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| DATE | 2021-01-01 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Troubles with wikipedia
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https://david-collier.com/wiki-antisemitic/
Wikipedia is a war zone filled with anti-semetic content. They will
squash any Jewish content relating to Israel. I once mede an attempt to
work on the Hebron pages and ended up being kicked out.
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Exclusive – Project Wiki – how Wikipedia is breeding armies of antisemites
December 31, 2020 David
Tell people that Wiki is a problem when it comes to antisemitism or
historical revisionism and they will most likely brush you off. You will
hear stock responses that range from ‘everyone knows that about
Wikipedia‘ or ‘I only use it as a guide‘ to the more expertly
constructed excuse that ‘most people understand it isn’t 100% accurate,
but it is a good starting point to gather further sources‘. Sometimes
they’ll acknowledge Wiki is a minor problem but claim it ‘does its best’
in the circumstances and suggest it has far too many benefits to give up.
I think these attitudes grossly understate the danger Wiki poses and the
damage it has already done. Far too many people are still making
donations to a platform that has long since turned from ‘doing its best’
into a manipulated monster that breeds ill-will towards Jewish people.
To those that say Wiki isn’t a serious problem
BBC watch, Honest Reporting, UK Media Watch, Camera – these are all
organisations set up to tackle misinformation – in the understanding
that bias or non-factual articles in newspapers influence readers. CIF
Watch was originally set up just to monitor the Guardian. How many
readers did the Guardian have?
Wiki is the 13th most visited website in the world. If you search for a
term online, the most visited website in the world, Google, will *almost
always* put the Wiki entry in top spot. Whether we like to admit it or
not – Wiki is probably one of the greatest influencers in the world.
Everyone knows media outlets such as the Sun and Daily Mail are full of
inaccuracy – but would anyone in their right mind suggest that they do
not influence people? What is written in Wikipedia matters. You can
dismiss it all you like, but I promise you, more people in the west will
have their opinion shaped today by the words of Wiki than any other
source on the planet.
Read what Wikipedia says about itself:
“Wikipedia is not a reliable source for academic writing or research.
Wikipedia is increasingly used by people in the academic community, from
freshman students to distinguished professorship, as an easily
accessible tertiary source for information about anything and
everything, and as a quick “ready reference”, to get a sense of a
concept or idea.”
As one of the most popular websites on the planet, Wiki is therefore a
builder and protector of paradigms. Even amongst those who won’t use it
as a primary source, there is a growing habit of turning to it as a
collector of further resource material. This holds true for academia
too. Thus – if you are in its pages – you are part of the conversation –
if not – you are left outside of the normative paradigm.
The damage it can do
Bad references, or sources on the issue of the Titanic, may be a
catalyst for sloppy articles elsewhere, but they probably won’t lead to
anyone financing terrorist groups or joining racist movements. But when
it comes to issues that matter – Wiki is a clear and present danger.
Given what can be found on its pages, Twitter and Facebook should carry
a disputed warning on any Wiki article linked to their platforms.
Wikipedia possesses its own Overton window, but this fluctuates
according to subject matter. How bad can it be? Here are some examples
of the massive brainwashing / disinformation campaign that is taking place:
The skewing of history – the example of Nebi Musa
The Nebi Musa riot was an anti-Jewish riot, perpetrated by Arabs that
took place in April 1920 in Jerusalem.
Wikipedia’s Nebi Musa page reads like an apology for public violence and
murder. At no point in the page is it clearly stated this was an
anti-Jewish riot. It is unlikely that anyone reading the page will
understand what happened on that day. Rather than talk about the
violence and murders, Wiki spends time focusing on ‘Zionist
provocation’. One of the key sources even goes as far as suggesting one
provocation included a group of ‘Zionists’ who were ‘listening to
speeches.’ The entire thing is based on nothing but deflection and
assumption. In the introduction paragraph, there is this explanation for
the outburst of violence.
“The trigger which turned the procession into a riot is not known with
certainty – some evidence exists suggesting Jewish provocation, but it
is also possible, though unreported, that Arab activities also contributed.”
