Apparently YouTube will allow anything to be posted, even copyrighted material, but a video showing drunken American-Israelis spewing bigotry is too much for the video-sharing site.

Max Blumenthal’s now famous video of American-Israelis in Jerusalem the night before Obama’s speech in Cairo captured immediate attention as a reflection of crude behavior of many of Israel’s American supporters. Blumenthal, himself an American Jews, said the video represented the indoctrination that many American Jews experience in relation to Israel and that he saw visit hand as a visitor to Israel in 2002 as part of the BirthRight program [many of those in the video are on the same program]. Judge for yourself:

Feeling The Hate In Jerusalem — The Censored Video from Max Blumenthal on Vimeo.

Blumenthal’s co-produced video immediately become a hit on YouTube with over 400,000 hits. This is supposed to be what YouTube is all about, allowing people to broadcast videos to the world. But, as is predictable, pro-Israel groups must always censor information critical of Israel and pressured YouTube to remove the video. Instead of standing up for freedom in the age of the internet and video-sharing, YouTube caved in to Zionist hoodlums.

A campaign must be made to re-post the Blumenthal video [which was also banned on the liberal Huffington Post site].

Jewish Voice for Peace has started that effort:

YouTube has just announced that it is relaxing some of its guidelines so that videos showing the current events in Iran may be posted. I am asking you to draw upon that same commitment to supporting human rights by returning Max Blumenthal’s video and any other similar ones to your site. The extreme views represented in these videos need to be heard and acknowledged so that they can be overcome. Making the videos disappear doesn’t make the hateful views expressed in the video disappear, too.

YouTube should be an open site for all, not some clearing board for Zionism.