Law Students at Harvard Hold ‘Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon’ Targeting Firms That Criticized School’s Response to Antisemitism
“to soften the language about anti-Semitic activity on college campuses”
The left controls Wikipedia and they think that they can change reality by making the site reflect their views.
The Washington Free Beacon reported:
At Harvard-Hosted ‘Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon,’ Law Students Target the Pages of Firms That Criticized School’s Response to Anti-Semitism
Anti-Israel Harvard Law School students organized a workshop on the Ivy League campus earlier this month to edit the Wikipedia pages of more than a dozen prominent law firms, singling out some that threatened to stop recruiting at the school over its failure to rein in anti-Semitic activity.
Harvard’s National Lawyers Guild chapter, a left-wing legal advocacy group, hosted the “Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon” on April 2 at Harvard Law’s WCC student center, according to an announcement on Harvard Law’s website.
Third-year Harvard Law student Corinne Shanahan, an organizer with Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, organized the clinic for students to “gather data to edit the Wikipedia pages of Big Law firms to reflect cases they have recently argued.”
Two days later, Harvard Law student Aashna Avachat edited the Wikipedia pages of 14 law firms, mostly to add details of their representation of clients that the activist students deemed to be unsavory, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of Wikipedia edit logs.
Avachat edited the pages for the firms Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to soften the language about anti-Semitic activity on college campuses. Amid a wave of anti-Semitic protests following the Hamas attack on Israel, the two firms warned Harvard Law and others that they would cut back on recruiting on their campuses for failing to rein in anti-Semitic incidents.
The edit logs show Avachat changed the term “antisemitic incidents” to “pro-Palestine protests,” and reworded references to “incidents targeting Jewish students” to incidents that the law firms “described … as antisemitic.”
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I’ll be careful in choosing a law firm, if I ever hire one, that it’s one that was on the right side of these issues. I’ll prefer firms that had their pages edited to fuzz up the good they did.
If Shakespeare had lived in this time of BigLaw, he would have said “First we kill all the lawyers for the other side.”
Just wait until Harvard A holes get their property tax bill, nearly $500 million,
Shakespeare didn’t say “first we kill the lawyers”, he had the villainous Dick the Butcher say it. The whole point of the line is that lawyers are all that stand between us and tyranny.
It’s so encouraging to see the next generation of lawyers trying to rig cases by falsifying evidence.
That fancy DEI training makes them easier to convict, disbar, and imprison.
Hey Fani, Tish, Jack — you go, girls!
Oh dear, they’re redesigning other people’s sand castles, while taking no note of the tide.
Only idiots trust Wikipedia, Snopes, or the dozen or so remaining self-anointed “Fact Checker” sites as authorities on anything controversial whatsoever,
I hope they continue to reveal who they are so they can be “blackballed”. I’m more concerned those who harbor the same views but don’t reveal them and then burrow into various institutions to take them over from within. Thanks democrats.
A Wikipedia-edit-a-thon? So they’re actually admitting to a BS-a-thon?