Which is basically just rumour mongering without any support. The source
for that quote is Ulrike Freitag – a professor of Islamic Studies.
Freitag who has the Israel hostile SOAS University on her CV, has
publicly supported the BDS campaign.
Anyone reading Wiki’s entry as a landing page for further investigation
will be injected with ahistorical, anti-Zionist poppycock before they
begin proper study. If all they wanted was a brief outline, they will be
given only a false anti-Zionist position. As these events are the
building blocks of the 100-year-old conflict, this type of brainwashing
is extremely damaging.
How does it happen? In the original page from 2012, the word
‘provocation’ is nowhere to be seen. The original introduction clearly
tells of ‘a serious outbreak of violence against the city’s Jews’. That
all changed on July 5 2016. A single user removed the mention of an
attack against the city Jews *as well* as inserting the allegation
about Jewish ‘provocation.’ The user, ‘Onceinawhile‘, has been active
on Wiki since 2010.
The first actions of ‘Onceinawhile‘ were on the Jerusalem page – where
the user inserted a graphic that minimises the Jewish timeline in
Jerusalem – by hiding it under Babylonian and Persian control. Within
months he had opened a Wiki page titled ‘Criticism of the Israeli
government’. Shortly after this he tried to have Christian and Muslim
usage of the ‘Star of David’ incorporated into the history of the Star
of David Wiki page.
Other early edits include adding ‘Israel’ to the Wiki page on ethnocracy
– placing it first on the list. A page which hadn’t previously included
Israel at all suddenly posits that it is the ‘key example’ of the term.
Going through his highly active stream soon highlights that this is a
pro-Palestinian activist, which then raises the question of whether the
deletion of the mention of violence against Jews on the Nebi Musa page
was accidental or deliberate. This is a great example of the way Wiki is
being manipulated by those who are clearly biased against Israel.
Or is someone really going to argue that the person who this year
created the Wiki page on West Bank Bantustans, just accidently deleted
comments about anti-Jewish riots on the Nebi Musa page?
A few other edits –
In the page on the 1929 Palestine ‘riots’ (if this was the other way
around – the page would definitely be titled ‘massacre’). ‘Onceinawhile‘
repeats the Nebi Musa exercise. He firstly changes the phrase “assembled
at the wall” to the more aggressive “marched to the wall”. The given
source is Segev’s ‘One Palestine Complete‘. In the chapter Segev only
uses the term ‘congregated’ (p309) – so it is unclear where the more
aggressive ‘marched’ description comes from. Then ‘Onceinawhile’ inserts
an inane paragraph from the ‘Shaw Report’ – deflecting attention to the
possibility that there were ‘undesirable elements’ in the Jewish crowd.
‘Maybe’ and ‘perhaps’ doesn’t make a fact. Then he inserts several lines
about Jewish provocations / attacks on Arabs and misrepresents the Shaw
Commission source as he does so. Later the same year he returns to the
page to insert extracts from the Shaw Commission report that put the
major blame on the earlier Jewish demonstration. There is no context
given that these British reports were inherently anti-Jewish in
sentiment. The user is grabbing at any archive material or source that
furthers the agenda.
He edited the page of the 1834 Safed looting to add an entire section –
copying in (rather than just giving a source) an almost biblical account
from a Rabbi written 16 years after the event. It is an account that is
clearly exaggerated about the magnanimous way that the Jews were treated
following the attack. This is the constant direction of the edits – on
one hand belittling what happened to the Jews or amplifying Jewish
provocations and on the other using any source available that paints the
Arab side in a better light. In other words – propaganda.
Attempted to smudge the issue of Jesus’s Jewish identity. Little gives
away there is an unhealthy agenda at work here more than this entry.
In 1660 Jews suffered attacks in both Tiberias and Zefat. The user
complained that because the towns are near to each other – and it was
part of the same event, the two pages should be merged (thus reducing
the footprint of attacks on Jews). You can use the same argument about
any battle or any war which affects neighbouring towns. It is an absurd
argument.
