Wikipedia banned eight volunteer editors from making changes to articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict, following a ruling on Thursday by the online encyclopedia’s Arbitration Committee.
In June, Wikipedia editors targeted the Anti-Defamation League, declaring it an “unreliable source” whose data could not be relied upon when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
When Wikipedia first announced disciplinary action against the Wikipedia editors, the ADL issued a press release praising the decision “in the wake of a massive effort by anti-Israel editors to spread misinformation and hate across the platform.”
ADL listed all but one of the banned anti-Israel editors. It named “Iskandar323,” “Selfstudier,” “Nableezy,” “Levivich” and “Nishidani” as “being part of a bad-faith campaign in an attempt t o undermine the credibility of ADL.”
I disagree entirely as the Palestinians are facing existential threat. Only one side is genocidal. Perhaps I am misreading your comment. If so, I apologize.
Yes only one side is genocidal I agree, only Israel. Not aware of any claims of genocide in Iran but they are still deeply evil against their own people and I’m not sure how trying to hide that in articles about human rights abuses in Iran is helpful to the Palestinian cause, it seems insulting to the people being abused in Iran. Israel is worse but why does that mean we cannot discuss any other countries abuses.
Disinformation is bad no matter which side it appears to be “helping”. It would be just as easy for the other side to intentionally spread disinformation on Wikipedia in order to discredit it.