Twitter suspends account fighting racism by Pro-BDS students. Pls r/t pic.twitter.com/agJYYDZVS4— Rabbi Yonah (@RabbiYonah) May 17, 2016
Labels: anti-Semitism, BDS, censorship, Jew hatred, Twitter
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:11 AM
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Liberman told Army Radio that he was “more than surprised” at Barak, and said statements such as those given by the former minister would ultimately strengthen Iran.
“I think that when moves and discussions that should have been closely guarded state secrets are discussed by the press, it relays that you are a talker, that you aren’t serious, that you’re unreliable,” he said.
“That is why, among other reasons, Iran is being coddled by the international community, and we have been backed into a corner… These things should only have been discussed in closed forums.”
And the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee is opening an investigation... into how the tapes got out.Asked whether he believed Barak was guilty of revealing state secrets, Liberman responded that he had “no doubt” that was the case.
Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Tzahi Hanegbi (Likud) said on Sunday he intends to investigate whether information divulged by former Defense Minister Ehud Barak regarding a possible Iran strike was properly cleared for publication, and if so, why.
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Speaking to Israel Radio on Sunday, Hanegbi said such publications do not serve Israel's security interests. When asked if Barak harmed Israel's security, Hanegbi refuse to answer, but said that as the head of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee he plans to summon officials from the censor's office and hear their explanation.Hmmm.
Barak spoke of the plans in conversations with his biographers, Dani Dor and Ilan Kfir. Excerpts from the recordings were aired on Israel Channel 2’s weekly news magazine on Friday.
Channel 2 said Barak did not want the material released, but the IDF military censor approved the publication.
Labels: Avigdor Lieberman, Binyamin Netanyahu, censorship, Channel 2, Ehud Barak, Gabi Ashkenazi, IDF, Iranian nuclear threat, Israeli attack on Iran, Moshe Yaalon, Tzachi Hanegbi, Yuval Steinitz
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:35 PM
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The soldiers, who come from the Medical Corps, the Human Resources Directorate, and the Military Rabbinate, are accused of sending information about the identities of soldiers killed in action before the names had been made public. The messages that made their way around Israel included photos of the coffins of soldiers being prepared.While these arrests will certainly have a deterrent effect, I don't think they will change anything in the long run. We live in a global village and foreign media report things that the Israeli media tries to keep secret for far too long. While I agree in principle that families of casualties ought to hear about it from the IDF (where there are units that are trained in how to inform families) and not from the media, I also believe that the government and the IDF are not realistic about how quickly stories spread in this country. This is a small country, nearly everyone in the work place has been involved in the military at some point, and what you hear at a water cooler during your coffee break at the average high tech company is probably far more informative - and tempting to spread - than anything you might read on Israel Matzav. In fact, many people argue that with the rise of Twitter and WhatsApp and other instantaneous methods of disseminating information, blogging may soon be (or may already be) passe.
In a number of cases, relatives who received the messages learned of their loved ones’ deaths before they had received an official notification from the IDF. In other cases, false information reporting that soldiers had been killed had made it to their relatives. Those relatives spent hours thinking that tragedy had befallen them before the mistake could be clarified by the IDF.
“Notifying a family of a soldier or an officer who was killed in action is one of the most sensitive and well-planned procedures that exist in the military, as befits such a serious moment,” the military said.
The IDF said that the arrests followed an investigation that it described has having employed “both open-source and undercover means.”
“The unauthorized WhatsApp messages were irresponsible and spread quickly across social networks,” it said.
The issue of information passing via WhatsApp has been a serious one as of late for the army. A commercial played in recent weeks on Army Radio has instructed soldiers not to talk about operational information on the application for fear it could fall into the wrong hands.
Labels: censorship, IDF, Operation Protective Edge, Twitter, WhatsApp
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:08 AM
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Censorship boards in Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have confirmed to Paramount Pictures that they will not release the film, which stars Russell Crowe and begins its global release later this month.
Jordan, Kuwait and Egypt are expected to follow suit, stating that the movie offends Islamic teaching and the “feelings of the faithful” with its dark representation of a holy figure.
