Wikipedia Attacks German Antisemitism Fight

Lead section of Wikipedia's newly created article on Germany's antisemitism fight

Wikipedia struck a blow for antisemitism today. No, not against antisemitism, but in favor of it, smearing German efforts to fight antisemitism—and doing so on Wikipedia's front page. 

The online encyclopedia's legions of anti-Zionist editors have long been poisoning Wikipedia to promote a key part of the anti-Israel agenda: that the fight against antisemitism is bogus where anti-Zionists are concerned, and that most purported antisemites are actually just being "critical of Israel." 

Today they scored a big victory in that effort, promoting their agenda right on Wikipedia's highly-trafficked Main Page. 

The Main Page today (permalink) says the following in its "Did you know" section:

[Did you know]... that one researcher found that nearly a third of the people cancelled over antisemitism allegations in Germany have been Jews?

The "Do you know" section showcases excerpts from newly created articles, and drives enormous traffic over to the articles mentioned. This one features an article created a few weeks ago titled "Anti-antisemitism in Germany." If you click over there you find that it is an anti-Zionist polemic that is intensely critical of the German opposition to antisemitism. 

The vast majority of that article is an outright attack on the German antisemitism fight, containing little that actually describes the antisemitism problem in Germany, which has become a serious problem since Oct. 7, and instead is devoted to bashing efforts to counter it. 

That's a blatant violation of Wikipedia neutrality rules, but as I have pointed out before, Wikipedia policies do not apply to the "Wikipedia flood" of anti-Israel, anti-Zionist and sometimes antisemitic editors.  

Half the lead of the article consists of this anti-Zionist diatribe:

Controversially, the German government officially classifies the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, the accusation that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, and the depiction of Israel as a colonial or settler-colonial entity, as antisemitic. Many of those arrested and cancelled in Germany over allegations of antisemitism have been Jews critical of Israel's policies.

Further down in the article you can see how thoroughly the article has been poisoned by anti-Zionist editors in the "Ideology," "Deplatforming and arrest of Jews" and "Reception" sections, which comprise most of the article.  

The "Deplatforming" section portrays the fight against German antisemitism as so broken that it targets innocent Jews who are outraged by that terrible regime over there in Israel. 

To the right is a photo and caption that drives home the anti-Zionist point with all the subtlety of a hydrogen bomb. Beneath a photograph of a sign saying "Free Palestine From German Guilt" is the following anti-Zionist caption:

German guilt over the Holocaust motivates unquestioning support for Israel, which has led to Jews voicing criticism of Israel being accused of antisemitism; Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham said in response to such accusations, "If this is Germany's way of dealing with its guilt over the Holocaust, they are emptying it of all meaning"

All three illustrations in the article are abused in similar fashion to make anti-Israel propaganda points.  

The wording in the "Do You Know" item was taken from an article in the British anti-Israel organ The Guardian, quoting the anti-Zionist activist Emily Dische-Becker. 

The Guardian article was authored last February by Kenan Malik, a British Muslim writer, in an article lecturing Jews on what is and isn't antisemitism. That, in turn hyperlinks toward a podcast in something called "The Dig," in which Dische-Becker is interviewed. In other words, this smear of German antisemitism efforts was in effect "laundered" through a supposedly "reliable" source, The Guardian, but originates from an impermissible "self-published" source, a podcast. 

By the way:

If you don't like that article don't bother bringing your complaint to the self-styled Wikipedia criticism message board "Wikipediocracy." It was created and largely permeated with anti-Zionist content by the user "Jayen466." He identifies himself as Andreas Kolbe, co-founder of Wikipediocracy. As I've mentioned previously, Wikipediocracy functions as a platform for anti-Israel editors.