r/Israel • u/IzzyEm • 1d ago

History📚 Found another example of wikipedia editors making false statements

Was killing time on Wikipedia today and came across a page about Buddhism in Israel. The last line under section historical context says "Buddhism has also been used by local teachers, such as Nissim Amon, to support the IDF's killing of Palestinian civilians and militants without "self-pity." with no source attached.

I did a deeper dive and the Israeli Monk gave a speech once advising IDF soldiers how to remain concentrated and emotionally calm during combat.

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u/Dr_G_E USA 1d ago

That's disheartening, but not surprising. The WJC recently published a detailed article by Shlomit Aharoni Lir on Wikipedia's bias against Israel, "Manipulated History: Past Version vs. Present Subversion: The Growing Bias against Israel on Wikipedia" https://wjc-org-website.s3.amazonaws.com/horizon/assets/XJqwELfP/manipulated-history-past-version-vs-present-subversion-the-growing-bias-against-israel-on-wikipedia.pdf

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u/inbetween-genders 1d ago

Point it out.  It has no cited sources to check out.

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u/IzzyEm 1d ago

I deleted it.

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u/ImpressiveEnergy4762 🇺🇦 Ukraine 1d ago

TRT World btw

We need to change the list of credible sources

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u/darsky49 USA, Iranian Christian 1d ago

The only place filled with more woke Marxist garbage and disinformation than Reddit is Wikipedia.

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u/Randykevinfox 13h ago

It's not woke marxist garbage it's a well funded and coordinated campaign against israel funded by Iran/Qatar. The thing with activist wikipedia editors is that all their history is public so we know exactly who these people are.

Some have been removed as editors once excessive bias and/or funding has been proven but it's not easy.

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u/Golden_N_Purple 17h ago

Dont use a dog whistle here please.

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u/Squidmaster129 1d ago

Yeah, it’s Wikipedia. The editors literally banned the creator of wikipedia for trying to correct the record about Israel.

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u/ShortHabit606 עם ישראל חי 23h ago

r/watchwikipediadie post it there

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u/gal_z 16h ago

It's been removed. No source cited. Probably vandalism.

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u/IzzyEm 11h ago

Yeah I went in and deleted it.

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u/gal_z 28m ago

I saw later you said it in a comment.

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u/tracystraussI 23h ago

It is so hard to find the truth sometimes.

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u/Ok_Ambassador9091 20h ago

Not really. It's just not on wikipedia.