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

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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.

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"also beaten in the car while in custody, and had her head bleeding"

by TD - FPC

Sun May 16, 2010 20:10

The Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall website is reporting that: the protester who was dragged was also beaten in the car while in custody, and had her head bleeding.

info for the clueless

by r2d2

Sun May 16, 2010 20:28

Youtube is owned by Google.

Google was founded by two self-admitted Zionists, Larry Page & Sergey Brin,

recently Google sought and received a massive injection of investment capital.

at least half of the current board of directors is comprised of people known to be very pro-zionist

http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html

Board of Directors
* Eric Schmidt, Google Inc.
* Sergey Brin, Google Inc.
* Larry Page, Google Inc.
* John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
* Ram Shriram, Sherpalo
* John Hennessy, Stanford University
* Paul Otellini, Intel
* Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton University
* Ann Mather

don't expect anything like even-handedness from Google/Youtube when it comes to the subject of Zionist cruelty

Noam Chomsky denied entry into Israel and West Bank

by Mairead Hynes

Sun May 16, 2010 21:42

Following hard on the censorship of the video is the banning of Noam Chomsky from speaking in the West Bank University of Bir Zeit. Haaretz is reporting that: In a telephone interview with Channel 10, Chomsky said the interrogators had told him he had written things that the Israeli government did not like. "I suggested [the interrogator try to] find any government in the world that likes anything I say," he said ... His Palestinian host, lawmaker Mustafa al-Barghouti called the decision "a fascist action, amounting to suppression of freedom of expression." The Association for Civil Rights in Israel slammed the Interior Ministry for "using detention and deportation to prevent a man from expressing his opinion", calling it "characteristic of a totalitarian regime." "A democratic country where freedom of expression is a guiding principle does not close in the face of criticism or ideas that are not comfortable and does not deny entry to guests only because it does not accept their opinions. Instead, it deals with these opinions through public discussion," said ACRI in a statement.

Fair Play Tommy!

by Jewel

Mon May 17, 2010 00:32

In fairness Tommy its about time you upped you game anyway. There are plenty of sites like youtube that allow you to upload video. Use your head mate!!!

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

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