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Pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Tuesday April 22, 2008 13:48author by David L - IPSC (personal capacity) Report this post to the editors

A pro-Israel pressure group is orchestrating a secret, long-term campaign to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9474.shtml

author by iosafpublication date Wed Apr 23, 2008 22:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Electronic Intifada has in the article linked to through the above other press piece, alledged that a secretive [but not closed] email list associated with "CAMERA" or with "the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting". On March 13th they called for 10 volunteers and apparently got 50, who they directed to another "secretive" [but not closed] email list.
http://electronicintifada.net/downloads/pdf/080421-came...a.pdf

That second email list was (& is) a Google hosted discussion group.
http://groups.google.com/group/isra-pedia?hl=en

".........Among the list members was "Isra Guy," who Electronic Intifada identified as Wikipedia user "Zeq," a longtime contributor to Israeli-Palestinian conflict articles......."

& so my newsworthy update to this story is that since 18h30 GMT the 23rd of the 4th month, (Jordi day of Books & Roses the patron aint of Catalonia) Mr Zeq has been removed from wikipedia for one year.

You can read the whole thing & plausibly trace the process here :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%2...2C_no

You might also like to know Mr Zeq is the owner of this email - zeqzeq2@yahoo.com which verifies the Electronic Intifida allegations.
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For those who are interested in the language used by cyber people to describe this kind of abuse of open publishing - the buzz word is meatpuppet solicitation
(*) he will though be allowed to tinker about with articles unrelated to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
& who knows, maybe he will redeem himself that way by writing something useful..,

author by Philpublication date Wed Apr 23, 2008 23:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yeh, unbelievable Stuff, we heard already.

don't you read the message board you are posting on ?

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87164&comment_limit=0&c...26814

author by iosafpublication date Thu Apr 24, 2008 15:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The importance of impartiality of encyclopedia pages such as Wikipedia on subjects such as the Israel / Palestinian conflict should not escape those who seek any of the supposed solutions & think those solutions rely on a well-informed public. Which is why there is as little propaganda value for the IPSC as there is for Wikipedia in keeping the news "fresh".

Accordingly the report on "Wikinews" which told this story will be deleted tomorrow. Unless of course someone has enough of an agenda to keep it alive.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Secret_Wikipedia_lobbying_c...leged

author by Philpublication date Thu Apr 24, 2008 16:22author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Anybody who ever did go to the likes of Wikipedia in the past or continues to do so now, in order to form an opinion on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is a dead loss and should stick well clear of things they dont understand. Wikipedia is a consistent source of pro-Israel Bias and will continue to be so 100% regardless of the outcome of this "revelation" .

 
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