Al-Azhar, Egypt’s leading Sunni Muslim institute, criticised Noah in a statement on Thursday, arguing that the £75 million movie should be banned in the country.
“Al-Azhar renews its rejection to the screening of any production that characterizes Allah’s prophets and messengers and the companions of the Prophet (Muhammad),” the message read.
“Therefore, Al-Azhar announces the prohibition of the upcoming film about the Allah’s messenger Noah – peace be upon him.”
Paramount is unsurprised that Noah is facing difficulties in Muslim countries, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The studio has agreed to edit the film’s promotional materials to include a disclaimer making it clear that this is an imaginative adaptation of the Bible story, not a literal one.
“While artistic license has been taken, we believe that this film is true to the essence, values and integrity of a story that is a cornerstone of faith for millions of people worldwide,” Paramount’s statement reads.
Jennifer Connelly, Emma Watson, Anthony Hopkins and Logan Lerman also feature in Noah, based on the Book of Genesis story in which Noah builds an ark to save his family and pairs of animals from the great flood. In the Koran, a whole chapter is devoted to him as a holy messenger.Here's the trailer for Noah. Let's go to the videotape.
Labels: censorship, Islam, movies, Muslims, Noah's Ark
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:14 AM
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Labels: Blogger, blogosphere, censorship, Google
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:42 AM
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Many Palestinian journalists, and those in the Middle East, are forced to use Facebook to publish what their own media will not accept. The media in the West Bank is mostly controlled by the Palestinian Authority, which has repeatedly demonstrated a large degree of intolerance toward any form of criticism. The same applies, of course, to most Arab dictatorships.
Arab governments have obviously become wary of the use their critics are making of Facebook to air their grievances and opinions. In some countries, including the Palestinian Authority, intelligence services have set up special teams to monitor Facebook and other social media networks in search of critics and "dissidents."
But the problem becomes worse when Facebook itself starts removing material that bothers dictatorships and tyrants.
One can only hope that the same Facebook employee who "accidentally" removed the article will make the same mistake and close down accounts belonging to terrorist organizations and their leaders.
Take for example, the account of senior Hamas official Izzat al Risheq, or the numerous accounts that promote hatred and violence and are openly affiliated with terrorist and jihadi groups.
All one has to do is log in to these accounts, especially the ones in Arabic, to see how most of them are engaged in all forms of incitement.
Those behind these pages are not seeking to achieve progress by "challenging current conceptions," as George Bernard Shaw noted. Instead they are using Facebook, among others, to spread messages of hate and abuse against anyone who does not share their views.
Many Arab and Palestinian journalists and intellectuals have long been waging a fierce campaign to get rid of censorship in their countries. Some have even paid with their lives to achieve this goal, while many others have been arrested or are facing intimidation and terror. It is the duty of Facebook and Western societies to side with those seeking freedom, and not to be complicit in suppressing their voices.Read it all.
Labels: censorship, Facebook, Islamic terrorism, Khaled Abu Toameh
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:40 PM
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Labels: Blogger, blogosphere, censorship, Google
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:40 PM
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The Commentator has learned that following complaints from the Palestinian Authority and Jordanian security authorities about his articles dealing with corruption, Facebook had taken the steps necessary to effectively censor his work.
In speaking this morning to us, Abu Toameh noted, "All I have done recently is share some articles which have been in the Jordanian press (in Arabic) about corruption. I am for transparency, against corruption, and yet they ban my account and continue to allow the leader of Hamas to have an account. I am not in favour of terrorism like he is. This is an attempt to silence me. To do this to a journalist is very bad."
Facebook sent the following pro-forma e-mail to Abu Toameh yesterday evening: “You posted an item that violated our Terms of Use, and this item has been removed. Among other things, content that is hateful, threatening, or obscene is not allowed, nor is content that attacks an individual or group. Continued misuse of Facebook's features could result in your account being disabled.”
Toameh also told The Commentator that over the past few days, he has been the subject of much online abuse, as well as threats and an apparently concerted smear campaign against him.
