlaki met with several of the 9/11 hijackers prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center, and U.S. authorities have email exchanges between him and Nidal Malik Hasan, the accused Fort Hood shooter – emails in which al-Awlaki encouraged Hasan to kill innocent Americans. Hasan then went on to do just that, on our own soil.
I understand that YouTube is a clearing house for ideas and that your company aims to not infringe on free speech, but al-Awlaki’s message, promoted via YouTube, has caused violence and is a threat to American security. I request that you remove this man and his hateful rhetoric from your website, as he poses a clear and present danger to American citizens.
I thank you in advance for your prompt attention and reply to this matter.
"First Facebook and Twitter, and now YouTube are part of Israel’s conquest of digital diplomacy.
The Foreign Ministry launched its official Youtube channel on Wednesday at the web address youtube.com/Israel, with the channel featuring nearly 130 videos about life in Israel. Until Wednesday, all of the Foreign Ministry’s videos were presented on the Israel MFA page.
The launch of the Israel YouTube account comes a month after the Foreign Ministry paid a Spanish man 3 thousand dollars to release the rights to the @Israel Twitter page."
"A panel of judges will select 20 videos from 125 finalists to be displayed in gallery at the Guggenheim Museum in New York from Oct. 22-24.
Six videos created by Israeli artists were among the 125 chosen as finalists in the Guggenheim Museum's YouTube Play contest.
Israel has the third most finalists in the contest, behind only the United States and England. The 125 finalists were culled from more than 23,000 entries from 91 countries."
"YouTube Israel on Sunday announced the launch of a Hebrew-language interface that allows customization of the popular video site in order to properly view Hebrew language content, the Israel Globes business website reported.
'Two years after we launched YouTube in Israel, during which Israeli users have become an integral part of the international YouTube community, we are pleased to launch the Hebrew interface today,' Google Israel Vice President Riki Drori said in a statement.
'We believe that this will enable the Israeli user to share, search and view video content more easily,' Drori said.
Recent surveys say viewers lately have put YouTube's local popularity at third place in the country, ahead of the Ynet Hebrew news site and Walla! portal." (source)
I ran various searches for Anti-Israel and Antisemitic video footage and managed to find only a few so far but I will be updating the list below regularly.
Once again I would like the help of each of you to have these propaganda based videos removed from Youtube by flagging them as inappropriate.
To report these videos as inappropriate, follow the steps below.
On the bottom right of each video you will see an < Embed > button, right next to that is a symbol of a flag, press this button then select the following "Hateful or Abusive Content" --> "promotes hatred or violence". Once you have done that, then select "national origin" from the drop down menu if it is related to Israel or select "religion" if it is related to Jews...
The success of these removals is based on the effort you put in to report these videos, so I ask that you please take a little bit of time out to do this... Thank you!
UPDATE: 66 videos removed so far...
Click here to download the HTML link list or you can use the links below...
