Posted on 05/28/2024 2:17:15 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
“Numerous commentators have identified the broader context of Israeli occupation as a cause of the [Israel-Hamas] war. The Associated Press wrote that Palestinians are ‘in despair over a never-ending occupation in the West Bank and suffocating blockade of Gaza.’ Several human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, B’Tselem and Human Rights Watch have likened the Israeli occupation to apartheid, although supporters of Israel dispute this characterization.”
This quote, which seems to have an anti-Israel slant, is actually from the “Israeli policy” part of the background section on the main Wikipedia page documenting the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. One editor who has run afoul of Wikipedia’s policies in the past and, like all of the editors quoted here, requested anonymity to discuss the site’s practices, told me that Wikipedia’s coverage related to Oct. 7 as being rather anti-Israel “despite the best efforts of many pro-Israel and more unbiased editors.”
Dr. Shlomit Aharoni Lir wrote in a research paper published by the World Jewish Congress that the “Israel-Hamas war” Wikipedia article received 25,401 page views on Jan. 20 alone and that 70% of the time Wikipedia is the first result to pop up when people search for current events on Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo. More recent statistics show that the Israel-Hamas war article received nearly a million views throughout the month of April. Clearly, people are looking to Wikipedia for information on the war.
Statistics show that the Israel-Hamas war article received nearly a million views throughout the month of April. Clearly, people are looking to Wikipedia for information on the war.
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If the world got rid of all Palestinians, there wouldn’t be any left to complain.
Give Gaza back to Israel and airdrop the Palestinians into Afghanistan.
actually, Afghanistan would be a pretty good place, (second only perhaps to Antartica for its isolation from civilized human society), for the Fakestinian Arabs. Instead of sending free food and supplies into the gaza terrorists, let’s give the gaza terrorists free rides to Kabul
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