What constitutes "Islamic terrorism"?
I saw, somewhat incredulously, that the 10/7 Hamas attack was not listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks . I asked the moderators if this was just an oversight. The answer was "no", and I was pointed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks/Archive_9#Should_Operation_Al-Aqsa_Flood_by_Hamas_included_in_the_list_of_Islamist_Terrorist_attacks?
Reading through all the contortions and sophistry of the "No's" has just left my mind reeling. I also came across this piece recently: https://www.thefp.com/p/wikipedia-anti-defamation-league-reliable-source . Truly depressing. If the English Wikipedia cannot be rid of bias, what hope do we have for any "source of truth"?
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Hi Susannah, Sorry for the delay, the system is not notifying me of comments for some reason even though the settings shows it should -- will talk to Sara about that. I, too, am very concerned about the actions of "Tech for Palestine" and other bad actors intent on distorting history. I've also come to the conclusion that with Wikipedia's moderation model, it's impossible for it to prevent such malicious attacks. This resulted in yet another case of the foxes guarding the henhouse. Unfortunately, really objective history online is hard to find. If I had to pick one source, it would be Brittanica, for example: https://www.britannica.com/place/Israel/History . But even there, "Palestine" is used to refer to the land of Canaan going back at least to 7000 BCE, and this is a total anachronism, which completely distorts historical discussions: "This discussion focuses primarily on the modern state of Israel. For treatment of earlier history and of the country in its regional context, see Palestine, history of." I still fail to understand how historians can continue this practice, regardless of how long it has been done. If they want to be completely apolitical and objective, they should just call it Canaan.