Update: They have since pulled the video and claimed they were not pushing it. Read why I think they are lying.
The palestinian Ma’an News agency – which I have written about on here before way too many times to mention – has been featuring this music video in Hebrew – clearly aimed as a threat at Israelis.
https://youtu.be/bP6M7pR0kNc
Update: Here is a version taken from another YouTube channel
https://youtu.be/zPKEpDkVleE
Note the video is even hosted on Ma’an’s YouTube channel (with which YouTube does not, at least for now, seem to have a problem – unlike videos of pro-Israel people like me)
While I saw it on their Arabic site, I have not seen it appear on their English site – which may mean they do not want this to reach an English-speaking, international audience. This could be related to their funding sources, which I have written about before.
- According to its 2014 financial statement, received funding from Denmark, Sweden, United States, Catholic Relief Services, Save the Children, and others. 2014 total revenue of $2,318,646 (accessed October 19, 2015).
- According to its website, “MNA was launched with generous funding from the Danish Representative Office to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Netherlands Representative Office to the PA.”
- Received a 2014 project grant of $56,000 from the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat (joint funding from Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark and the Netherlands).
- Received a 2011 grant of €288,290 from the EU, under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) framework, for a project, aimed at “improving press freedom, access to information and awareness of human rights issues in the oPt.”
- Previously received funding from the Netherlands, UK, EU, US, UNESCO, UNDP, and the Arab Human Rights Fund.
We need to make a huge stink about this to these funding sources. Spreading this post far and sundry will be a good start.
