U.S., Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors to 'combat antisemitism'
U.S., Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors to 'combat antisemitism'
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.
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In June, a panel of Wikipedia editors declared the Anti-Defamation League a “generally unreliable” source of information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, limiting when the organization can be cited in Wikipedia articles. And there was an outcry this fall among some Jewish scholars and pro-Israel activists over edits to Wikipedia’s entry for Zionism to add references to “colonization.”
Wikipedia has also recently drawn ire from right-wing figures including Elon Musk, the billionaire who has been by President-elect Trump’s side during much of the transition. Musk posted on X (formerly Twitter) in December: “Stop donating to Wokepedia.”
A Heritage Foundation spokesperson said she was not able to answer questions about the organization’s work related to Wikipedia, which editors it was seeking to identify or how it sought to “target” them. The Wikimedia Foundation, which provides the infrastructure for Wikipedia, declined to comment.
The Heritage Foundation sent the pitch deck outlining the Wikipedia initiative to Jewish foundations and other prospective supporters of Project Esther, its roadmap for fighting antisemitism and anti-Zionism. The slideshow says the group’s “targeting methodologies” would include creating fake Wikipedia user accounts to try to trick editors into identifying themselves by sharing personal information or clicking on malicious tracking links that can identify people who click on them. It is unclear whether this has begun.
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An Israeli themselves accurately summed up what the Israeli state represents: "Rhodesia with nukes." There is no redemption for the colonialist geonicide apartheid state.
This is about targeting Wikipedia editrors, Israel is here just a pretext.
The article specifically stated that the editors are being targeted for "antisemitism" due to mentions of colonialism and genocide. What I said was relevant to the discussion.
Their point is that the Heritage Foundation's real purpose is to target Wikipedia editors, not address antisemitism. HF doesn't really give a shit, but it's a convenient pretext for starting to go after editors.
At its core this has nothing to do with Israel, the Heritage Foundation is only using that as a pretext to subvert Wikipedia. Wikipedia is at present a source of evidence-based information that often runs counter to the far-right lies they want you to believe.
"An Israeli", sure buddy. Reminds me of Fox News "some people say".
Israeli Jews are not predominately white, are one of the native peoples of the land, are the majority, not the minority in the country, there's an Israeli Arab supreme court judge and Israeli Arabs have full voting rights and parliamentary representation that reflects their portion of the population. They are being discriminated against, but equaling this to Rhodesia is preposterous. It's more akin to how e.g. Latinos are being discriminated against in the US or Turks in Germany.
colonialist geonicide [sic] apartheid state
Which country is Israel a colony of? This has to be the least efficient genocide in history, given that Palestinian population growth is outpacing Israeli population growth ever since it has been measured, even during this war. And the apartheid claim is ridiculous due to the aforementioned legal rights Israeli Arab citizens have.
Zionist bot is obvious
Sure, the big Jewish world conspiracy is paying me 5 billion shekels per comment. The only possible explanation.