The ridiculous background of pallyweid "gaza genocide[sic]" wikipedia page.
The ridiculous background of pallyweid "gaza genocide[sic]" wikipedia page.
- Anti-Israel lobby: organized, coordinated edits.
- Racist Francesca Albanese as the main source.
- Then, recruited, some fascistic terror PFLP linked so called "human rights" groups, as "RS," Al Mezan etc.
- The first edit based on Urban dictionary...
- Sockpuppeting.
It was first created under "Allegations have been made that the 2023 Israel–Hamas war constituted a genocide against the Palestinians," [2024-01-09] by user "Crampcomes".
In another attempt to flood israelophobia on wiki, by excluding Israel from any other entries, expanding every sub page, online with any other country or entity.
The first and only "source" [mentioning the G word] the editor based the so called "genocide" page was, no other than, an entry in Urban Dictionary which a person has added. He created the page "Mohammed Ateeq Al-Falahi."
Dozens of Wikipedia editors colluded on years-long anti-Israel campaign, bombshell ADL report claims.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/18/business/dozens-of-wikipedia-editors-colluded-on-years-long-anti-israel-campaign-bombshell-adl-report-claims/ https://archive.ph/6qtvT
ADL accuses 30 Wikipedia editors of organized anti-Israel bias.
All Israel News Staff | Published: March 21, 2025
https://allisrael.com/adl-accuses-30-wikipedia-editors-of-organized-anti-israel-bias
May 2024:
The Arabist lobby overwhelm and succeed to decide to move "Allegations" to a supposed "confirmed". The main base has been founded on Francesca Albanese, before adding others. "Sources" are flooded with Erdogan's Turkish sites and Qatar's Al Jazeera. Wikipedia has an antisemitism problem. Wikipedia has decided that the allegation of genocide in Gaza is now a fact, once again igniting controversy as content is manipulated to target Israel.
By Aviva Winton, JPost, September 13, 2024.
(FRANCESCA ALBANESE, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories speaks in Cairo, earlier this year. Her antisemitic rhetoric has caused the US to call for her removal, the writer notes).https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-819899
The latest scandal involving Wikipedia should, by any reasonable measure, hammer a final nail into the coffin of its credibility as a reliable source of information about Israel and Jews.
According to Ynet, after months of debate, Wikipedia editors recently voted to change the heading of its page entitled “Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Israeli attack on Gaza” to “Gaza genocide.”
In other words, Wikipedia decided that the “allegation” of genocide in Gaza is now a “settled fact.”
Among the so-called experts cited for this “consensus” is Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, whose hate-filled social media posts employed such openly antisemitic rhetoric that the US has called for her removal from the position.
Islamist [editwarring] user "Kashmiri" eager [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gaza_genocide&diff=prev&oldid=1222439723&diffonly=1] before decision to change description. May 5, 2025. He is a blocked [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kashmiri] user. After, which infamous bigoted Wikipedian 'iskandar323,' (TFP 'Tech for Palestine')
https://archive.ph/oAUuS (https://archive.ph/je7DM), months earlier linking the then 'Allegations' page as if "confirmed", under plain, 'genocide'.
After that concerted campaign [by organized lobby] - elevating allegation of "genocide" succeeded to/in "confirming" it, initiating as a separate page, see:
Based - edit :
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gaza_genocide&diff=prev&oldid=1278023584
Editing a terrorist linked "source," (of Wiki false RS) no less Al Mezan:
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights A number of Al Mezan officials and employees are members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Hamas, terrorist organizations...
https://ngo-monitor.org/ngos/al_mezan_center_for_human_rights/
still based on that infamous bigot, so-called UN "expert" Facsista Francesca Albanese:
UN Watch - Francesca Albanese.
https://unwatch.org/tag/francesca-albanese/
Related:
How Hamas sympathizers took over Wikipedia.
General News/Politics.
Introduction.