This recently culminated in the posting of an article on the ‘Sabbah.biz’ website, accusing Toameh of being an ‘Israeli Hasbara agent’ and showing a picture of him with the Star of David on his head. The website is run by ‘Haitham Sabbah’, who is based out of Tulkarm in the West Bank.
A petition is already being circulated calling for Facebook to restore the account, stating: "It is not the role of Facebook to act as a censor of the truth so please sign to put pressure on to reopen this account if there is to be a chance for peace, stifling the truth and hiding the reality of corruption and incitement of hatred instead of promoting a peaceful solution is not the way."Disgraceful. Click through and sign the petition.
Labels: censorship, Facebook, Jordan, Khaled Abu Toameh, Palestinian Authority corruption
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:39 PM
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Labels: censorship, Charles Krauthammer, Islam
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:55 PM
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The IDF has censored a video taken in the last two weeks which allegedly shows 'Palestinian' terrorists using a woman as a human shield. The IDF imposed an embargo on a video allegedly documenting a Palestinian terrorist using a Palestinian woman as a human shield, Ynet discovered Sunday.Why is the IDF afraid of exposing the practices of 'Palestinian' terrorists? And why are we risking soldiers' lives to take this kind of video if we are not going to use it?
Footage taken by IDF cameras in the area clearly shows the terrorist holding the woman hostage, carying her as a barrier between himself and IDF forces.
The video documents an incident that took place two weeks ago, near the Gaza border: Seven Palestinians planting explosive devices north of Beit Lahia were intercepted by IDF soldiers. The soldiers opened fire, injuring some of the men.
The footage shows the terrorists running toward a group of farmers. Then, one of them grabbed a woman and carried her until taking cover behind a building.
Golani Brigade soldiers, who are currently deployed in the sector, and have had the opportunity to see the footage, said it was clear that the woman was forced to run with her assailant until he found cover.
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The IDF spokesman's unit said in response that, "The IDF uses the various means in its disposal to document its operational activities for purpose of debriefing, public diplomacy and possible criminal action.
"Nevertheless, for security reasons not all documented events are released for publication."
Labels: censorship, human shields, IDF, Palestinian terrorists
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:18 AM
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Israel Radio has ordered presenter Anat Davidov to stop giving out 90-second spots for individual opinions on the Friday afternoon mid-day newscast. The directors of the Israel Broadcasting Authority have ordered radio presenter Anat Davidov to drop the personal opinion pieces which air on her weekly "Midday Friday" program on Reshet Bet, sparking claims of censorship from journalists.My guess is that one of those affected will be Rabbi Binyamin Lau. Shame on the Broadcast Authority! Nanny State Radio!
The program offered 90 second spots to three or four speakers expressing their opinions on current events. However, last week Broadcasting Authority heads - including Miki Miro, the director of Israel Radio - met with Davidov and instructed her to do away with the personal slots. On Friday her program only included one such piece, which dealt with sport.
"Instead of encouraging dialog and discussion, they are silencing it," one Broadcasting Authority journalist said. "In such a year, an election year, along with the social protest, the connection and aim of such a move are blatant," he added.
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The Broadcasting Authority said, "As part of changes in the radio programs, a decision was also made to change the format of 'Midday Friday.' Other changes will also be implemented soon."
Labels: censorship, Israel Radio
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:51 PM
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Barry Rubin writes that an article he wrote about Egypt's Islamist takeover has been banned as 'hate speech' by a certain English-speaking European country. What this means is that if you work for any institution that is part of this government–including the Foreign or Defense ministries–you cannot read this PJ Media column on your computer that’s part of such a server.Disgusting. Read the whole thing.
The message reads: Access denied — reason given : hate speech.
My reader asks sarcastically if complaining about this action would constitute a “thought crime” on his part.
Update: A reliable reader reports the same thing happened on a business computer in the United States where the sheriff is apparently something called DansGuardian.
This is the first time ever that one of my articles has been so flagged. But it brings out an important point: A computer program that picks out “key words” can accuse you of a crime and block your free speech. If I had to guess at the phrase it would be my reference (that’s a guess) to “Muslim riots” in France several years ago. But they were riots by Muslims and that is not only factually correct but necessary for making an important point.
