[WikiEN-l] POV on Israel

[Argis Rohat]

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.

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For one thing the sentence states as fact that the term "Israeli
apartheid" is "historically inaccurate, antisemitic, propaganda, and a
political epithet used to justify terrorist attacks against Israel"
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.