Since 7/10 there have been cadres of ultra-pro-Palestine editors on Wikipedia who have been singularly focused on painting Israel as the evil aggressor. Certain prominent editors with more than 100,000 edits to Wikipedia openly support Hamas.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/1c8dvus/how_hamas_sympathizers_took_over_wikipedia/
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Seven Tactics Wikipedia Editors Used to Spread Anti-Israel Bias Since Oct. 7.
May 28, 2024.
https://cameraoncampus.org/blog/seven-tactics-wikipedia-editors-used-to-spread-anti-israel-bias-since-oct-7/
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Wikipedia’s Jewish Problem. The site seems to be intentionally trafficking in disinformation related to Jews, Israel, and Zionism.
Isabella Tabarovsky, Tablet Magazine, July 24, 2024.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/wikipedia-jewish-problem
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Wikipedia blasted for ‘wildly inaccurate’ change to entry on Zionism: ‘Downright antisemitic’.
By Peter Cordi.
September 19, 2024.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/3160214/wikipedia-blasted-inaccurate-change-entry-zionism/
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How Wikipedia’s Pro-Hamas Editors Hijacked the Israel-Palestine Narrative.
a powerful group of editors is hijacking wikipedia, pushing pro-palestinian propaganda, erasing key facts about hamas, and reshaping the narrative around israel with alarming influence.
Ashley Rindsberg.
Oct 24, 2024.
https://www.piratewires.com/p/how-wikipedia-s-pro-hamas-editors-hijacked-the-israel-palestine-narrative
https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1849551071171183007 https://archive.ph/UAWIG
How Wikimedia Foundation makes editorial decisions for Wikipedia, censors dissenting admins and engages in favouritism.
18 November, 2024.
https://www.opindia.com/2024/11/wikipedia-controlled-by-wikimedia-foundation-editors-conflict-of-interest-publisher-not-intermediary/
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Wikipedia's anti-Israel bias undermines objectivity and credibility.
Nov 11, 2024.
https://www.factsandlogic.org/wikipedias-anti-israel-bias-undermines-objectivity-and-credibility/
Wikipedia's SHOCKING Anti-Israel Bias REVEALED.
Zionist wants to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land as many Jews and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.
In October 7 Aftermath, Wikipedia Entries in English Show Anti-Israel ...
Mar 19, 2024 — The English-language version of Wikipedia contains an anti-Israel bias that perpetuates disinformation and promotes negative stereotypes.
https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/wikipedia-entries-show-anti-israel-bias-says-wjc
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American Dreaming.
Wikipedia’s Islamist Vandals
And the whitewashing of Hajj Amin al-Husseini.
Alexander von Sternberg. Nov 22, 2024.
A recent Pirate Wires exposé by Ashley Rindsberg about the goings-on at Wikipedia caught my eye the other day, and has held my attention ever since. I was familiar with Rindsberg’s work, notably his incredible historical critique of the New York Times, The Gray Lady Winked: How The New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions & Fabrications Radically Alter History (2021), so I knew this reporting was something to take seriously. However, I did not realize how much it actually related to the work I’ve been doing with my podcast History Impossible for the past six years, namely with regard to Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a historical figure who has, perhaps unfortunately, become something of the show’s mascot.
In his piece, Rindsberg detailed a coordinated effort behind the scenes to engage in deliberate actions that compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia, what the Wikipedia community refers to as “vandalism.” This case involved about 40 editors working on behalf of a group called Tech for Palestine, a Discord group of about 8,000 members. According to the article, they “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.” Once their actions started coming to light, the rogue editors immediately tried covering their tracks. This suggests to me that they recognized their actions were not only dishonest, but also completely violated the spirit of a site like Wikipedia.
Many of the examples reported by Rindsberg are troubling, including changes to omit any mention of Hamas’s 1988 charter — a document that was a little less than, shall we say, “diplomatic” in its wording of their own Jewish Question. Lest we forget, the original charter both explicitly referred to Jews as “Nazis” and glowingly cited the story of the Prophet Muhammad being told by Allah to kill any Jew hiding behind a tree or a rock in order to bring about the Day of Judgment. In 2017, Hamas leadership took a page from the Hitler handbook of never admitting anything on paper and changed their charter to reflect a hatred of Zionists rather than spelling out “Jews.”