Toned down the title of the page for Alexandrian Pogroms to Alexandrian
Riots. The user stated that Google books prefers one to the other – even
though scholars use both. It should be noted that this, the 1834 Safed
looting and the 1660 attacks have nothing to do with Israel and the
Palestinians. All of these edits are aimed at reducing the footprint of
historical Jewish suffering – just as the attack on the identity of
Jesus reduces the footprint of historical Jewish influence.
Edited the page on Palestinians – to include ‘pre-mandate’ Palestinians.
Because of this user there is actually a Wiki page now that claims Jesus
was a Palestinian.
The edits on the page of the 1948 Cairo bombings expose the strategy all
too clearly. ‘Onceinawhile‘ includes a list of the bombing attacks – but
attaches to each a completely arbitrary cause. For example, he states
that the bomb of 22 September occurred 5 days after the assassination of
Count Bernadotte. That may be the case but why on earth have the two
incidents been linked? How on earth can anyone know whether the
assassination was in the mind of the bombers? This need to place cause
to effect on every incident that takes Jewish lives is a consistent
theme of this user’s work on Wikipedia. This user does not want readers
to consume information about Jewish deaths without in some way
implicating other Jews as bearing responsibility for the killings. This
is also a propagandist’s method to deflect attention. The reader, who
came to learn about the Jewish expulsion, is distracted and if they
follow the link – suddenly reading about a completely different incident.
Onceinawhile turned his attention to the Jewish exodus from Arab lands.
He makes two important edits and both somewhat blur the information
below them. In the departure from Egypt he squeezes in mention of the
Lavon Affair, although the 1956 imprisonment and expulsions from Egypt
were not related to this. Then on Iraq he adds information about the
bombing campaign against Jewish targets and the imprisonment of the
‘suspected’ Zionists, linking this campaign to the exodus of 120,000
Iraqis. The idea that a few minor explosions with a low casualty count
would cause the complete upheaval of an entire community is bordering on
the insane. As is the idea that Israel – which was struggling to cope
with the Jews that had arrived, would be agitating for more. It is to
push irresponsible conspiracy theory to even create linkage. His source
for both of these edits were the writings of a Marxist anti-Zionist Jew.
The core of both of these edits still exist on the main Wiki page.
Whilst inserted information about the bombings to create linkage between
those bombs and the exodus of Iraqi Jews – the user edited out content
that linked the Farhud to the exodus – claiming that this linkage was
disputed. What is interesting in this evidence is that it was unsourced
when it was placed. It was just the author’s point of view. Today that
sentence still exists in the Wiki page but now carries three separate
sources. This is how it done. You can always find support for any
comment – but first we saw the unsourced insertion – then someone went
to grab at archives to support the position. Either way it is a
nonsensical argument. There is no way that the Farhud did not unsettle
Iraqi Jews and no way it had been forgotten just ten years later. To
suggest no linkage at all is ahistorical insanity.
He constantly complains about sources that he claims are from ‘right
wing pro-Israeli sources’ such as CAMERA– going on to suggest they are
one-sided. Yet he personally promotes anti-Zionist sources he finds on
websites such as Jews for Justice for Palestinians- pushing these onto
Wikipedia Editors. Or introduces into Wiki pages a rush of Marxist
anti-Zionist Jewish thought that creates a total imbalance in the
suggested reading section.
Edited the Wiki page on the murderous 1945 anti-Jewish riots in Egypt by
adding a single sentence – that the Prime Minister of Egypt blamed the
Zionists for provoking the attacks.
Tried and failed to have the page on the expulsion of Egyptian Jews deleted.
Edited the page on ‘refugees’. This was an interesting edit. The section
on Jewish refugees (which this user edited) is all about how politicised
the argument is, how Israel wanted the refugees and the possibility of
Zionist false flag attacks. The section immediately above it is all
about Palestinian refugees – there is no mention of politicisation and
the focus is almost exclusively (and errantly) on forced expulsion. The
page was eventually cleaned up – but the insertion about politicisation
stuck and is visible on other Wiki Jewish refugee pages (see here).
