The silent online erasure of Israel’s war crimes

YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

“The move came in response to a U.S. government campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank,” reports the Intercept. Meanwhile Google, which owns YouTube, has been given a $45m contract by the Israeli government to amplify its talking points.

Israel bribes Google with $45m to place positive stories about Israel high on google searches…

Google under fire for $45m deal with Netanyahu’s office to spread Gaza genocide propaganda

Google signed a $45 million contract with the Israeli prime minister’s office to run a global digital advertising campaign promoting Israeli state messaging during its ongoing genocide in Gaza. The contract, first reported by Drop Site News, includes advertisements placed on YouTube and through Google’s Display & Video 360 platform, explicitly described in government documents as part of Israel’s propaganda war. 

Signed in June 2025, the contract with Google—covering YouTube and Display & Video 360, the company’s digital ad service—authorised an extensive propaganda campaign labelled explicitly as hasbara, a Hebrew term denoting state-backed propaganda, often deployed to whitewash Israeli military actions. 

The campaign was launched as international condemnation grew over Israel’s decision to cut off all food, fuel and humanitarian supplies to Gaza on 2 March, triggering what UN agencies describe as a man-made famine.

One of the most widely viewed outputs of the campaign was a YouTube video by Israel’s foreign ministry, falsely claiming, “There is food in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie.” The ad was viewed over 6 million times, heavily boosted through paid promotion under the government contract. 

…Israel are committing a genocide and are paying Google to hide that fact.

This is what we are dealing with as human beings of conscience, this is how evil Israel have  mutated into.

Any criticism of the terrible violence Israel has indulged in is considered ‘anti-semitic’ and justifies being removed.

Those who howl their justifications of this Zionism are never prepared to acknowledge the censorship required to keep their lie alive.

Where is the Free Speech Union?

 

 

 

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