Haviv Rettig Gur
Wikipedia has fallen to the new religion. The only story of Zionism you can get on there is the one its ideological enemies tell. The millions of people who turned to it to avoid their extermination, who were saved by it after being ethnically cleansed elsewhere, are silenced and invisible on the world’s fifth-largest website. Instead of a history of Zionism, Wikipedia now offers only ideological screeds against it. Instead of teaching you that history is layered and complex because humans are layered and complex, it teaches you that the world is divided between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. The Jews are the darkness.
Pirate Wires
NEW WIKIPEDIA INVESTIGATION: How Wikipedia’s Pro-Hamas Editors Hijacked the Israel-Palestine Narrative • A seemingly coordinated campaign led by around 40 Wikipedia editors has worked to delegitimize Israel, present radical Islamist groups in a favorable light, and position fringe academic views on the Israel-Palestine conflict as mainstream over past years, intensifying after the October 7 attack • Six weeks after October 7, one of these editors successfully removed mention of Hamas’ 1988 charter, which calls for the killing of Jews and the destruction of Israel, from the article on Hamas • The group also appeared to attempt to promote the interests of the Iranian government across a number of articles, including deleting “huge amounts of documented human rights crimes by [Islamic Republic Party] officials” • A group called Tech For Palestine launched a separate but complementary campaign after October 7, which violated Wikipedia policies by coordinating to edit Israel-Palestine articles on the group 8,000 member Discord • Tech For Palestine abandoned its efforts and sent its members into a panic after a blog discovered what they were doing; the group deleted all its Wiki Talk pages and Sandboxes they had been using to coordinate their editing efforts, and the main editor deleted all her chats from the group’s Discord channel Read the full story by @AshleyRindsberg on Pirate Wires today 👇
