YouTube has been accused of allowing anti-Semitic content - including videos calling Jews “pigs” - by a former moderator turned whistleblower.

Khaled Hassan, 31, was a moderator for the online video platform and was employed until two months ago to identify extremism in Arabic language videos. However, he has quit his role and spoken out to accuse YouTube’s policy of removing extreme content of being a “sham” and accused the company of “shirking its legal and moral responsibilities”.

Mr Hassan alleges that:

• YouTube ignored warnings that specific videos would incite violence against Jews, just weeks before Malik Faisal Akram, the British terrorist, watched the same clips and took four hostages at Beth Israel synagogue in Texas.
• YouTube ignored requests to remove videos by Wagdy Ghoneim, an Egyptian jihadist who is banned in the UK, on the grounds that he was not on an internal watchlist of just 29 names.
• He was also told that when he wished to “flag” any video about the Middle East conflict, he should seek approval from a Palestinian colleague.
• The whistleblower was moved to a more menial job because, he claimed, he highlighted videos that YouTube did not want to remove.

Among the YouTube videos that triggered Mr Hassan’s concerns are dozens in which late Pakistani preacher, Israr Ahmad, spouts anti-Semitism, with titles such as “New World Order, Jew World Order”. The videos call Jews “this cursed race”, “the ultimate source of evil” and “the biggest agents of Satan”....

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