Apparently, this system has done the same thing to articles by other people before though I don’t know the details.
So there are two problems here:
–Free speech is now conditional on someone’s judgment of your viewpoint.
–That judge isn’t even a human being but a computer program that makes arbitrary selections out of context. Would the phrases “Christian riot,” “Hindu riot,” “Jewish riot,” “Caucasian riot,” etc., trigger an accusation of hate speech? Who decides? Where is this information available to the public? Perhaps we might be told what we are and aren’t allowed to say now so we can save time by censoring ourselves.
Labels: Barry Rubin, censorship, media bias
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:31 PM
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And speaking of censorship, my friend Jim Hoft reports that Bare Naked Islam, a blog that often links this blog, has been suspended by WordPress as a result of pressure by the Hamas front group CAIR (that first link is a cached page) (Hat Tip: Memeorandum).PR Newswire reported:Read the whole thing.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced today that an anti-Muslim Internet hate site that contained a number of threats of violence targeting mosques, including the comment “I want [Muslim] blood on my hands,” has been taken down by its hosting company.
CAIR said visitors to “Bare Naked Islam,” hosted by WordPress.com, now see the message: “barenakedislam.wordpress.com is no longer available. This blog has been archived or suspended for a violation of our Terms of Service.”
[NOTE: "Bare Naked Islam" was one of the major promoters of the campaign to pressure Lowe's to drops its ads from TLC's "All-American Muslim."]
Labels: blogosphere, CAIR, censorship, Sharia law
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:31 AM
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Imagine if one day, you couldn't reach Israel Matzav because it was blocked in your country. Imagine further that it was blocked without yours truly even being told about it and given a chance to respond. Or imagine that all of blogspot was blocked the same way. Those are all possible results of bills working their way through the House and Senate right now (Hat Tip: Red Tulips). The legislation — the Protect IP Act, which has been introduced in the Senate, and a House version known as the Stop Online Piracy Act — have an impressive array of well-financed backers, including the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Motion Picture Association of America, the American Federation of Musicians, the Directors Guild of America, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Screen Actors Guild. The bills aim not to censor political or religious speech as China does, but to protect American intellectual property. Alarm at the infringement of creative works through the Internet is justifiable. The solutions offered by the legislation, however, threaten to inflict collateral damage on democratic discourse and dissent both at home and around the world.It's been a long time since I agreed with the Left on something (the writer, Rebecca MacKinnon, is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation). It just happened. Write to your Senators and Representative. Don't censor the internet.
The bills would empower the attorney general to create a blacklist of sites to be blocked by Internet service providers, search engines, payment providers and advertising networks, all without a court hearing or a trial. The House version goes further, allowing private companies to sue service providers for even briefly and unknowingly hosting content that infringes on copyright — a sharp change from current law, which protects the service providers from civil liability if they remove the problematic content immediately upon notification. The intention is not the same as China’s Great Firewall, a nationwide system of Web censorship, but the practical effect could be similar.
Abuses under existing American law serve as troubling predictors for the kinds of abuse by private actors that the House bill would make possible. Take, for example, the cease-and-desist letters that Diebold, a maker of voting machines, sent in 2003, demanding that Internet service providers shut down Web sites that had published internal company e-mails about problems with the company’s voting machines. The letter cited copyright violations, and most of the service providers took down the content without question, despite the strong case to be made that the material was speech protected under the First Amendment.
The House bill would also emulate China’s system of corporate “self-discipline,” making companies liable for users’ actions. The burden would be on the Web site operator to prove that the site was not being used for copyright infringement. The effect on user-generated sites like YouTube would be chilling.
YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have played an important role in political movements from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park. At present, social networking services are protected by a “safe harbor” provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which grants Web sites immunity from prosecution as long as they act in good faith to take down infringing content as soon as rights-holders point it out to them. The House bill would destroy that immunity, putting the onus on YouTube to vet videos in advance or risk legal action. It would put Twitter in a similar position to that of its Chinese cousin, Weibo, which reportedly employs around 1,000 people to monitor and censor user content and keep the company in good standing with authorities.
