To keep the tens of thousands of TikTok videos covering the genocide in Gaza from being removed by the Censorship Industrial Complex, a new website called TikTokGenocide.com is tracking and backing them all up in multiple locations so they will never, save for a global EMP, disappear down the memory hole.
The X / Twitter account "Zionism Observer" (@receipts_lol) announced on November 24 that it had just uploaded and backed up its 10,000th Gaza video from TikTok. As of this writing, another 121 Gaza videos from TikTok are now available for viewing at TikTokGenocide.com.
"Our archivists developed a unique set of categories for the genocide in Gaza," Zionism Observer tweeted, pointing out categories that include:
• Abducting children
• Abducting women
• Abducting bodies
• Advertising
• Ambulance graveyard
• Ambush
• Animal abuse
• Antisemitism
• Apartheid
• Appeals
• Arrest
• Baby
• Bakery
• Beatings
• Beheaded
• Bible
• Blocking aid
• Blocking ambulances
• Boat shooting
• Books
• Ceasefire
• Cemetery
• Checkpoints
• Children's things
... and more.
"You can also filter the videos by location," Zionism Observer further tweeted.
(Related: Arguably the biggest reason why the political establishment wants to ban TikTok is because too many people are trying to tell the truth there in compelling video format.)
Archiving war crimes
Amazingly, many of the videos archived at TikTokGenocide.com are geo-located, meaning each one contains data including specific coordinates that tell where it was captured in the war zones of the Middle East.
"Videos are also categorized by the target Israel was attacking, such as: aid workers, children, agriculture, etc.," Zionism Observer says.
"Videos are also categorized by the weapons the Israelis were using against their targets."
Time was taken to carefully identify the specific Israeli military units depicted in the individual footage. Many of those units have been identified and categorized for inclusion as a filter option at TikTokGenocide.com.
"Each video includes the original social media post, as well as a link to the source. We write detailed archivist notes for many of the videos. We attempt to preserve the names of martyrs in each attack, because every life is an entire world."
An example "Archivist Note" shared by Zionism Observer concerns the Khalid ibn al-Walid school that was targeted by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in Camp 2 in Nuseirat, central Gaza. Israel specifically targeted the school's mosque, according to a source whose testimony was confirmed by a survivor of the attack.
"Seven people were killed, including three women, one child, and one infant," the note further reads. "The school was previously bombed on September 23, killing four people at midnight. The four victims were also from the Aql family."
Parts of TikTokGenocide.com are also linked to GazaMaps.com, which tracks forced displacement in the Middle East. Some of TikTokGenocide.com's videos are integrated with data at GazaMaps.com, tying specific footage with specific forced displacement events.
Concerning the growing number of journalists and media workers who are dying at the hands of the IDF, TikTokGenocide.com is keeping track of their names, too. Many of these "martyrs," as Zionism Observer calls them, have links attacked to their names that point to video footage depicting each individual killing.
"The database is StopMurderingJournalists.com, updated every time Israel murders a journalist (on average, every 2 days)," Zionism Observer says.
"Israel is the worst killer of journalists in the world, and media 'protection' watchdogs like @CPJMENA (Committee to Protect Journalists) run cover for Israel, so we had to build this database."
Zionism Observer also runs another archival project called Zionism.observer that tracks and archives quotes from Israeli leaders and public figures. Right now, that database contains about 500 archived quotes.
More of the latest news about social media censorship of the genocide in Gaza can be found at Censorship.news.
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