Created the page about Ben Gurion’s letter to his son in 1937. The page
was weighted to imply that Ben Gurion had stated his intention to expel
the Arabs. Placing the original page alongside the current version
highlights the problem of correcting bias – whilst individual attempts
can be made over time to clean up the entry – the pillar of the page,
the very bias with which it was created, remains intact.
The above are just a few examples. There are 100s of pages that have
been edited. Much of the work of this user has been on the pages of key
landing pages such as ‘Israel’, ‘Palestine’ and on the history of
‘Palestinians’. Onceinawhile has made over 32000 edits on Wikipedia.
The mistake would be in thinking this is an exceptional case.
Yahya Ayyash – the engineer
Yahya Ayyash was the chief bomb maker for Hamas during the early 1990s.
This means that as Israel and the Palestinians engaged in peace talks,
Ayyash was building bombs specifically to kill civilians and destroy the
peace talks. He was responsible for several bus bombings at the time,
including the bus 5 bombing in Dizengoff, a bomb at Hadera bus station,
and others in Ramat Gan and Jerusalem. The man was a murdering terrorist.
I start by presenting how a search for Yahya Ayyash comes up – with the
tags Wiki has attached to him and compare it to how Al Qaeda bomb makers
and leaders are represented:
Only Ayyash is glorified with the tagged title of ‘military leader’.
Moussa – a ‘military leader‘ of Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin is
not tagged but clearly labelled a ‘Jihadist’. al-Asiri, is just
factually labelled a bomb maker for al-Qaeda.
Ayyash is responsible for the death of more than 70 Israelis, yet
Ayyash’s Wiki page humanises him. Readers are not told how many people
he killed but are informed he was “well educated, ambitious, and
soft-spoken”. The page even indirectly blames Israel for his activity by
claiming that he only joined Hamas because Israel blocked an opportunity
for Ayyash to study in Jordan. The source for that nugget is a single
book – a non academic piece that does not seem to hold references on its
pages. It was written by Maxine Rosaler. I contacted the author by
email, to ask for the source of her claim. She has no recollection of
where it came from. The key context – that Ayyash’s activity took place
to disrupt the peace process – is completely missing from the page.
The motivations behind these editors is the key issue here. Why are they
placing information on the page? The wiki page was updated with the new
‘humanising’ source on 27th January 2009. The Editor was a user by the
name of Tiamut. The user’s landing page on Wiki is a poem about Gaza by
Mahmoud Darwish. These make up some of her Wiki bio – a belief in the
Palestinian right of return and more tellingly, a supporter of acts of
terrorism:

It isn’t a question of illegitimate sourcing. If this were a history
book, the argument would be that the author had grabbed at archives,
carefully selecting only material to present the picture that the author
wanted you to see. Wikipedia users can follow the same guidelines. Find
1000s of positive things to say about Palestinians and then insert them
onto Wikipedia’s pages. It is a pure and effective propaganda strategy.
Reading through Tiamut’s many, many, contributions one thing is
absolutely clear – the user is an anti-Israel activist. What she is
doing is helping to shape Wiki in a particular way. The end result – who
wins- is simply down to numbers. How many of each side are there? In a
numbers game that is based on how many hands are active – the Jews
always lose.
Just this one user has made over 30,000 edits on Wikipedia:

As evidence of the degradation of the Wikipedia platform, the 2005
listing for Ayyash was far more factual and clear. Fifteen years of
ideologically driven interference has rendered it an anti-Israel
propaganda piece. Because Wiki does contain a checks and balances system
– this propaganda is so smooth, it fits seamlessly into the page.
Importance of a disappearing sentence
In the early versions of the page on Ayyash, there was a sentence in the
introduction that was precise, factual and necessary. It spoke of the
human cost of his terrorist activity:
“The bombings he orchestrated caused the deaths of approximately 90
Israelis, many of them civilians.”
That information is clearly informative. It is no longer on the page –
nor any reference to the number of people Ayyash’s bombs killed. So what
happened to it? The first edit in December 2007 removed the part that
suggested many of the victims were civilians. That is a deletion which
is clearly political in nature. On the 26th July 2012, a User, ‘Egeymi’
removed the sentence completely. The User suggested he ‘shortened’ the
lead because ‘it included repetition’. Nowhere else on the page was that
information included. Egeymi is one of the most active Editors on
Wikipedia and for whatever reason he completely deleted the human cost
of Ayyash’s actions from the Wiki page. Now all readers are left with
are tales about how ambitious and soft spoken he was.
