[WikiEN-l] POV on Israel

Gurch matthew.britton at btinternet.com
Sat Dec 23 09:57:34 UTC 2006


Argis Rohat wrote:
> 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.

Only if you ignore the phrase "The majority of academics and journalists 
who have commented on the term are reported to deplore its use on the 
grounds that...". It's not the best wording, I agree. Is it better now?

-Gurch



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