YouTube pull video showing Israeli Border Police thug kicking a woman protestor on the ground

international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report

Sunday May 16, 2010 18:29

by TD - Free Palestine Campaign

Please lodge a complaint on the sanitizing and censoring of IOF thuggery to Youtube

The weeky protests in Nabi Saleh have quickly gained a reputation as the most violent of the West Bank demonstrations, last Friday's proved true to the norm where an arrested Israeli woman was repeatedly kicked and savaged on the ground by a Border Police thug and the villagers were subjected to blizzards of tear gas and live fire. This morning YouTube pulled the video (Nabi Saleh protest 14-05-2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL3MOCi5JRU) showing the savage assault on the Israeli Anarchist Against the Wall activist on the weasel basis that: This video or group may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube's user community. To view this video or group, please verify that you are 18 or older by signing in or signing up.

Two of YouTube's "user community" who were probably instrumental in this overt censorship of Israeli Occupation Forces savagery in the West Bank are of the view that: (7097672) What can I say, If they where Palestinian soldiers, she probably would have been raped. (nimo888) that woman works (yes she gets; money) for the fascist regime of Islam. why wont she go to Syria to protest against there crimes? is she scared from the regime she is pushing Israel to? .

However, the good news is that the video can be viewed on a number of other websites, for instance
http://vodpod.com/watch/3616081-resisting-the-oppressiv...0-wmv

Located 30 kilometers northeast of Ramallah along highway 465, the hilltop village of An Nabi Saleh has a population of approximately 500 residents The demonstrations protest the illegal seizure of valuable agricultural land and the uprooting in January 2010 of hundreds of the village residents olive trees by the Halamish (Neve Zuf) settlement located opposite An Nabi Saleh. Conflict between the settlement and villagers reawakened in January 2010 due to the settlers attempt to re-annex An Nabi Saleh land despite an Israeli court decision in December 2009 that awarded the property rights of the land to the An Nabi Saleh residents. The confiscated land of An Nabi Saleh is located on the Halamish side of Highway 465 and is just one of many expansions of the illegal settlement since its establishment in 1977 http://palsolidarity.org/2010/03/11907 Near the village is a natural spring named Ein Al Kus ("the Bow Spring"). In 2009 settlers from the nearby settlement of Halamish took control over the spring and it's surroundings while preventing Palestinian access to it. Subsequently, people of Nabi Salih and the nearby village of Dir Nizam began regular friday protests for the spring which they claim as their own, and against the Israeli occupation in general http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabi_Salih

Please lodge a complaint on the censoring and sanitizing of IOF thuggery to Youtube.