Posts Tagged ‘internet’
French internet firm takes down AqsaTube
AqsaTube, the Hamas website for sharing jihadist videos, was taken down after a Jerusalem Post report revealed it was hosted by French internet company OVH.
AqsaTube (www.aqsatube.com) featured videos inciting against Israel, glorifying terrorism (the “resistance”) and preaching the doctrines of radical Islam.
According to the BBC, OVH initially denied hosting AqsaTube, but later confirmed that the website had been hosted by them and had now been taken offline.
The disappearance of AqsaTube follows Google’s removal of their AdSense program from the website following a request filed by the Post to Google Israel.
The Post really took those guys to the cleaners. Good for them.
We initially linked to the story on the Forecast Highs blog, a blog belonging to the paper’s news editor Amir Mizroch.
Hamas releases AqsaTube
The starving, imploding, besieged Gaza Strip apparently still has some funds left over for a sophisticated jihadist video-sharing website. Announcing: AqsaTube!
The Forecast Highs blog reports:
According to the Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, the Hamas site, however, is devoted entirely to propaganda and incitement. Its contents, like those of other Hamas websites, are a reflection of its ideology and strategy. They include videos inciting against Israel , glorifying terrorism (the “resistance”) and preaching the doctrines of radical Islam. There is also a link to Hamas’s satellite channel, Al-Aqsa TV, which increases the number of its viewers and enables it to bypass restrictions on its broadcasts, according to the ITIC, a think-tank closely associated with Israel’s intelligence community based in Ramat Hasharon.
It’s also a money-maker, thanks to Google AdSense. The good news is that the site is hosted by French Internet firm OVH, so there may be room here for outside pressure.