Israel lobby in the United Kingdom
There is a Wiki page on the Israel lobby in the United Kingdom. There is
however, no page titled ‘PalestinIan lobby in the United Kingdom’ –
which highlights the bias inherent in the platform. Antisemites want a
page about the ‘Israel lobby’ and so one exists. Is the Palestine
Solidarity Campaign with its regular petitions to Parliament not part of
a Palestinian lobby? Or active NGOs such as the Palestine Return Centre?
Or the Central Committee for the BDS movement? How are these not
lobbying agents? Why have only one page? If less than a dozen ‘Friends
of Israel’ groups are troublesome, are dozens of Palestine Solidarity
branches – less troublesome?
The page was created in 2006 by a user called ‘Arthur Warrington
Thomas‘. He has been active on Wikipedia for 14 years and according to
his Wiki page, he lives in Jordan. The motivations of the user were
clear, the few links he provided on the original page include websites
such as David Duke.
Arthur Warrington Thomas appears to be a full blown antisemitic
conspiracy theorist. He has ‘a thing’ for Nazi Mysticism. Looking at his
activity, there seems to be an Islamist link as well. The Israel Lobby
page is not the only current Wiki page started by this antisemitic
conspiracy theorist. He also opened the page on ‘Christian Zionism in
the United Kingdom’. Some of his other edits are predictable. In June of
2009, he added positive comments to the page on Holocaust denier David
Irving. This user created dozens of pages on Wikipedia and made 1000s of
edits.
The page itself – created by someone who appears to be a Holocaust
denying, neo-Nazi, still exists on Wikipedia. It is still a depressing
tale of conspiracy, mixed in with obsessions about Jewish money and
Jewish connections to the State of Israel. The page is of interest to
this research because it uses an article by Jane Jackman as a source:

Although the Wiki page relies on Jackman as a source, she was just a
student. This is interesting as it goes against Wiki’s own standards –
so the talk section of the page proves enlightening. In the talk (which
is a historical record of editorial discussion surrounding the page) the
inclusion of Jackman’s piece is justified:

The argument here is that the piece should be included solely because it
says what these people want it to say. As I proved not long ago, that
Jackman article is a junk piece, full of errors and antisemitic
conspiracy. Yet they have awarded it prime real estate on that Wiki
page. Note the role of the person fighting for truth (BobfromBrockley)
is reduced to negotiating over how much antisemitism should be allowed.
This is the best we can expect.
Just to reaffirm the level of people building pages on Wikipedia, the
person who included Jackman’s article and argued for its inclusion – had
this to say about its relevance:

Which outrageously suggests I am part of the GnasherJew account. This is
the type of antisemitic conspiracy drivel we fight from trolls on
Twitter. The links ZScarpia provides to support the Gnasher Jew
allegation are the usual libellous rants of anonymous bloggers or people
like Tony Greenstein. Unsurprisingly Zscarpia is also out there making
edits to pages about Israel. This user, who relies on people like Tony
Greenstein for material so he can smear the name of Zionist Jews, has a
Wiki career spanning 15 years.
His anti-Israel activity is predictable. The users first actions on Wiki
were to edit the pages of the King David Hotel bombing. He also edited
other pages related to Jewish Insurgency. How many of these important
pages were edited by someone who thinks Tony Greenstein is a reliable
source, is anyone’s guess. It is worth pointing out that the Wiki page
for the King David Hotel bombing opens by directly calling it a
‘terrorist attack’. The pages for suicide attacks against Israel, such
as bus bombings, do not use such direct terminology. He has also made
edits on pages such as on Shlomo Sand’s book, ‘the invention of the
Jewish people’. Wiki is compiled by people who trust Tony Greenstein,
think antisemitism is a smear campaign and do not like Jews/Zionists
very much.
