Report: Anti-Israel, Pro-Hamas Bias at Wikipedia Continues Despite Widespread Criticism
“The edits to Wikipedia’s History of Israel page show how references to the Jewish people’s ancient connection to the land were erased, replaced with a vague regional narrative that blurs Israel’s identity and distorts historical truth.”
The October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians didn’t just lay bare their ultimate goal for the world to see. They also further exposed the anti-Israel, antisemitic rot that has long infested higher education institutions, the media industry, and the Democratic Party.
We wrote in August, for example, how the House Oversight Committee was preparing to launch an investigation into alleged information manipulation by Wikipedia on subjects related to Israel and the Jewish people, based in part on credible reports about editor bias, something Legal Insurrection has also extensively covered:
- Wikipedia is Pushing Disinformation About Israel and Jews
- Anti-Israel Activist Editors at Wikipedia Have Hijacked the ‘Palestine’ Narrative
- Wikipedia Editors Won’t Allow Gaza Health Ministry to be Called ‘Hamas Run’
- ADL Report Claims Wikipedia Editors Colluded on Long-Term Anti-Israel Campaign
To lend credence to the allegations, Dr. Shlomit Aharoni Lir, a writer and researcher at the University of Haifa, put together a comprehensive visual exhibit, which debuted at the World Jewish Congress’s annual National Community Directors Forum in September, titled “Manipulated History: Past Version vs. Present Subversion—The Growing Bias Against Israel on Wikipedia.”
In it, Dr. Aharoni Lir referenced seven entries “that reflect a range of editorial distortions, from selective terminology to framing tactics and blurring of facts.” She compared the entries, six of which were made before the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks, to edits made to the pages after, detailing what she described as significant “narrative shifts” away from any semblance of neutrality.
She detailed them on her X feed:
Wikipedia, once committed to neutrality, now hosts biased edits that rewrite history.
By erasing context and reframing narratives, it undermines truth and chips away at Israel’s right to exist.
🧵2/10 pic.twitter.com/4kjDKmRQx1— Dr. Shlomit Aharoni Lir (@shlomitlir) September 16, 2025
One of Wikipedia's most biased sentences falsely claims Zionists aimed to create a Jewish state in Palestine with maximum land and Jews, and minimal Palestinian Arabs.
Shockingly, this blunt lie by a topic-banned user is protected from correction until 2026.
🧵4/10 pic.twitter.com/vj5Pxan0m9— Dr. Shlomit Aharoni Lir (@shlomitlir) September 16, 2025
Eric Mechoulan, an ENS alum with a Ph.D. in history and visiting professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine, critiques Wikipedia's Zionism article for misleading framing, arguing biased wording distorts its origins and goals.
🧵6/10 pic.twitter.com/sNz7ATPBS6
— Dr. Shlomit Aharoni Lir (@shlomitlir) September 16, 2025
The edits to Wikipedia’s History of Israel page show how references to the Jewish people’s ancient connection to the land were erased, replaced with a vague regional narrative that blurs Israel’s identity and distorts historical truth.
🧵8/10 pic.twitter.com/RejxhOqChm— Dr. Shlomit Aharoni Lir (@shlomitlir) September 16, 2025
Wikipedia's entry on the Mujahideen Brigades reveals how language manipulation reshapes reality.
In 2024, they were identified as a militant group waging armed warfare and launching rocket attacks against Israel; by 2025, they were reframed as a Palestinian “movement.”
🧵10/10 pic.twitter.com/vPnjUxBU49— Dr. Shlomit Aharoni Lir (@shlomitlir) September 16, 2025
Dr. Aharoni Lir was also careful to note in her report that while progress had been made in getting Wikimedia (which hosts the Wikipedia site) to address the issues, they still had a long way to go:
…in January 2025, the Wikipedia community has taken some action to address the issue of biased editing, including the imposition of topic bans on six prominent, partisan antiIsrael editors.
Additionally, in March 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation announced its acceptance of one of the key suggestions in the report, declaring that “to support the Wikimedia communities and reaffirm our commitment to neutrality,” it “will convene a working group of active editors, Trustees, researchers, and advisors to explore recommendations for common standards for NPOV3 policies that can protect Wikipedia, increase the integrity of the projects, and equip the volunteers trusted to administer these policies with more support.”
However, underlying biases, manipulation, and the use of Wikipedia as a platform for advancing one-sided narratives concerning Israel and the conflict remain a persistent challenge.
Case in point:
The difference between informing and brainwashing:
📖 Britannica introduces Israel by geography and borders.
🌐 Wikipedia opens with “occupies Palestinian territories.”Wikipedia has become a propaganda tool for pro-Hamas editors to manipulate public opinion. pic.twitter.com/VJTdJekm5Z
— WikiBias (@WikiBias2024) September 23, 2025
Dr. Aharoni Lir’s full report can be read here.
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no surprises on this leftist craftmanship
its what the do
they have most ? /some of the maga crowd speaking their narratives and /or
not speaking at all …all based on the fear that the obaaaaa>>>>fjb reign put onto us
hegseth 2028( he’d never win..but you get the idea)
There is, of course a subset of Jewhaters in the MAGA crowd who are utterly immune to logic or facts, but I would hope they are relatively few in number.
The sheer illogic of the narrative that the Muslim invaders and aggressors are the victims should be enough to awaken anyone, but since we have been seeing the same narrative in this country since 9/11, I guess that’s a vain hope.
