Yesterday I posted about YouTube resetting all of my videos to “demonetized”, in what I called the “latest assault on Israellycool.”
That was before this happened:
My account now has two strikes against it – both of which I have appealed. They are against videos I uploaded in 2014 to expose Hamas hatred and terrorism, not condone it. This is obvious from the context, not just of the video descriptions, but of my entire YouTube account.
Even if after all of these years, YouTube has decided to crack down on any videos showing violence or terrorism (even though they do not seem to be cracking down on antisemitic videos, for example), it seems patently unfair to threaten a “three strikes and you’re out” rule, especially given I have appealed the strikes, and especially given the reason I uploaded the videos to begin with. It makes me think YouTube actually wants to eject pro-Israel channels like mine.
I now stand to lose over 180 videos with combined views of over 1.2 million, uploaded over the course of over 11 years. The lost advertising revenue is not even the main issue here; it is the loss of all the hard work and the resulting broken posts in my blog this will cause.
There is nothing we can do now except wait and see – no time to download all the videos and upload all of them on to another platform. In the meantime, please support Israellycool by clicking on the Donate or Subscribe button below or via Patreon.