Labels: censorship, internet regulation
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:19 PM
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Some 'Palestinians' are awakening to the reality that would be a 'Palestinian state' under the control of Abu Mazen and Ismail Haniyeh. I am not alone. There are a host of other Palestinians today who are not altogether enthused about the emergence of a Palestinian state any time in the near future.What could go wrong?
This notion, that engaged Palestinians are alienated from the heroic narrative in their modern history, is difficult to explain, for it will give rise to misunderstanding, however cautiously it is put. But here's the painful truth: an independent Palestine, as envisioned by the current leadership — a handful of men with a powerful security force whose intrusion into citizens' daily lives and violent repression of these citizens' right to free speech is well-documented — will more than likely pan out as a police state.
We are all familiar by now with the Palestinian National Authority's encroachment on independent opinion in the media and heretical thought in academia, as we are equally familiar with its relentless pursuit of individuals espousing adversarial voices, its hysterical fear of the free flow of ideas — which are central to the health of the body politic — and the rest of it.
Now, consider this latest outrage: the PNA's Minister of Religious Affairs, Mahmoud Habbash, has in recent months been sending e-mail missives to the 1,800 mosques across the West Bank dictating, word for word, the Friday sermon that every imam should deliver to his congregation.
The policy is enforced in a grotesquely authoritarian manner — recalcitrant imams are either incarcerated or terminated. Shaikh Hamid Bitawi, a noted Islamic scholar who had delivered sermons in the Nablus area for well over four decades, was unceremoniously fired recently.
Reportedly, dozens of other, though lesser known preachers have met a similar fate, prevented from ever again mounting the pulpits of their mosques to address their congregations.
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In the West Bank, our political destiny has been left to semi-literate government officials who couldn't run a lunch counter, haven't read half a dozen decent books in their lives, and do not know of those charities of the imagination that are essential to literate minds.
And in Gaza, a pauperised strip of land reduced to becoming a kind of placeless place, left adrift by an equally clueless leadership, life is defined by the hazy utopianism of political Islam, a political Islam mockingly remote from citizens' immediate needs.
It is all sad, but it is all true.
Labels: censorship, Fatah, Hamas, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:48 PM
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I trust you all remember Inspector Tamim, the Dubai police chief who is still looking for the real killers of Hamas terrorist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.Hey Carl..I went to Dubai on my honeymoon ten years ago, so I decided to go back for my ten year anniversary...naturally, I can't go a day without your blog...and guess what....you are blocked in the united arab emirates! All the other blogs and israeli sites worked. U must have really pisssed somebody off!
Feel free to post it!
Happy purim
That's two this week. Heh.Labels: censorship, Dubai, Inspector Tamim, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:41 PM
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The problem is not that YouTube never steps in. The problem is they are liable to step in only when there is public exposure of content they wrongly ignored, or when political pressure is applied.Indeed, it does. Read the whole thing.
YouTube also seems to have started giving in to pressure to remove videos and channels that expose and educate against hate.
A few months ago, for example, efforts were made to shut down the YouTube presence of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). The institute provides the English-speaking world with insight into the Mideast media. Some of the exposure is not welcome by those who say one thing in English to a Western audience and another thing at home.
The MEMRI debacle seems to have been resolved, but YouTube is now going after Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) which fulfills a similar role, focused exclusively on the Palestinian media.
PMW monitors, translates and shares examples of incitement. It was PMW that exposed the use of a Mickey Mouse character inciting hate and violence on the Hamas TV children’s show “The Pioneers of Tomorrow.”
That story created shock waves around the world, leading to discussions in the Western mainstream media and at the UN of the link between incitement in the media and terrorism.
PMW’s violation appears to be that it was posting “hate material.”
There is no doubt that it was. However, like MEMRI, that material was not shared for the purpose of incitement, but to expose and counter the spread of hate. Some commentators have speculated that it is not the hate against Jews, Israelis and Americans – as shown in MEMRI and PMW videos – that is the problem, but rather the fact that the videos might cause a backlash against those promoting such hate.
