Israel said on Thursday it had asked Facebook and YouTube to remove videos it says have been encouraging Palestinian violence against Israelis in the past week.
Four Israelis have been killed in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank in the past week, and two Palestinians have been shot dead and scores injured in clashes with security services. Three suspected Palestinian assailants have been killed by police.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon, providing an excerpt from a letter sent to Google Israel, whose parent company owns YouTube, said contact had also been made with Facebook.
“The videos depict recent terror attacks, praise the assailants and present Jews and Israelis in a hateful and racist manner, and since their publishing, three more attacks have taken place so far,” the letter said.
Spokespeople for Facebook and Google Inc said they could not comment on specific videos or contacts with governments.
“YouTube has clear policies that prohibit content like gratuitous violence, hate speech and incitement to commit violent acts, and we remove videos violating these policies when flagged by our users,” said Google spokesman Paul Solomon.
The letter to Google included two YouTube video links, one of which has already been removed.
In one clip, archived on an Israeli news site, a song in Arabic-accented Hebrew calls for the killing of “Zionists” while another is an animation of the drive-by shooting of an Israeli couple killed in the West Bank a week ago.
Asked about the Israeli appeal, a Facebook spokeswoman said: “We want people to feel safe when using Facebook. There is no place for content encouraging violence, direct threats, terrorism or hate speech on Facebook.”
The spokeswoman declined to comment on whether Facebook had received complaints about anti-Arab postings.
But she said Facebook, as a rule, urged people “to use our reporting tools if they find content that they believe violates our standards so we can investigate and take swift action.”
Social media sites often flare-up when Israeli-Palestinian violence rises, such as the 2014 Israel-Gaza war, with fiery debates between users and sometimes even officials or fighters on either side, spreading across digital platforms.
A comment posted this week on the Facebook page of a prominent far-right Israeli settler activist called for people to use clubs to beat Arabs in Jerusalem’s Old City, where two Israelis were stabbed to death.
7 thoughts on “Israel Accuses YouTube Videos and Facebook Posts of Stoking Violence”
Well DOH! —> “The videos depict recent terror attacks, praise the assailants and present Jews and Israelis in a hateful and racist manner, ..”
Racism??…..Judaism is BASED upon racism and couldn’t exist without it:- ‘god’s chosen people’…and many generations of dedicated inbreeding has resulted in a distinctive jewish genetic racial structure.
Hatred??…. What’s not to hate??
Time for a third Intifada! Israelis need some of their own medicine! Terrorize & kill them! Make their lives miserable in occupied Palestine! Yes! It is HATE! It goes beyond Hate! Hate is too loving a term for the Zionist devils! One day the scum Israelis will burn for real!
Hezbollah has fine-tuned their fighting skills and added to their weapons. Next time they meet the IDF, the Ashkenazi Jews will wet their pants and cry for Mommy as they’re being killed for their crimes against humanity. Punks! Hopefully, next time, more than just one American Jew serving in the IDF will go home in a box!
The Jews can’t take casualties, therefore are afraid of fighting real men.
You Tube is a subsidiary of the NSA. They want the “Jihadis” to keep posting so they can form a social networking map of suspects.
If YT and FB go too hard, dissidents will look elsewhere and “do their own thing”.
FB and YT are a “honey pot” and “kindergarten” where naughty dissidents play under adult supervision and have their computers infected with NSA malware when they log on.Like the Bolsheviks in post revolutionary Russia – Israel lets wannabe dissidents play, meet, chat and connect. Then, when the hammer comes down they clean them up in one go.
The lions at the NSA/Israel do not want the water hole fenced off. They want to see which gazelles are coming in to drink.
If people really understood what was happening when they went online and especially when they logged onto a Google service they would be horrified.
There are things you can do but it is very tiring to learn.
So, carry on regardless and hope for the best.
The perpetual Israeli crimes against the Palestinians are numbered.
@#2,
I am suspicious of you.
I am cautious of all that revel in killing others more
than they do defending themselves and their justified cause.
ISIS does the same as you. Israel does the same as
you.
You identify Ashkenazi and American Jews only.
True,”Jews can’t take casualties, therefore are afraid of fighting
real men.”
It now appears that Putin is providing a way for the indigenous
Arabs to defend themselves. God willing, he will incorporate a
coalition of indigenous to strategically and politically surround this Judaic monster
(Converts or not) that has haunted this world for thousands of years now.
I would rather watch a Jew live in his own pity than to watch him die
in his own pride.
This is the shame that I wish upon the Jews. Not that he dies at our hands
not knowing the shame of his existence.
I wish that the Jew lives, and see the rest of the world peaceful and happy
because we overcame this cancer that they inflicted on our world body.
I want these monster Jews to see this.
I want to see the shame in their eyes when we look down upon them.
I want the Palestinians to see for themselves what God said.
“I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but
are the synagogue of Satan.
