Why not? Not everyone celebrates Christmas; the majority of the world is not Christian. And issues on Wikipedia are not going to take a holiday regardless. And I won't even touch this statement -- "the birth of the world's most famous Jew"
-- Tariq Ab- Jo- Tu-
Parker Peters wrote:
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@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_apartheidAllegations of Israeli apartheid< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_Israeli_apartheid%3E
The phrase "Israeli apartheid" (or the terming of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheidIsrael< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%3Ean "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_apartheidPalestinians< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians%3Ewith 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%3EThe 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%3Eon the grounds that it is historically inaccurate, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheidantisemitic< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism%3E 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%3Eand a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheidpolitical epithethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_epithetused to justify http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheidterrorist 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%3E
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid
For one thing the sentence states as fact that the term "Israeli apartheid" is "*historically inaccurate, *antisemitichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheid, propaganda, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheidand a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheidpolitical epithethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_epithetused to justify http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_apartheidterrorist 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. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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