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Wikipedia’s Quiet Revolution: How a Coordinated Group of Editors Reshaped the Israeli-Palestinian Narrative (www.algemeiner.com)

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The group has also reportedly sanitized articles on controversial historical figures, including those with ties to Nazi Germany such as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, as well as diluting mentions of human rights abuses by the Iranian regime.

In an article on “Jews,” for example, an editor removed the phrase “Land of Israel” from a key sentence on the origin of Jewish people. The article’s short description (that appears on search results) was changed from “Ethnoreligious group and nation from the Levant” to “Ethnoreligious group and cultural community.”

“Though subtle, the implication is significant: unlike nations, ‘cultural communities’ don’t require, or warrant, their own states,” Rindsberg wrote in his report.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The author themselves is already conflating nation and country by stating that a 'nation' requires territory. While the Jewish people are a 'nation' in the sociological sense, the author is using the term in its political sense, as would apply to the subset of Jews who are Zionists, rather than the Jewish people as a whole.

The author is misleading readers by painting the editors as having the goal of denying the right of the Jewish people to territory. Unlike Zionism, it is not a nation with an inherent political basis, but rather one with strong cultural and ethnic ties.