A month after Hamas militants from Gaza attacked an Israeli music festival last October, the Hebrew rap duo Ness & Stilla premiered “HarbuDarbu” on YouTube. The military hype song celebrates Israeli forces waging war in Gaza and has drawn over 25 million views; its critics have termed the song a violent and hateful anti-Palestinian “genocide anthem.” “One, two, shoot!” its refrain thunders.
Despite demands from employees and activists for its removal, “HarbuDarbu” has been allowed to stay up on YouTube. Crucially, YouTube determined that the song’s violent rhetoric targets Hamas, not Palestinians as a whole, and that as a US-labeled terrorist organization Hamas can be subject to hate speech without penalty, according to three people involved in or briefed on content moderation work at YouTube but not authorized to discuss it.
Employees who want the video removed say it should count as hate speech because, they contend, the lyrics urge violence against all Palestinians by mentioning Amalek, a Biblical term used throughout history to describe Israel’s enemies.
Why is it when anyone criticizes Hamas, they’re accused of criticizing Palestinians?
From what it sounds like, the song isn’t “criticizing hamas”, it’s celebrating the mass murder and systematic starvation of an entire ethnic group of people. That’s fucked up. If isreal wasn’t systematically starving an ethnic group to death and systematically murdering journalists and people providing aid, there wouldn’t be much upset about isreal waging war against hamas, because then it would actually be war against hamas and not genocide of the palestinian people.
I just watched the video because from reading OP’s post I was also confused about this - it’s 100% okay to criticize Hamas, but IMO the post didn’t do a great job at explaining why it feels like it’s actually targeting Palestinians as a whole.
They repeat several times throughout the video lyrics about Palestinian freedom. I think that’s the biggest reason I agree it should be removed. If they’d kept it very specific to Hamas and only talked about all the horrific stuff they’re doing, then that’s one thing. But it seems like they’re very focused on just general “Palestinian freedom” stuff, or at least they included it, which means that’s what it’s actually about.
I guess YouTube is ok with condoning genocide then because the Israeli government sure as hell is not making any distinctions between Hamas and regular Palestinians.
Unfortunately and sadly doesn’t surprise me anymore. All big platforms (Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, Pinterest and such) are allowing hateful stuff towards Palestinian people.
However when someone criticizes Israel government and their genocide. Your comment, video or anything else gets removed within A day. Even if it is not even related to the entire thing.
I have a Pinterest account and have a Palestinian board and it got twice removed for “hate speech” while it shows nothing of hate. Merely Palestinian things such as flags, clothes, people and such.
It’s pretty obvious that social media as a whole is just a corrupt mess.
Unfortunately and sadly doesn’t surprise me anymore.
It shouldn’t surprise you at all. Any notion of “Free Speech” on Internet Platforms was shot in the head during the Trump Presidency and then the corpse was burned at the stake during the Pandemic. There were vast quantities of myopic morons making the arguments “These are private companies, they can do what they want!” along with “You have no right to speech on someone else’s platform!” simply because they approved of what was being done.
Now the arguments being used by 2017-2022 MAGAtards are being shouted by 2023-2024 Liberals / Progressives.
It’s pretty obvious that social media as a whole is just a corrupt mess.
It’s pretty obvious that people are perfectly happy with restrictions on the other person but never themselves.
People forget that the restrictions they hammer the other person with today are going to be used against them tomorrow. Plan accordingly.
There was a u.s law passed just a few months ago that makes it illegal in the u.s to talk against Israel.
There are allot of sentences stating what could be antisemitic but it’s not limited to those, and theirs a specific definition it tells people to look at.
However, there are many reasons that add up to why the video may had been removed. I personally don’t think there was exclusively just one specific one reason for the videos removal but a atleast a couple of leading factors.
Some examples of what might add up to why it was removed could be,
- various countries just this past year introduced various hate speech laws,
2)many countries concluded together and have a more united focus on tackling hateful speech. Trying to keep the world at a peaceful state, especially for minority groups that need these protections.
There are a few others I can’t think of right this second. but all these reasons add up to the final decision for the moderation action of the video takedown.
Google and spytube both always had pro israel bias as pretty much any US business.
In fact, they are kinda required by the US Law.
