Anti-Israel Activist Editors at Wikipedia Have Hijacked the ‘Palestine’ Narrative
“a highly coordinated, sustained and remarkably effective campaign to radically alter public perception of the conflict”
This sort of thing happens with Wikipedia all the time. The site is controlled by the left.
Pirate Wires reports:
How Wikipedia’s Pro-Hamas Editors Hijacked the Israel-Palestine Narrative
On everything from American politics to corporate brands, Wikipedia plays host to a smoldering battle of ideas and values that occasionally erupts into white-hot, internecine edit wars. But no fire burns hotter than the Israel-Palestine topic area. The topic is such a flashpoint that the Palestine-Israel Articles (PIA) designation is used synonymously with its own dispute resolution abbreviation — Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel Articles, known as ARBPIA in Wiki-speak.
While always contentious, over roughly the past four years, and intensifying since October 7, PIA has been subject to a highly coordinated, sustained and remarkably effective campaign to radically alter public perception of the conflict. Led by around 40 mostly veteran editors, the campaign 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.
A separate but complementary campaign, launched after October 7 and staged from an 8,000 member-strong Discord group called Tech For Palestine (TFP), employed common tech modalities — ticket creation, strategy planning sessions, group audio “office hour” chats — to alter over 100 articles. Operating from February 6 to September 3 of this year, TFP became a well-oiled operation, going so far as to attempt to use Wikipedia as a means of pressuring British members of parliament into changing their positions on Israel and the Gaza War.
These efforts are remarkably successful. Type “Zionism” into Wikipedia’s search box and, aside from the main article on Zionism (and a disambiguation page), the auto-fill returns: “Zionism as settler colonialism,” “Zionism in the Age of the Dictators” (a book by a pro-Palestinian Trotskyite), “Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims,” and “Racism in Israel.”
The aggregate effect of these efforts is a wholesale shift to the landscape of the Palestine-Israel topic online. As I reported in a previous Pirate Wires investigation, this is largely thanks to Google, which grants Wikipedia a “most favored nation” status with articles automatically given the first spot on any topic-related search result.
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“Leftard Activist Editors at Wikipedia Have Hijacked the ‘You Name It’ Narrative”
It’s a Mad Lib headline you could write every day,
It’s a broken system that takes what was designed as a publicly-managed resource (there’s your first alarm right there) and lets dedicated zealots make their own CHOP/CHAZ zones that no one else can breach.
Wikipedia is not a credible source of information, especially with things that are political. Israel is in the right 99% of the time, Wikipedia is wrong at least 20% of the time.
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