@ The Fanonite-
A 13 March action alert signed by Gilead Ini, a “Senior Research Analyst” at CAMERA, calls for “volunteers who can work as ‘editors’ to ensure” that Israel-related articles on Wikipedia are “free of bias and error, and include necessary facts and context.” However, subsequent communications indicate that the group not only wanted to keep the effort secret from the media, the public, and Wikipedia administrators, but that the material they intended to introduce included discredited claims that could smear Palestinians and Muslims and conceal Israel’s true history.
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Zeq has already made extensive edits to the Wikipedia article on Rachel Corrie, the American peace activist murdered by an Israeli soldier in the occupied Gaza Strip on 16 March 2003. As a result of these and other edits Zeq has himself been a controversial figure among Wikipedia editors, suggesting his own stealth tactics may not be working.
22 April, 2008 at 1:20 am
GOP politicians have been distorting Wikipedia articles for some time. I’m not surprised that other rightists are doing the same thing now.
22 April, 2008 at 1:59 am
I expect a lot of shenanigans goes on from lots of angles, but this tendency to secret organised manipulation of reality is a little marked among conservatives. It does suggest they know they can’t with their arguments on merit.
22 April, 2008 at 3:02 am
To be fair, there are those on the ultra left with a taste for this sort of thing too… but no other lobby seems to have the same organisational oomph as the pro-Israel lot.
22 April, 2008 at 3:47 am
Sounds like thereby hangs a tale(?!??)
Well yes they are keen I’ll give them that.