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On July 25, after a couple of months of debate, the Wikipedia entry "Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Israeli attack on Gaza" was changed to "Gaza genocide." This was done despite the fact that the International Court of Justice in the Hague has not made an official ruling on the matter, in the wake of South Africa's petition to the court alleging that Israel is committing or facilitating genocide in Gaza.

The Los Angeles-based Jewish Journal, which followed the Wikipedia discussion and vote, wrote that the editors who voted on this change claimed to be relying on an academic consensus based on statements of experts on genocide, human rights, human rights law and Holocaust historians.

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[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 177 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Inb4 ‘WIKIPEDIA IS HAMAS!!’ allegations start being thrown

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 82 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

They'll start a new wiki like conservatives did. Call it Zionedia.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this is perfect though. Because it takes them away from slowing down progress on wikipedia and instead wastes their time on something with shit SEO.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 month ago

And the nazis will hopefully leave to go there as well

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It already exists. Conservapedia

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Given enough time, we're gonna end up with two flavors of absolutely everything: normal, and racism incarnate

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Wikipedia headquarters and the editor under school in Gaza?

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 month ago

Haven't they been doing that since wiki said adl wasn't a good source?