Dissident Veteran For Peace: Insight into Wikipedia's Pro-Israel Bias

Dissident Veteran For Peace

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." —Alexis de Tocquevile. Democracy in America, Book I, Chapter XV.

With a nod to the Most Rev. Dom Helder Camara: When I support Palestinians some call me an 'anti-Semite', when I try to explain why I stand in solidarity with Palestinians they call me a Nazi.

"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." —Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.)

"... no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end." —character of O'Brien in 1984, part 3, ch. 3 by George Orwell.

"Every prophet has realized that nobody loves you for being the enemy of their illusions. Every prophet has realized that most of us want peace at any price as long as the peace is ours and somebody else pays the price. That is why the prophet Jeremiah said, ' "Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace,' ..." —The Rev. William Sloane Coffin. "Not to Bring Peace, But a Sword."

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Insight into Wikipedia's Pro-Israel Bias

The video below is from an August 2010 story by the Israeli Zionist media organization Arutz Sheva. If the video disappears you can also try to watch it here.Outside Israel the story seemingly got mainstream coverage only in "Wikipedia editing courses launched by Zionist groups" in the Guardian (UK) but it did merit lengthy discussion in a NY Times blog post entitled "Wikipedia Editing for Zionists".

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Labels: hasbara, Israel, media, video, Wikipedia

# posted by VFPDissident @ 5/12/2012 07:19:00 PM

Comments:

I am not understanding your headline.

What I am seeing is trainings on how to use Wikipedia, not that Wikipedia has bias.

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Mark : Monday, May 14, 2012 11:04:00 AM

In the first 40 seconds of the video Naftali Bennett says the goal of the training is to make sure the relevant articles in Wikipedia are "Zionist in nature". That is the insight into the bias. That there is a bias is, admittedly, not established in the post but if you believe that the concerted, organized efforts of the Israeli gov't and Zionist NGOs has no impact then I have a bridge on the Jordan River I'd like to sell you.

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VFPDissident : Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:29:00 PM