by Jeff Davis. The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz tells us “For years now, Wikipedia has been a fierce battleground between the Israeli right and left. One key battle was over the entry for Bil’in and whether the weekly struggle at that village near the security fence should be described as violent. Another battle was over the description of the Ariel University Center. Was it ‘the largest public college in Israel?’ Or should an institution in Ariel not be considered as being in Israel? So a compromise was reached: ‘the largest Israeli public college.’ ”
Ariel is an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank, but that isn’t the only Israeli topic to be edited on the Internet. Good luck finding a detailed honest account of the Jenin Massacre, including the Israeli refusal to allow UN inspectors to inspect the rubble of that massacre. If you type in “Jenin Massacre”, you’ll find it renamed the “Battle of Jenin” and the article talks of “rumors” of a mass slaughter of hundreds to thousands of Palestinian civilians. If there were no mass slaughter, why did Israel refuse to allow in UN inspectors?
The attack on the USS Liberty is similarly prone toward censorship even though the captain of the ship says that the Israelis deliberately attacked and mass murdered 34 Americans. If you type in “Attack on the USS Liberty”, it morphs into “The USS Liberty Incident” and the Wikipedia article starts off by noting that the US Government has (under tremendous Jewish pressure) classified the incident as a mistake. The survivors of the attack on the Liberty would have some choice words to say about that bit of dishonesty.
Ha’aretz goes on: “Now the Yesha Council of settlements and another right-wing group, Israel Sheli, are embarking on a Wikipedia battle: Zionist editing on the Web-based encyclopedia. The first course was held yesterday in Jerusalem. ‘The idea is not to make Wikipedia rightist but for it to include our point of view,’ said Naftali Bennett, the director of the Yesha Council. ‘The Internet is not managed well enough, and Israel’s position there is appalling. Take for example the Turkish flotilla [to Gaza]. During the first hours we were nowhere to be found. In those first hours millions of people typed the words Gaza-bound flotilla and read what was written on Wikipedia.'”
In other words, the Internet is something the Jews do not control and the Jews consider this a problem.
The article notes “The course was designed to teach how to register for, contribute to and edit for Wikipedia. The organizers’ aim was twofold: to affect Israeli public opinion by having people who share their ideological viewpoint take part in writing and editing for the Hebrew version, and to write in English so Israel’s image can be bolstered abroad. The Yesha Council also announced a prize for the ‘Best Zionist Editor’ – the person who over the next four years incorporates the most Zionist changes in the encyclopedia. That lucky encyclopedist will receive a trip in a hot-air balloon over Israel.”
This has always been the problem with Wikipedia: it lends itself to ideological distortion and propaganda on the part of the people who control it. They also control who is allowed to make posts and edits, and who are also allowed the even more important power of deleting the work of others.
One source notes “the (Wikipedia) site was hosted on the servers of Bomis, Inc., a company mostly owned by Jimmy Wales, who currently funds part of the site’s operational costs. With the announcement of the Wikimedia Foundation on June 20, 2003, the ownership of all domain names as well as the technical equipment was transferred to the Foundation. The site is run by the community of Wikipedians guided by the principles articulated by Jimmy Wales, including, for example, an adherence to a neutral point of view.”
Unfortunately a “neutral” point of view can mean perpetuating propaganda that most people grew up with in regards to things like Diversity, racial equality, Israel and the Holocaust. Also, the current proprietor is going to be susceptible to the extreme pressure tactics that the Jews often use. If there are squeals of “antisemitism” whenever a truthful article, which the Jews don’t like is added to Wikipedia, there’s a good chance factual information will be deleted especially if these Israeli-trained editors work their way up the ladder at Wikipedia.
On the plus side, we can also work our way up as editors at Wikipedia to counter the organized effort by the Israelis.
