AN EVEN MORE UP-TO-DATE UPDATE: Aqsatube is down again. Reuven Erlich of the Terrorism Information Center tells me “they seem to be having trouble, we might be making their lives harder.”

Watch this space.

UPDATE: AqsaTube is back online; and has found a new service provider

The full report from the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center is here.

ITIC:

Its renewed appearance was enabled by the support of a Russian Internet company called 2X4.ru network , after it had been dropped by the French company OVH following a BBC News query. This is not the first time Russian companies have provided technical services for Hamas websites.

Here’s the original story from last week:

Just got word that AqsaTube has been taken offline by its French service provider OVH.

After my story was published in yesterday’s paper, it was picked up by various news outlets worldwide, including SKY News.

After I asked Google for a response to the story, they took their AdSense program off AqsaTube. Continue reading →