Any argument that uses free speech to prevent the exposure of hate speech is inherently deeply flawed.
YouTube needs to get its act together.
Labels: censorship, Palestinian Media Watch, YouTube
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:48 PM
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YouTube closed PMW's main account - PALWATCH - for "violating YouTube terms of use" by propagating hate speech and they specified the videos listed below:I don't understand something here. Why was there no outcry when the previous five videos were taken down? Why did we wait for the account to be blocked altogether?
1. "Hamas TV teaches kids to kill Jews" formerly at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwN2M6ZIIRU
Removed for violating our Terms of Use on 10/02/2009.
2. "Jews are a virus like Aids" formerly at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYaGl3KjPUw
Removed for violating our Terms of Use on 01/18/2010.
3. "Farewell video before suicide attack of Hamas suicide bomber Adham Ahmad Hujyla Abu Jandal" formerly athttp ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYdTudQhWM4
Removed for violating our Terms of Use on 06/10/2010.
4. "Hamas suicide farewell video: Jews monkeys and pigs; Maidens reward for killing Jews" formerly athttp ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryc7RqXlVdE
Removed for violating our Terms of Use on 08/14/2010.
5. "PA cleric: Kill Jews, Allah will make Muslims masters over Jews" formerly at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjuDTO8fgqM
Removed for violating our Terms of Use on 12/12/2010.
Please see http://www.youtube.com/t/terms and http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines
6. "Hamas suicide terrorist farewell video: Palestinians drink the blood of Jews" formerly athttp ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSftYIGH6-w
Removed for violating our Terms of Use on 12/15/2010.
The claim is that our videos, which expose the hate speech propagated by the Palestinian leadership and controlled media, themselves represent hate speech.
YouTube stated that the account was henceforth terminated "due to repeated or severe violations of our Terms of Use".
Since 2009 they have been deleting specified videos - those mentioned above - but now "terminated" the entire account due to no 6 above.
Labels: censorship, Palestinian Media Watch, YouTube
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:27 AM
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You thought Turkey was a relatively free country didn't you? According to this report by Michael Totten, the Turkish media is controlled tightly enough that most Turks are living a lie regarding what happened on the Mavi Marmara last May.Claire Berlinski’s must-read article in the September issue of Standpoint describes how the overwhelming majority of Turks have no idea what really happened earlier this year aboard the Turkish Mavi Marmara vessel, where an Israeli boarding party enforcing the blockade of Gaza was ambushed in a premeditated attack with knives and iron bars.This video that I showed you earlier in the week is the trailer for a movie that is likely to convince more Turks that their government's narrative is correct. And this in a country that was once a candidate for EU membership.
She canvassed Istanbul — where she lives — with a Turkish documentary filmmaker and interviewed a number of local people about that now-notorious incident. None knew the Israelis acted in self-defense when they shot their attackers.
“The men and women to whom we spoke,” she wrote, “were astonished when we told them that Israeli officials had invited the ship to disembark at Ashdod and deliver the aid overland. But they were not disbelieving — and importantly, when we told them this, it changed their view. Many spontaneously said that they knew they could not trust what they heard in the news, that the situation confused them and that something about the story just didn’t sound right.”
Unfortunately, few Turks will ever know what really happened that night. The Turkish media reported a grossly distorted version of the events, describing the attackers as “activists” and the Israelis who fought back as murderers. Most Turks can’t read or speak foreign languages and are therefore unable to learn the truth from newspapers abroad.
Labels: censorship, Mavi Marmara, Turkey
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:08 AM
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I am an Orthodox Jew - some would even call me 'ultra-Orthodox.' Born in Boston, I was a corporate and securities attorney in New York City for seven years before making aliya to Israel in 1991 (I don't look it but I really am that old :-). I have been happily married to the same woman for thirty-five years, and we have eight children (bli ayin hara) ranging in age from 13 to 33 years and nine grandchildren. Four of our children are married! Before I started blogging I was a heavy contributor on a number of email lists and ran an email list called the Matzav from 2000-2004. You can contact me at: IsraelMatzav at gmail dot com
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