by Jessica Corbett, The Anti Media:

After the New York Times on Thursday published an exposé of Facebook‘s global censorship rulebook, journalist Rania Khalek called out the social media giant for taking down a video in which she explains how, “on top of being occupied, colonized territory, Palestine is Israel’s personal laboratory for testing, refining, and showcasing methods and weapons of domination and control.”

Tweeting out the Times report—and noting that while, according to the newspaper, “moderators were told to hunt down and remove rumors wrongly accusing an Israeli soldier of killing a Palestinian medic,” Israeli soldiers did fatally shoot an unarmed 21-year-old female paramedic earlier this year—she announced Friday morning that Facebook had “just removed” her video.

Speaking of Facebook censoring content on Israel’s behalf, they just removed a video I made about how Israel uses Palestine as weapons laboratory.

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) 28 December 2018

Here is my video on how Israel uses Palestine as a weapons testing laboratory, which Facebook erased without explanation. https://t.co/kT6YvZpVPj

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) 28 December 2018

After she and other prominent reporters issued public complaints, Khalek announced a couple hours later that Facebook had restored the video. “Still this is a good reminder that at the moment these social media giants have the ability to disappear content as they please,” she said in a tweet. “It’s creepy and alarming and should be loudly opposed.”

After some complaints, the video is back up in Facebook. https://t.co/wdZjBQyAqC

Still this is a good reminder that at the moment these social media giants have the ability to disappear content as they please. It’s creepy and alarming and should be loudly opposed

— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) 28 December 2018

Among those who highlighted Facebook’s censorship of Khalek’s video on Friday were Ben Norton of The Real News Network—who called it an “excellent, informative video report”—and The Intercept‘s Glenn Greenwald, who pointed out that the platform has been silencing Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices for more than a year.

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