If you cling to the belief that Jewish banksters have been manipulating and controlling the world for the past 1000 years, then there is not much point in discussion.
Those Jew haters are not truly in the MAGA crowd. They simply share some views with those who actually are.
Those who hate Israel tend to either hate America as well, or simply hold false assumptions and incorrect beliefs about Israel.
Left revisions never end; relying on Wikipedia for facts is like looking for diamonds in a cesspool.
Wikipedia – some interesting background to who has been guiding it’s demeanor:
The Clintons, Charlie Kirk & The Wikipedia SCAM of the Century EXPOSED
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Clinton+Charlie+Kirk+Wikipedia+Scam+of+Century
Complaining about bias in Wikipedia is like complaining about blackflies in Vermont.
If you don’t like it, go somewhere else.
It’s like Snopes. If you want to know if Piltdown Man was a hoax, it’s safe to go there. If you want to know what Trump meant by “very fine people,” go somewhere based.
The problem is it is integrated everywhere and not everyone knows about the bias, especially kids and college students. They take it as truth and it just confirms the indoctrination they are receiving in school.
Life is full of bad choices. Kids got to learn that going to Wikipedia for sociopolitical information is like going to 16th Street Vito for a short-term loan.
Whose going to teach them that? Their progressive teachers?
You are absolutely on point here.
No, that’s your job.
Assuming you can leave the job of teaching your kids what you believe to anyone other than you is indeed as stupid as it sounds when you say it out loud. You
I used to donate money to Wikipedia, but I stopped doing so, several years ago, after its obnoxiously and brazenly leftist/Dhimmi-crat/Islamofascist bias in articles became glaringly obvious.
The willful manipulation of content to attempt to erase, obscure and obfuscate Jews’ millennia-old history and ties to ancient Israel and the middle east, at-large, and, to slander and malign “Zionism” as an allegedly nefarious concept, is more than merely profoundly dishonest and brazenly propagandistic — it is evil.
The antisemitic garage vomited out by Wikipedia may not, in and if itself, be the real problem. An even bigger issue in today’s world is AI. AI tools will vacuum up this trash and relate it, together with other media generated pro Hamas propaganda, as truth to an uninformed new generation of budding lemmings. Actually the antisemites polluting Wikipedia are probably counting on this.
AIs are weasels. You can use them to step ‘n fetch for you because they’re wicked faster than you at sorting through and past the “preferred” nonsense the the Google Gang puts up front in the search results to tire you out, but don’t trust their responses to be complete OR even correct. They cite URLs that don’t include stuff you specifically asked it to look for, They’re best used for fast searches you can easily verify yourself.
(I just learned that Grok has the capability of finding exact matches for a desired product on Amazon, freeing you from having to parse the pages full of dross that their deliberately-detuned search “facility” dredges up to tempt you, and often even to obscure the fact that they don’t actually have the exact item you’re asking for in the first place.)
AI is good for appliance, car repair, home and garden, and other non-political subjects. The sources it uses for political issues are uniformly leftist.
This is my experience, too. Google AI is great for answering questions about gardening, cooking, wines, quantum physics, television shows, men’s clothing, investing, quantitative comparisons between publicly-traded companies; etc.
The minute you venture into queries related to politics, the answers are predictably, gallingly and sanctimoniously pro-leftist/Dhimmi-crat in tone and bent, and, reliably anti-conservative.
Can Grok find election ballots for each state and each election? Asking for a friend.
Apparently you can get official state of Maine election ballots delivered right to your door by Amazon.
Maine Woman Discovers Hundreds of Election Ballots in Amazon Package as State Considers Voter ID
We can’t even do that in Arizona.
The whiz kids here have designed a system where any citizen can walk up to any polling booth anywhere in their county and receive a custom printed ballot that reflects only the choices available in their own home district, right down to the precinct committeemen and school board. As you might expect, it’s totally baroque and failure prone.
Yemenipedia.
The old Nazipedia comparison is increasingly becoming reality. You can’t even edit a lot of the Israel-Hamas related pages unless you’re an approved editor. Frankly the only way Israel is likely to get a fair go on Wikipedia is if they make editing Wikipedia content part of the school curriculum or something – a co-ordinated mass movement by pro-Israel types.
1. Lock alleged controversial page. In this case anything dealing with Israel.
2. Allow only “approved” editors/administrators ability to directly edit the locked page. All others must seek administrator approval on the discussion page for any edit they may wish to make. and if approved the administrator/editor will make the edit for the user.
3. When an edit controversy takes place call for a “consensus” on what to do will be made. Generally, this is biased as the anti-zionist/pro-hamas faction will coordinate their response to influence the edits of the article in question to favor their Anti-Israel, pro-hamas outlook.
4. Lather, rinse, repeat as many times as necessary and the alleged neutral Wikipedia just becomes a cesspool of anti-zionist, Anti-Israel, pro-hamas propaganda on those pages dealing with Israel, its history and the current conflict.
And there’s nothing that can be done about it. Israel and Jews will never get a fair shake or hearing on wikipedia.
What Israelis (not the government) should do is use their influence to try and steer google away from Wikipedia.
The issue is Israel’s culture seems to be completely immune to rational thought when it comes to Israel’s abysmal reputation in the west or the loss of public opinion in the west so would Israelis with actual influence actually try to get google to steer away from Wikipedia or just throw up their hands over anti-Semitism?