I will bring one piece of evidence to show just HOW selective Wikipedia
is. In December 2019, Zscarpia edited the page for Stephen Sizer – his
reason for doing so was because a ‘Board of Deputies’ document was used
as a source. He deleted the BOD link. He claimed that the BOD document
was not reliable to use as a source. This is the same user who inserts
the trashy work of students into antisemitic Wiki pages when it suits him.
If you read this Lobby page properly, especially the ‘talk‘ section –
you will never use Wikipedia again. Nor should you. In fact the world
will be a better place if everyone ceases to use Wikipedia or at least
refuse to ever financially support it. The entire construct has become
an antisemitic dogpile. They included a piece solely because it said
what they wanted it to. This is how twisted Wiki articles can be.
Which brings us to a case where the opposite rules apply:
The massacre that wasn’t
In the Israel Lobby section just discussed, Wiki editors were arguing
for the inclusion of a junk antisemitic conspiracy article because it
was ‘of interest’ to them. They acknowledged it was written by a
‘student’ but spoke up the quality of her writing (even though as shown,
the article is junk). They were so insistent on its import they
justified using four whole sentences from the article to support the
page. Which brings us to an existing issue with another Wikipedia page –
about a massacre that never happened.
My research on the myth of the ‘Balad al-Shaykh massacre‘ is well known.
I discovered a contemporary police report from the British archives that
shows that the bragging Haganah fighters had exaggerated their activity.
In fact there was no massacre at all. Only five Arabs had died that
night, with three Jews also killed. I have the names and ages of the
victims.
Wikipedia has a page on the event, outrageously calling it a ‘massacre’
and suggesting there may have been anything from 21 to 70 killed. So I
tried to get it changed. Over three years has passed and the massacre
page is still standing. The changes have been called ‘crap‘ by Wiki
editors. It was uploaded by regular Wiki users in further attempts to
have the material included. This too was deleted with claims that I am
an unreliable source and further comments suggesting that the Wiki user
is not allowed to edit that page. The key gatekeeper on this page was a
user by the name of ‘Nishidani’ – whose user page is full of quotes
about how Israel is an Apartheid state that is ‘infinitely worse‘ than
South Africa was. This is the user who wouldn’t allow the archive
material to be included. He has made over 80,000 edits on Wikipedia.
Think about it – it is proving impossible to get even one grave and
blatant error on Wikipedia changed, even when supported by archive
material. If only I was a Glasgow student writing antisemitic conspiracy
theories – then the doors of Wikipedia would open widely for me.
Jewish Voice for Labour
There are different types of bias. The Jewish Voice for Labour page must
be included here because it shows how Wikipedia exists in its own
universe, untouched by the reality around it. The page does not even
inform readers that JVL members have been suspended and expelled from
the Labour Party. The entire page reads like a promotion. The page was
clearly written and edited by members and supporters. It is just list of
empty claims that JVL have made. Contrast this page, with the page about
Campaign Against Antisemitism, which has an entire section set up for
criticism of the group. Wikipedia are not even trying to hide the bias –
nobody cares because they think there is nothing you can do. Roland
Rance – one of the key JVL faces – has even outrageously made edits on
the JVL page. As a side note, Roland Rance has made over 30,000 edits on
Wikipedia in a career stretching back 14 years.
Christian Persecution
Then there is bias by omission. As an example there is a Wiki section on
persecuted Palestinian Christians. It is a tiny section about three
paragraphs long. In the last 100 years, the percentage of Christians in
the Palestinian community has dropped from over 10% to just about 1.5%.
Much of the section in Wiki is given to criticising Israel. Where
Islamic persecution is mentioned – such as Islamic attacks in Gaza – the
article swiftly provides a quote denying the claim. Given the true
nature of Islamic persecution of Christians and the unarguable
disappearance of Palestinian Christian households – this page is
Wikipedia given protection to blatant ethnic cleansing.
The land without a people
The phrase ‘a land without a people for a people without a land‘ has its
own Wiki page. The meaning of the phrase is pretty clear cut and the
only real arguments can be on historical usage and context. The
statement is unambiguous. The Jews had no land, the land of Israel was
underpopulated. No Zionist today needs to pretend that 19th century
Zionists weren’t living in the 19th century. History is only relevant
and true when viewed in context.

