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Source: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/wikipedia-jewish-problem
Wikipedia's Jewish Problem
(Tablet) Izabella Tabarovsky - In June, Wikipedia ranked the fifth-most-visited site worldwide, outranked only by Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. For many students and scholars, it serves as a starting point for research. Yet Wikipedia's articles are now badly distorted, feeding billions of people dangerously skewed narratives about Jews, Jewish history, Israel, Zionism, and contemporary threats to Jewish lives. In a World Jewish Congress report released in March, Dr. Shlomit Aharoni Nir documents numerous ways in which relevant Wikipedia entries have become de facto anti-Israel propaganda. From biased framing to omissions of key facts to stressing anti-Israel examples while ignoring the Israeli side of the story, to promoting fringe academic perspectives on Zionism - Wikipedia's editors and administrators have actively worked to subvert the site's neutrality. Today, Jewish people and the Jewish story are under an unprecedented global assault, and Wikipedia is being used as a weapon in this war. If one of the world's most influential conduits of knowledge decides it wants to turn itself into the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, that's its prerogative. The rest of us need to get informed, warn the world about it, and demand accountability.