Max Blumenthal writes: "On May 27, journalist Jesse Rosenfeld and I set out on the streets of Tel Aviv to probe the political opinions of young local residents. We started the day filming a group of Jewish and Palestinian Israeli students protested a proposed law that would criminalize public observance of the Nakba, or the mass expulsion and killing of Palestinians by Zionist militias in 1948. There, we interviewed Palestinian Israeli students about the rising climate of repression, then spoke to another group of students who gathered nearby to heckle their Arab classmates and demand their deportation. A few hundred meters away, two genial business students expressed support for the so-called Nakba law, remarking to us, 'If you want to keep democracy, you can’t let people protest against the independence of the country.'

"That evening, we took our camera to central Tel Aviv, where thousands were taking part in an annual all night festival. Some revelers took an intermission from the partying to express to us their hatred for the Iranian people. And a group of teenagers launched into a virtually unprompted diatribe against Barack Obama, referring to him as a Nazi, a Muslim, and a 'Cushi,' which is Hebrew slang for 'nigger.' When questioned about the source of his opinions, one teenager proudly declared himself a 'gezan,' or a racist.

"This video, entitled Feeling the Hate in Tel Aviv, is the sequel to a piece the Israeli blogger Joseph Dana and I released in June called Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem. That video, which featured a cast of mostly American Jews in Jerusalem leveling racist vitriol at Obama, stirred immediate controversy, prompting the Huffington Post to remove it on the grounds that it was not 'newsworthy.' As the 'not newsworthy' video began climbing towards 400,000 hits on YouTube, YouTube and Vimeo banned it without explanation and without offering me any legal recourse."

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