What the phrase cannot signal is an intent to ethnically cleanse the
inhabitants. It clearly does not consider there to be any inhabitants.
Yet in the Wikipedia page as ‘possible interpretations’, that very
suggestion is made. This is beyond absurd. The statement literally says
there is nobody there. Of all the possible interpretations that we can
bring to a table to discuss – this one is loony tunes. What it is
however – is a propagandist’s opportunity to insert ‘ethnic cleansing’
into the discussion. This is Wikipedia’s golden rule – every possible
opportunity to place antisemitic or anti-Israel propaganda on any page –
is always taken.
The page only exists because a sock-puppet (since banned) created it.
The User behind the sock puppet was also banned for using multiple
accounts. A short while afterwards, a new section titled ‘an expression
of the intent of ethnic cleansing‘ was introduced to the page. That user
has also been banned for hiding behind multiple accounts.
It is a page created and edited by trolls. How much of Wikipedia has
been created and edited by people who are not acting in good faith? As
this article shows – and it is just the tip of the iceberg – you would
have to be a fool to even click on any link to Wikipedia – not matter
how lazy you are.
Conclusion – Wiki a war of attrition
Last year I wrote a report on a school text book. After publication
Pearson pulled the text book from the shelves. One of my key findings
was that the author had relied on Wikipedia as a central source for her
research. One of the examples I gave from the book was about information
taken from Wikipedia on the 1956/57 exodus of Jews from Egypt. That page
was edited more by the Wiki user ‘Onceinawhile‘ (mentioned earlier in
this research), than any other Editor. Which shows how toxic Wiki edits
can end up in our schools – being taught to children as a fact in a
textbook.
‘Israel’, ‘Jews’, ‘Jerusalem’ these are some of the most visited pages
on Wikipedia. There are 10,000s of relevant pages. Yet every page on
Wikipedia that is on the subject of Israel or Palestinians is tainted –
and contains lies about Jewish people. Wikipedia is an antisemitic website.
Wikipedia’s influence is unimaginable. The problem here is that Wiki
fails us all. Some pages – such as the sections on Palestinian history –
are incoherent and ahistorical garbage. The pages on Jews and
antisemitism only help to spread a hatred of Jews. Those who set up the
rules for Wikipedia may have anticipated acts of correctable terrorism
on their pages – but did not foresee the war of attrition. Nobody was
going to come along and attempt to rewrite history in a day. The best
strategy is taking the current mindset apart brick by brick. Patiently
over a number of years. That is what is happening with Wikipedia. As bad
as it might have been a few years ago, each year it becomes gradually worse.
Every edit by someone with a Zionist leaning is placed under a
microscope, if it gets past the gatekeepers at all – and then
immediately contrasted with the placement of an anti-Zionist
counter-argument. There is no shifting towards a more moderate or
historically accurate narrative. On the other hand – it is impossible to
keep pace with all of those innocent – and not so innocent- corrections
that lean the other way. All of the errors therefore lean in one
direction. As Wiki places new information on the shoulders of the
information that came before, the passage of time has only exacerbated
the situation. As it stands today – Wiki is doing more damage to
historicity and to the Jews – than any other media outlet on the planet.
Something must be done and this battle cannot be fought in the trenches.
We need to take action. Start by making sure nobody in your circle
donates to the website. Then make a call so others stop funding this
Jew-hate. Start petitions calling for change and for the government to
discuss the problem. Unless Wikipedia can clear up the insidious
antisemitism from its pages – a call should be made for schools to block
the website. Wikipedia should be considered harmful content. There are
antisemites out there trying to influence our children and turn them
against Jews – why should that be accessible in a school setting? If
Facebook and Twitter have to answer to government because of the
negative influence they have, why isn’t the government also looking at
Wikipedia? No one can deny its influence. It is time for us to deal with
Wikipedia.
If you have ideas or knowledge that can help – do not hesistate to get
in touch with me – and please if you can, help to support this research.
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So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
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DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
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Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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