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YouTube and the blind favoritism to Israel against humanity

Public Interest — By Samer Marzouq on January 19, 2009 at 11:35 am

I’ve always believed in YouTube’s credibility, especially when Google acquired it, both companies are among the very best human inventions ever, but I guess I was wrong, there is nothing purely independent and transparent in this world.

Many people reported that their videos about the recent Israeli massacres in Gaza were deleted by YouTube for no good reason, so I decided to take a look, and to be honest I was hoping they were just exaggerating, cause YouTube is the last free mass media that could help us in delivering the truth of the situation in the Middle East to the west, at least that’s what I thought then.

As I started browsing YouTube for video clips about Gaza, I was shocked by the misleading image of Palestinians as the terrorists, not the Israeli, who initiated this unjustified war against everything that is human, for some reason all clips in the search results on YouTube show the Palestinians as the killers not the victims.

And it doesn’t get any better when you find a clip about Gaza, most of these clips got couple of hundreds of views only, even they are two weeks old or even more, if you take into consideration the amount of rage and anger that hit the world because of this war you’ll feel there is something wrong here, these clips should be viewed tens or even hundreds of thousands of times.

Are they trying to hide the truth by burying these clips way back in the search results? Did they make sure it won’t appear in the related videos box on the right?

I really wish I’m wrong, YouTube is great, Google is great, but if they are manipulating the truth, then I guess they are just another part of system.

Here is a video clip that wasn’t deleted, I’m not sure why they’ve left it, maybe because the guy spoke Hebrew for a little bit, so people might think he is an Israeli.

    2 Comments

  • Sam says:

    The notion that YouTube is somehow part of a larger conspiracy is an assertion that borders, frankly, on the absurd. The reality is that there has not been many clips from Gaza because journalists have been banned from entering the Strip for the last few weeks. The reason that there are limited amounts of viewers on the available clips is because most of the people protesting are not necessarily as tech-savy as you are. These kind of speculations and paranoid claims delegitimizes our position as Arabs and leads to people calling us delusional. We have enough evidence of a conspiracy within the mainstream media without having to resort to accusing YouTube of conniving with the entrenched powers.

  • adem says:

    the reason is here _thejidf.org
    _youtube.com/user/TheJIDF
    _israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125783

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