Another Wiki change — or rather, series of changes — included sanitizing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s reputation by deleting any mention of the theocracy’s human rights abuses. As documented by Amnesty International, these include arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture, and punishments that include “flogging, blinding, amputation, crucifixion, and stoning.” In some ways, the most disturbing edit involved the from-scratch creation of a new Wiki article called “Racial conceptions of Jewish identity in Zionism”, (originally titled “Zionism, race and genetics”). As Rindsberg writes, two editors “attempt[ed] to tie Zionism’s roots to 19th century views on ‘race science’ embraced by the Nazis, thereby drawing an implicit — and, in at least one instance in the article, explicit — parallel between Zionism and Nazism.” The editors’ most concerted effort, however, occurred after the pogrom on October 7th, 2023, which Rindsberg summarizes as follows:
“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.’”
Disconcerting as many of these revelations are, I was most struck by the following:
“One of the articles targeted most intensively by the group is the one for Amin Al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem from the 1920s to the 1950s, a pivotal figure in Palestinian history. While Iskandar323 [a prominent member of TFP] worked to remove negative content from the Al-Husseini article, it was two other members of the group — Zero0000 and Nishidani — who would have the greatest impact, together making over 1,000 edits to the article, often in an attempt to erase or downplay Al-Husseini’s well-documented collaboration with Hitler.
In one instance in April 2021, Zero0000 and Nishidani worked together to keep a photo of Al-Husseini touring a Nazi concentration camp out of the article. [...] To date, Nishidani’s contributions to the article on Al-Husseini comprise 56.4 percent of its content.”
As long-time listeners of my History Impossible podcast know, this figure — the Grand Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini — has been at the center of the ongoing “Muslim Nazis” series I have been researching since 2018 and producing since 2021. To call him the show’s mascot, as I did earlier, is not too far off. While there are certainly nuances to Husseini’s biography — namely his family’s treatment at the hands of the British Empire — there is far more negative than there is positive, whatever one’s thoughts about Israel, Palestine, and Zionism. He was largely responsible for most of the pre-1948 rejections of peace settlements between Arab nationalists and Zionists. Prior to helping foment the Arab Revolt of 1936–1939, Husseini was arguably partially responsible for the pogroms and riots unleashed upon the Jews of the Holy Land in 1920 and 1929. He also had a hand in the agitation in Iraq between 1939 and 1941 that led to the Farhud, the most destructive pogrom in Iraqi Jewish history.
This is to say nothing — about which I have said much — of his alliance with Nazi Germany after his flight from the Middle East in 1941. This relationship produced little in the way of tangible results but much in the way of tangible evidence of Husseini’s priorities, which included his attempts to have Jewish emigres shipped to Poland, knowing full well what was happening there. The man was, without question, a rampant hater of Jews. Distinctions between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism need not apply here either. In fact, as I recently covered in History Impossible, it was thanks to Hajj Amin’s influence that the Nazis’ propaganda campaigns in the Middle East began to blur the identities of Zionism and Jewishness. Portraying them as two sides of the same coin was part of their effort to broaden the distrust and hatred of Jews in the region as much as possible.
However, one would not know any of this if they looked at the Wikipedia entry covering Hajj Amin al-Husseini. As Rindsberg explained, Husseini’s villainous behavior was subjected to extreme whitewashing to the tune of over 1,000 edits, particularly involving his complicity with the Third Reich. The concerted effort to prevent the photographic evidence of Hajj Amin touring a Nazi concentration camp — specifically Sachsenhausen — from being displayed after its unveiling in 2021 is particularly emblematic of how insidious Wiki vandalism can be. Thankfully, those photos are easily found on the Internet, but given that people’s first impression of any subject is usually Wikipedia, their removal from the site essentially amounts to historical censorship...
https://americandreaming.substack.com/p/wikipedias-islamist-vandals
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Wikipedia Editors Place Moratorium on Controversial Sentence in Zionism Article
Decision means anti-Israel sentence in Zionism article cannot be edited or discussed for one year.