Fear none of those things which thou shall suffer; behold,the devil shall cast
some of you into prison, that ye may be tried;–be thou faithful unto death,
and I will give thee the crown of life.” Rev 2-9,10.
All of my friends are Arabs. Regardless of them being Christian or Muslim,
I have never once heard they wanted to kill Jews or anyone else.
I have heard them tell me that these people are the devil.
All of the evidence that I have seen tells me they are correct.
I want to see the Jews to see the whole world looking at them with
this final judgement with Palestinians and their cousins sitting in the front
of that courtroom.
I want to see Jewish shame. I have never seen this sort of humanity from
them in my whole life.
Todd Raine #5: “I wish that the Jew lives, and see the rest of the world peaceful and happy
because we overcame this cancer that they inflicted on our world body.”
May your compassionate conscience lead by example.
Bob Smith #3: “The lions at the NSA/Israel do not want the water hole fenced off. They want to see which gazelles are coming in to drink.”
Beautifully expressed.
“So, carry on regardless and hope for the best.”
Yes, and may the number of us gazelles grow ever larger.
Well DOH! —> “The videos depict recent terror attacks, praise the assailants and present Jews and Israelis in a hateful and racist manner, ..”
Racism??…..Judaism is BASED upon racism and couldn’t exist without it:- ‘god’s chosen people’…and many generations of dedicated inbreeding has resulted in a distinctive jewish genetic racial structure.
Hatred??…. What’s not to hate??
Time for a third Intifada! Israelis need some of their own medicine! Terrorize & kill them! Make their lives miserable in occupied Palestine! Yes! It is HATE! It goes beyond Hate! Hate is too loving a term for the Zionist devils! One day the scum Israelis will burn for real!
Hezbollah has fine-tuned their fighting skills and added to their weapons. Next time they meet the IDF, the Ashkenazi Jews will wet their pants and cry for Mommy as they’re being killed for their crimes against humanity. Punks! Hopefully, next time, more than just one American Jew serving in the IDF will go home in a box!
The Jews can’t take casualties, therefore are afraid of fighting real men.
You Tube is a subsidiary of the NSA. They want the “Jihadis” to keep posting so they can form a social networking map of suspects.
If YT and FB go too hard, dissidents will look elsewhere and “do their own thing”.
FB and YT are a “honey pot” and “kindergarten” where naughty dissidents play under adult supervision and have their computers infected with NSA malware when they log on.Like the Bolsheviks in post revolutionary Russia – Israel lets wannabe dissidents play, meet, chat and connect. Then, when the hammer comes down they clean them up in one go.
The lions at the NSA/Israel do not want the water hole fenced off. They want to see which gazelles are coming in to drink.
If people really understood what was happening when they went online and especially when they logged onto a Google service they would be horrified.
There are things you can do but it is very tiring to learn.
So, carry on regardless and hope for the best.
The perpetual Israeli crimes against the Palestinians are numbered.
@#2,
I am suspicious of you.
I am cautious of all that revel in killing others more
than they do defending themselves and their justified cause.
ISIS does the same as you. Israel does the same as
you.
You identify Ashkenazi and American Jews only.
True,”Jews can’t take casualties, therefore are afraid of fighting
real men.”
It now appears that Putin is providing a way for the indigenous
Arabs to defend themselves. God willing, he will incorporate a
coalition of indigenous to strategically and politically surround this Judaic monster
(Converts or not) that has haunted this world for thousands of years now.
I would rather watch a Jew live in his own pity than to watch him die
in his own pride.
This is the shame that I wish upon the Jews. Not that he dies at our hands
not knowing the shame of his existence.
I wish that the Jew lives, and see the rest of the world peaceful and happy
because we overcame this cancer that they inflicted on our world body.
I want these monster Jews to see this.
I want to see the shame in their eyes when we look down upon them.
I want the Palestinians to see for themselves what God said.
“I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but
are the synagogue of Satan.
Fear none of those things which thou shall suffer; behold,the devil shall cast
some of you into prison, that ye may be tried;–be thou faithful unto death,
and I will give thee the crown of life.” Rev 2-9,10.
All of my friends are Arabs. Regardless of them being Christian or Muslim,
I have never once heard they wanted to kill Jews or anyone else.
I have heard them tell me that these people are the devil.
All of the evidence that I have seen tells me they are correct.
I want to see the Jews to see the whole world looking at them with
this final judgement with Palestinians and their cousins sitting in the front
of that courtroom.
I want to see Jewish shame. I have never seen this sort of humanity from
them in my whole life.
Todd Raine #5: “I wish that the Jew lives, and see the rest of the world peaceful and happy
because we overcame this cancer that they inflicted on our world body.”
May your compassionate conscience lead by example.
Bob Smith #3: “The lions at the NSA/Israel do not want the water hole fenced off. They want to see which gazelles are coming in to drink.”
Beautifully expressed.
“So, carry on regardless and hope for the best.”
Yes, and may the number of us gazelles grow ever larger.