Do we really have to deal with antisemitic bastard behavior the day before
most of the world celebrates the birth of the world's most famous Jew?
I mean, seriously. This kind of racist POV-pushing is bad enough on
wikipedia, now we have to deal with it on the ML and at this time of year?
Shame on you.
Parker
On 12/23/06, Argis Rohat <argis.rohat(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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*
*Main article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>Allegations
of Israeli apartheid<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_Israeli_apartheid>
*
The phrase "Israeli apartheid" (or the terming of
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>Israel<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel>an
"apartheid state") is a controversial phrase used by some critics of
Israel, who compare Israel's treatment of
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>Palestinians<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians>with
the treatment of blacks in apartheid-era South Africa.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>[82]<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid#_note-Pilger>The
majority of academics and journalists who have commented on the term
are
reported to deplore its use
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>[83]<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid#_note-Adam>on
the grounds that it is historically inaccurate,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>antisemitic<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>[84]<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid#_note-Pulzer
propaganda,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>[83]<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid#_note-Adam>and
a
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>political
epithet<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_epithet>used to justify
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>terrorist attacks
against Israel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism>.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>[85]<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid#_note-Phillips>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>
-------
For one thing the sentence states as fact that the term "Israeli
apartheid"
is "*historically inaccurate,
*antisemitic<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>, propaganda,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>and a
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>political
epithet<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_epithet>used to justify
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>terrorist attacks
against Israel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism>.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid>" something a
wikipedia article should not be asserting. Secondly the paragaraph is not
neutral and strongly weighted with the view that Israeli apartheid is not
an
acceptable term.
Several editors have attempted to correct this paragraph's bias but they
have been blocked by a larger number of determined editors pushing a POV
against the term.
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