Aaron Bandler.
March 20, 2025.
https://jewishjournal.com/news/380108/wikipedia-editors-place-moratorium-on-controversial-sentence-in-zionism-article/
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Print Issue: Wikipedia for Palestine | March 21, 2025.
An obscure Discord chat room, "Tech For Palestine," infiltrated Wikipedia, the world's largest information database, and spread anti-Israel propaganda. We tell the inside story.
https://jewishjournal.com/print-issue/380100/print-issue-wikipedia-for-palestine-march-21-2025/
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ADL: Anti-Israel Wikipedia editors colluding in anti-Israel bias on site.
Mar 18, 2025 — At least 30 Wikipedia editors work together to inject the online encyclopedia with misinformation bias, watchdog claims.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/adl-anti-israel-wikipedia-editors-colluding-in-anti-israel-bias-on-site/
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Thirty editors are altering Wikipedia articles with antisemitic bias.
Mar 18, 2025.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-846563
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Lawmakers press Wikipedia to clarify and enforce editorial oversight to prevent anti-Israel bias.
The group of 23 bipartisan members of Congress told the Wikimedia Foundation: ‘It is clear that more needs to be done to ensure Wikipedia remains free of bias, antisemitism and pro-terrorist content’.
By Gabby Deutch. May 1, 2025.
https://jewishinsider.com/2025/05/wikipedia-congress-members-bipartisan-letter-anti-israel-bias/
Bipartisan Lawmakers Demand Wikimedia Rein in Antisemitism, Uphold Neutrality
Washington, May 1, 2025.
Evidence points to a startling lack of enforcement of Wikipedia’s most basic rules and editorial safeguards. Given the immense influence that Wikipedia articles have over our online and real life global conversations, far more editorial responsibility and transparency is needed, immediately.
Washington DC – Today, U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) and Don Bacon (NE-02) led a group of 23 Members in sending Wikimedia CEO Maryana Iskander a letter seeking answers on how the online encyclopedia will enforce its own rules, curb editor bias and prevent antisemitism and pro-terrorist content from infiltrating Wikipedia pages.
Despite its free, community-sourced platform, Wikipedia’s influence is immeasurable. Millions of internet readers read its reference material, and search engines and Artificial Intelligence language models draw on its articles. However, recent ADL research found widespread antisemitic and anti-Israel bias on its pages, across multiple languages, especially on content related to Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as an apparent coordinated promotion of pro-Hamas propaganda.
“Evidence points to a startling lack of enforcement of Wikipedia’s most basic rules and editorial safeguards. Given the immense influence that Wikipedia articles have over our online and real life global conversations, far more editorial responsibility and transparency is needed, immediately,” said Wasserman Schultz. “My hope is that our bipartisan questions and concerns can curb a suspected coordinated campaign to manipulate Wikipedia content that drives antisemitic content and biases.”
“Antisemitism and anti-Israel views have increased on Wikipedia due to their lack of enforcing their own rules and standards and they need to take steps immediately to fix the problem,” said Bacon. “Wikipedia has such a broad reach and people take what is posted there as 100 percent truth, when it always isn’t. I’m glad to join Rep. Wasserman Schulz on this bipartisan letter, in the hopes we can get Wikimedia to fix this.”
https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3330
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Lawmakers press Wikipedia to clarify and enforce editorial oversight to prevent anti-Israel bias.
The group of 23 bipartisan members of Congress told the Wikimedia Foundation: ‘It is clear that more needs to be done to ensure Wikipedia remains free of bias, antisemitism and pro-terrorist content’.
By Gabby Deutch. May 1, 2025.
https://jewishinsider.com/2025/05/wikipedia-congress-members-bipartisan-letter-anti-israel-bias/
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The Wikipedia Flood
Documenting Wikipedia's Anti-Israel Bias.
https://thewikipediaflood.blogspot.com
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