{"id":47656,"date":"2019-08-06T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T14:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47656"},"modified":"2019-08-06T09:40:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T14:40:56","slug":"how-a-small-group-of-pro-israel-activists-blacklisted-mintpress-on-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47656","title":{"rendered":"How a Small Group of Pro-Israel Activists Blacklisted MintPress on Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/pro-israel-activists-blacklist-mintpress-wikipedia\/261022\/\">How a Small Group of Pro-Israel Activists Blacklisted MintPress on Wikipedia\t<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For over ten years, Wikipedia has been a key focus of right-leaning, pro-Israel groups that have effectively weaponized the online encyclopedia as a means of controlling the narrative when it comes to the state of Israel\u2019s more than 50-year-long military occupation of Palestine.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>F<\/strong>or over a decade, pro-Israel and ultra-nationalist Israeli settler groups have sought to weaponize the popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, through concerted&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/content\/ei-exclusive-pro-israel-groups-plan-rewrite-history-wikipedia\/7472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">covert editing campaigns<\/a>, offering&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/1.5101511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wikipedia editing courses<\/a>&nbsp;to West Bank settlers and even&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/National-News\/Education-Ministry-and-Wikipedia-collaborate-to-write-content-for-the-internet-site-355890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">formal alliances<\/a>between Israel and Wikipedia to allow Israelis to create and edit content in a variety of languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, this alliance between pro-Israel partisans and Wikipedia has stepped up, largely in response to the growth of the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to pressure Israel to comply with international law with respect to occupied Palestine and the blockaded Gaza Strip. As a consequence, news outlets that consistently report on the success of BDS, such as&nbsp;<em>MintPress News<\/em>, have been targeted on Wikipedia by such partisans, who recently succeeded in blacklisting&nbsp;<em>MintPress<\/em>&nbsp;as a \u201creliable source\u201d on the online encyclopedia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In early June, a small number of partisan Wikipedia editors privately voted to blacklist\u00a0<em>MintPress News<\/em>\u00a0from use as a source on the online encyclopedia website\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources\/Noticeboard\/Archive_268#RfC:_MintPress_News\" target=\"_blank\">at the behest<\/a>\u00a0of a Wikipedia editor who took issue with\u00a0<em>MintPress<\/em>\u2019 coverage of current events in Venezuela and Syria. At no point was\u00a0<em>MintPress<\/em>\u00a0ever asked to comment or allowed to respond to any of the allegations made and\u00a0<em>MintPress<\/em>\u00a0is unable to appeal the decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a Small Group of Pro-Israel Activists Blacklisted MintPress on Wikipedia For over ten years, Wikipedia has been a key focus of right-leaning, pro-Israel groups that have effectively weaponized the online encyclopedia as a means of controlling the narrative when it comes to the state of Israel\u2019s more than 50-year-long military occupation of Palestine.\u00a0 For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26463,1049,23910,14545,1779,1048,26464,22021,18056],"class_list":["post-47656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-blacklisted","tag-israel","tag-mint-press-news","tag-narrative-control","tag-narratives","tag-palestine","tag-pro-israel-activism","tag-whitney-webb","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47657,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47656\/revisions\/47657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}