Wikipedia banned eight volunteer editors from making changes to articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict, following a ruling on Thursday by the online encyclopedia’s Arbitration Committee.
In June, Wikipedia editors targeted the Anti-Defamation League, declaring it an “unreliable source” whose data could not be relied upon when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
When Wikipedia first announced disciplinary action against the Wikipedia editors, the ADL issued a press release praising the decision “in the wake of a massive effort by anti-Israel editors to spread misinformation and hate across the platform.”
ADL listed all but one of the banned anti-Israel editors. It named “Iskandar323,” “Selfstudier,” “Nableezy,” “Levivich” and “Nishidani” as “being part of a bad-faith campaign in an attempt t o undermine the credibility of ADL.”
Perhaps, but I suspect that Wikipedia was looking for a reason to ban them to avoid problems with the ADL and US Government…
The founder, Jimmy, says his life was changed after reading Ayn Rand and considers himself an actual objectivist.
Take that as you will as a starting point.
If you want your starting point to be “Easy, intellectually dishonest answers because I don’t have the first fucking idea of how Wikipedia or its culture works or a desire to lift a finger to understand”, then great. A+. No notes.
That’s the foundational understanding people should have of this ArbCom decision I doubt you’ve even glanced at and that Jimmy Wales wouldn’t even have had tangential involvement with because why the fuck would he.
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Umm, so that actually does matter.
So you read and understand the decision, right? Or did you just run to Wikipedia’s article on Jimmy Wales, look at the ‘Political views’ section, and decide you were sufficiently informed to
poison the wellraise the alarm? Pretty bad form; I’ve heard that the Randian Zionist whatever-the-fuck-you-want-to-blanket-Wikipedia-as cabal has conspired to slander notable democratic socialist champion Jimmy Wales. Can’t trust shit you read there. I can’t believe you would sink that low with your sourcing.No, I know his views are kind of shitty already.
Umm, you accused me of sourcing information on the site he founded.
You seem tired. You might need a nap.
Yes!! And as we’ve established now, it’s run by the Randian Zionist etc. cabal. Why would you believe the filthy, propagandist lies published there smearing dear revolutionary Jimbo Wales?
(You’ve already turned this into a farce, so I’m going to treat it like one.)
Lol. I brought up real actual things in a techno oligarch state.
It matters.
No defence for the ADL portion of it but the rest of what they did seems deserving of a ban, I support the struggle of the Palestinians but the oppressed Iranians are just as deserving of international support, the regime is murdering unarmed protesters in the thousands, I don’t think deleting references to those human rights abuses furthers any positive cause.
I heard it was in the brazillions. Previously:
Thanks for sharing sources, liberals are exhausting
The government killed rioters that were armed by Mossad and gunning down cops and burning down military installations.
According to their geopolitical enemies, yes. But you’d think we’d see evidence if there was just hundreds. Please stop spreading imperialist narratives that are used right now to get our consent to bomb the hell out of children and other civilians.
I’m not American and don’t agree remotely with the American war against Iran to be clear, but the evidence spans countless difference sources going back decades, including UN fact finding missions, amnesty international etc, the same sources that have been considered trustworthy on proving Israel is committing genocide. I’m not using this as consent to bomb their children I oppose the bombing of Iran. We do not need to take a single side and try to hide all evidence of wrongdoing by that side, the Iranian regime is a brutal dictatorship and the USA is killing children in Iran I do not see why both cannot be true.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/iran-massacre-of-protesters-demands-global-diplomatic-action-to-signal-an-end-to-impunity/
Amnesty lied in the past to support US imperialism, for example they claimed Gaddafi used mass rape as a tool for control (which was false), they also claimed that the Iraqi army disconnected over a hundred newborns from a hospital in Kuwait (which was also false), look at what happened to Iraq and Libya because of this kind of bullshit.
Iran is far from perfect but you don’t see this hyperfixation on other countries that are demonstrably worse even though they don’t face massive economic sanctions (like Saudi Arabia and other GCC). And again, the US and its allies don’t care about the genocide of Muslims, but we’re supposed to believe they care about Iranians? And about Iranian women? The people who opened the war by killing over a hundred schoolgirls? Is that the freedom you envision?
Again, if you’re gonna side with imperialist narratives we want evidence. Evidence like footage. Show me the footage of at least a dozen peaceful protestors in iran being killed by their evil government, because I haven’t found any of that. On the other hand I’ve seen footage of rioters (who weren’t peaceful at all) murdering civilians and setting mosques on fire. And again, I don’t particularly like the Iranian government, but my feelings about that don’t matter at all here, we’re talking about a country resisting an imperial war of aggression after surviving decades of imperialist economic warfare. Do you not know that western economic sanctions kill over half a million people wolrdwide every year? If not this war, is that what you support? Or how do you suggest we go about helping Iranians?
There are countless sources within the link I posted including the footage you asked for. This has been independently verified by many involved organisations but I’m sure you will move the goalposts and say for whatever reason all that footage of peaceful protesters being killed isnt valid.
Regardless, I am not hyperfixated on Iran, I just am opposing wiki editors deleting evidence of their atrocities because all human rights offenses deserve to be covered. I do believe the abuses in Iran like you say are being used by America to justify their illegal invasion, yet I don’t believe that justifies trying to erase evidence of the abuses by Iran.
I care about the genocide of Muslims, so I don’t understand why you are talking to me as if I am America. I care about the Iranians and Iranian women, I am sickened by what America has done in Iran in recent weeks. I am not asking you to believe the USA gov cares about the Iranians, i don’t believe they do either. We should care about every single injustice against the innocent worldwide.
I cared about what Iran has been doing to their people long before America started bombing them, I’m not going to suddenly flip my opinion on that and support suppressing information about the atrocities the Iranian regime is committing due to recent events. I don’t know why you assume my critique of the dictatorship regime in Iran equates in any way to support of America.
Another strong source is the UN, again you might have complaints with them but please read these sources before dismissing them, you don’t have to take either the UN or amnesty internationals word for it, both have provided significant evidence in these documents. https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166737
I looked at the stuff shared in the article, which showcases people previously shot or otherwise hurt, which isn’t the same thing as a video showcasing the government shooting into a crowd or prosecuting peaceful protestors. The narrative you’re promoting isn’t corroborated by the evidence you’re sharing. The only thing I can verify with that is that people indeed got hurt, which even the Iranian government acknowledges.
The organizations that “independently verified” these claims are western backed NGOs, regardless of the intentions of those working there they serve their donors, who have itched to plunder Iran for decades.
Here’s the ArbCom discussion from last year; I haven’t read it yet, but then I guarantee neither has anyone here. You could be the first.
Thank you for that source it has a lot of great info that I didn’t get from any of the news coverage