FB blocks NYC subway video that called for anti-Maersk protests over Gaza genocide

A video of pro-Palestinian activists speaking out against the ongoing US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, recorded inside a New York City subway, was blocked by Facebook.

The video, shared by US-based independent journalist and author Sam Husseini on his social media platforms, including Meta-owned Facebook, was posted on Thursday.

"I just happened to be on the NYC subway, and this happened," Husseini wrote, sharing the video he filmed while traveling on the subway.

The footage featured a young pro-Palestinian female activist urging fellow passengers to raise their voices against the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, and the US complicity in it.

The activist, affiliated with the Palestinian Youth Movement, distributed posters that read "Mask Off Maersk picket," referring to Maersk as a "profiteer of the genocide in Gaza."

The Palestinian Youth Movement is a transnational, independent grassroots organization of young Palestinians and Arabs dedicated to the liberation of the occupied Palestinian territories.

The movement has been leading an arms embargo campaign titled "Mask Off Maersk," first announced in June 2024. This campaign targets Maersk, the world’s largest logistics and shipping company.

Maersk has been involved in supplying weapons and weapon components used by the Israeli regime in its genocidal war against Gaza, which has claimed more than 40,000 lives since October 7, 2023.

According to media reports, the Copenhagen-headquartered company has, since October 7 of last year, shipped over $300 million worth of weapon components from around the world, including Europe, to U.S. arms manufacturers for the Israeli regime.

"This accounts for a full quarter of known U.S. shipments to Northrop Grumman, Woodward, RTX/Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin since the beginning of the current genocide in Gaza," the Mondoweiss website reported in June.

"With 68% of weapon sales to Israel coming from the U.S., Maersk is integral to the global flow of arms that sustains the Israeli occupation forces' current bombardment and ground operations in Gaza."

In an update to his previous post on Saturday, two days after sharing the video on social media, Husseini stated that Facebook had blocked it, citing a "copyright claim."

"When I realized that was the alleged reason, I immediately disputed the block. I asked a series of questions. I have received no answers, but the video no longer appears to be blocked," he wrote.

"Big Tech wants to know everything about us, but they operate in secrecy, silencing us whenever they want."

In a subsequent post on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday, Husseini noted that Facebook had blocked his video, falsely claiming a copyright violation from Al Ghad TV.

"Some people are asking if false claims of copyright violation could be a form of backdoor political silencing. I don't know. But I did look into Al Ghad TV," he wrote.

"Daily Sabah says Dahlan is the 'owner of Al Ghad TV.' The Electronic Intifada has called Muhammad Dahlan 'a warlord supported by the United Arab Emirates.'"

He shared newspaper clippings indicating that Dahlan, a "warlord supported by the United Arab Emirates," was involved in a US-backed plot that sparked a deadly civil war in Gaza in 2007.

At the time, then-U.S. President George Bush referred to Dahlan as "our guy."

This incident marks yet another instance of social media giants censoring content critical of the Israeli regime and its war against Palestinians in Gaza, using weapons manufactured in and shipped by the US.

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