On 23/12/06, Argis Rohat <argis.rohat(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry, let's try this again:
This is the entire passage under the heading "Israel" in the article
"Allegations of apartheid"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid
Does any objective person consider it to be NPOV?
ISRAEL
"The phrase "Israeli apartheid" (or the terming of Israel an
"apartheid state") is a controversial phrase used by some critics of
Israel, who compare Israel's treatment of Palestinians with the
treatment of blacks in apartheid-era South Africa. The majority of
academics and journalists who have commented on the term are reported
to deplore its use
on the grounds that it is historically inaccurate, antisemitic,
propaganda, and a political epithet used to justify terrorist attacks
against Israel.
We have many articles detailing contentious labels applied by some
people from a particular POV. To describe these labels
encyclopaedically, to report them, as we do, is not showing POV
ourselves.
Take a look at [[List of ethnic slurs]]: the reporting of these terms
does not necessitate an institutional belief in any one of them.
--
Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)