On May 20, 2006, at 2:13 AM, abu hamza wrote:
hi Philip, like i said, the few references we have on shipmans background claim him to be jewish
Those references are *not reliable*. It's unacceptable to put unreliable information in the wiki, period.
If it was reliably established that he was Jewish, there would be no problem. Since it isn't reliably established, reporting that he was Jewish, or that he might be Jewish, constitutes anti-Semitism.
Why are you so hell-bent on making this poorly-supported case that he is Jewish, anyway?