‘Idea is not to make Wikipedia rightist but for it to include our point of view,’ Naftali Bennett, director of the Yesha Council says.
“Point of view” in Wikipedia? But encyclopedias were supposed to be neutral…
For years now, Wikipedia has been a fierce battleground between the Israeli right and left. One key battle was over the entry for Bil’in and whether the weekly struggle at that village near the security fence should be described as violent.
Another battle was over the description of the Ariel University Center. Was it “the largest public college in Israel”? Or should an institution in Ariel not be considered as being in Israel? So a compromise was reached: “the largest Israeli public college.”
Now the Yesha Council of settlements and another right-wing group, Israel Sheli, are embarking on a Wikipedia battle: Zionist editing on the Web-based encyclopedia. The first course was held yesterday in Jerusalem.
“The idea is not to make Wikipedia rightist but for it to include our point of view,” said Naftali Bennett, the director of the Yesha Council.
“The Internet is not managed well enough, and Israel’s position there is appalling. Take for example the Turkish flotilla [to Gaza]. During the first hours we were nowhere to be found. In those first hours millions of people typed the words Gaza-bound flotilla and read what was written on Wikipedia.”
The course was designed to teach how to register for, contribute to and edit for Wikipedia.
The organizers’ aim was twofold: to affect Israeli public opinion by having people who share their ideological viewpoint take part in writing and editing for the Hebrew version, and to write in English so Israel’s image can be bolstered abroad.
The Yesha Council also announced a prize for the “Best Zionist Editor” – the person who over the next four years incorporates the most “Zionist” changes in the encyclopedia. That lucky encyclopedist will receive a trip in a hot-air balloon over Israel.
Some 50 people took part in the course, nearly all of them religious and many from settlements. Ruthie Avraham, who lives in Beit El and works in media, said she already knew the subject of the first Wikipedia entry she planned to write about.
“The entry on Jewish family,” she said. “The first sentence will be that the Jewish family is the ultimate response to the Western crisis of isolation and lack of affection.”
According to Einat Bornstein, another participant in the course, “I came here to have an impact. I think people are afraid to write rightist responses.”
She didn’t hesitate when asked about the first entry she intends to contribute to: Hanin Zuabi, the Arab MK who took part in the flotilla. “And also about the Turkish flotilla and the settlements and the settlement enterprise.”
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All we have is the Khazar/Jew’s point of view.
They dont even allow Jesus to have His point of view.
Hmm, this is racism.
The Jewish Master Race has gone too far.
They must be stopped before they kill all human races…
Jews don’t worship Jesus, but as a man, he was most certainly allowed to have a point of view. Jesus was killed by Pontious Pilot. IF he had chosen Jesus to live, he would never have allowed a culture of people that HE detested, to make the decision of whether or not another Jew would live or die. The charade of having the Jews choose was a piece psychological warfare, by the Romans, as a means of dividing an enemy. The Romans believed that Jesus followers would cause the Jews to be distracted and kept busy by their rioting
Jesus was never in a situation that treated him fairly, and it was because of his belief that he was the son of God. AND, IF he WAS the son of God, that only proves he never had a fair chance! The son of God would be in a grossly unfair situation, having been put there BY God, HIMSELF.
The Jews may have turned Jesus over to the Romans, but it would have been with the belief that he would be punished. They would never have turned another Jew over, if they realized that he would be tortured and/or put to death. The Jewish people don’t crucify, and they’d never have deliberately given over another Jew to that kind of death sentence. They’d have stoned criminals, that’s true, but that was only after said criminal was gotten so stoned on something so as to be insensible & already beyond pain, before the first stone was ever thrown!
That the Jews use stoning as their chosen method of capital punishment we learn from Jesus, when he say “Let him without sin cast the first stone”, when he came upon Mary Magdalen.