Palestinians prepare to battle 'Zionist editing' on Wikipedia

Not everybody in the world knows the truth about Israel and their oppression of the Palestinian people, but more and more understand this every day. Because of this, Israeli propaganda will not take root and flourish as it has in the past. The very act of proclaiming that Israel will engage in a widespread "PR" effort will arouse resentment in people. Propaganda, and it's less offensive cousin, PR, is simply an attempt to manipulate people and their minds and opinions. People understand this and they don't like the idea of being manipulated. The sort of things that work are real things. Israel should engage in building homes for Palestinians, improve their infrastructure, give them jobs with a fair wage, etc. These things can be easily done on a small scale and will make a hugePR splash. It will likely even fool people who don't know the truth. Rather than make a small investment with a huge impact, Israel will continue to export double talk and lies and spin which will only work against them. Whoever thought that these people were smart?

The battle began a good while ago; Arabs have been weaving a web of lies which the international anti-Israel movement is only to happy to accept as gospel's truth. Arabs will have no problem making Wikipedia pages more pro Palestinians- they will get lots of help from people, including Israelis, who will be more then ready to help propagate the false Palestinian narrative dished out these past 60 years. It will be interesting to see if they will discuss in these pages how their misery has been self-inflicted, how they have cleverly diverted attention from their corrupted leaders, totalitarian rule and economic failures, all of their own making. Will they ever acknowledge that their Arab brothers have manipulated them, stoking the fire of hatred, encouraging the Palestinians to play the victim role so that the game could go on and on? Such a pity that the Arabs did not accept the UN's 1947 two-state partition plan – all the terrible wars and misery on both sides could have been avoided. Instead, Israel continues to be subjected to relentless hatred and threats of annihilation, and is left alone to fight the battle of all battles – survival of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel.

Ideologues, who like their Zionist analogs who were touting their efforts to ideologically cleanse Wikipedia. It is clear they don't have a clue how the Wikipedia is edited, how feckless and futile their efforts are and will be.

enmity to Israel, instead of being the beacon of rapprochement and reconciliation? Why it always the Palestinian or the Egyptian associations of journalists, lawyers, writers etc that are the staunchest opponents of the peace with Israel? Why this cheap demagogery? Do they prefer a war?

He should focus on video, rather than words. One short video of incidents by settlers is worth more than any amount of words, especially from a source no-one relies on now. Then the agencies could pick up the stories. Remember 'shamutra' ? All we get are video of the wall demos, who are seen as protesters and so it doesn't have the same impact as everyday disrespect. IDF don't have any opinion-swaying footage to support Israel's aim, but they know video is gold-dust and still have a go via their youtube account. The amount of video footage from the West Bank or Gaza is woeful.

The new generation of information age "warriors" - I'm sure it's coming to a theater near you. There are only so many ways one can twist facts before they simply break...

For it to be valid in Wiki, it must be sourced. Only primary sources are credible. Any repository, or dissemination of of primary source material is as valid as Wiki. Perhaps more so when one cares to take the time to actually read through documents. The Hasbara version of UNSC Res 242 is a laugh... http://wp.me/PDB7k-6r

rather than the history which palestinian propagandists would love to have us all ignore and forget,....if it were up to these folks , muchlike the the religious zealots in the us, no one would ever know about much of history because it would be erased, distorted, and re-written despite all the data, the sources,and the evidence . All this would be done as a matter of convenience and to reconcile all the insecurities of said zealots . Please , bring it on and you will lose

Israel and it,s apologists are speading the truth and Palestinians are spreading terror. Yup--that will be the narrative. Remember Palestinian boycotts are "Economic terrorism --also different from Israel withholding Palestinian money. The zionist mind is a great contribution to science---if one could only open it up.

Wikipedia relies on the wisdom of crowds for the impartiality and reliability of its content. This concept fails when a topic generates either too little or too much enthusiasm: a) if the subject is so specialised that no crowd can be generated b) if the subject is so contentious that impartiality is sacrificed. Maybe one day Wikipedia will implement an more appropriate model to handle these two cases. In the meanwhile, we should look elsewhere for useful encyclapedic information, or even informed opinion regarding anything bearing on the legitimacy of Israel and Palestine.

Interesting choice of words. One needs to tell him there's a backroom for conversations where facts are presented, instead of vandalizing Wikipedia.

99% of Jews don't know both the standard US aworld history reference, An Encyclopedia of World History by Prof Dr William Langer of Harvard as well as the Cambridge HIstory of Poland to 1939 are full of anti-Semitic cracks, as was a mystery novel by Elisabeth Peterson, and the absence by ommission of the pre-Roman Jewish kingdoms in 99% of the maps in Colleen McCulloch's novels of ancient Rome. I don't support 95% of what the "settlers" do, but considering the violent anti-Semitism, let alone biased attacks on Israel from even Jewish professors at Oxford and even amongst Jewish elected officials, I can't say anything about "good job" to any Jews who want to defend Jewish views or the FACTS in online reference sources. I have, for too long, watched anti-semitic, including self-hating Jews write lies about Jews, Judaism and Jewish history not to be happy someone is doing something to redress the outrageous anti-Semitic slant of too much "generally accepted" stanard history reference sources.

Wikipedia is no longer a trusted resource anyway. Why waste time and effort? What you must do to counter is do as the zionists do and get thousands of Blog sites and script them to automatically update for the same content. They spam the search engines and get top placement on all subjects. This is what you must go after. Wikipedia is no longer a trusted source for the reason that it can be edited by any shmuck with a keyboard

You people are just pathetic .

United against Knowledge. United against Truth.

The Palestinian supporters are already doing fine. Example: Gaza Flotilla Raid. It reads like it was written by IHH. There is no mention of BBC Panorama in the discussion of media. Any attempts to edit result in return to within minutes to Turkish version. The Left already owns Wiki.

Wikipedia is very much pro-Palestinian, and there are very few Wikipedia pages that are in any way supportive of Israel, Judaism or Zionism. Any attempt to modify a page to reflect Israeli perspectives, is reverted back to its original form, as soon as the page is edited and saved. For example, just try and to make any changes to the pages of Sinn Feinn or Mogadishu, for example, and see how long the changes stay put.

the wiki is filled with zionists trying to distort information.

Positive step although following the lead of the likes of the settlers should not have been the case. For everything done do ensure the documentation is credible and properly put together. World wide fortified empathy should be an assured result for all such efforts.

The Palestinian viewpoint is clearly supported by the overwhelming body of facts, international law, and basic morals. All you need to do is make sure these are expressed, particularly the facts. You do not need to write "slanted" articles or ignore unfavorable facts; this would hurt your credibility. Leave the disingenuous arguments to the pro-occupation camp, which does not have facts on its side.

I realize these guys are just responding to the settlers' attempts to spin wikipedia to their perspective, but they're both missing the point. wikipedia isn't wrong because it doesn't reflect your perspective. the point of it is that it's not supposed to have any perspective, just the straightforward facts.

As Wikipedia is very anti-Palestinian and controlled rather an open platform. Most articles related to Palestine are clearly linked to Israel and provide unreliable information. Even if you go and edit, you will immediately get a warning of plagirism. I think a campaign like this would let Wikipedia's control on these articles down!

to change the Worlds perception of Israel. Get real!

Great initiative, this had to happen a long time ago, but it is never to late.

What is best, a war with words or weapons ....