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by AlecBG 66 days ago
First sentence starts with horrible antisemitism. Can someone fix it? (on my phone with kids so not in a position to)
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It's been fixed.
Thank you! I’m a casual user of Wikipedia but after this thread I went through the history of edits on the article and...oh my.

I have a greater appreciation for folks like you and the other editors who seem to be constantly removing this type of stuf. Some truly horrendous slurs there.

Still up. Looks like this is going to be another game of hit the hedgehog.
People keep adding different slurs. Awful and disgraceful.
Anti-Jew rhetoric is at a level unseen since WW2. It’s the new normal. It’s horrible.
Yeah, I come into contact with some form of Jewish hate on a literal daily basis now. It’s been this way for months.
*It’s the old normal :(
The article has now been been semi-protected to prevent vandalism by anonymous users.
I had a look at the history of todays edits and it is appalling.
Indeed I just figured out how to view them. Wow. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_O._Rabin&...
An admin has now semi-protected the article.
I used to regularly donate to the wikimedia foundation every year. I stopped doing that as I find the whole project is now a political tool and cannot be relied on. Even ignoring vandalism like here, sometimtes the same articles get different meanings depending on the language you view them in.
Different language editions of Wikipedia are completely different projects, with distinct user bases. You're never looking at the "same" article across languages.
In that case, Wikipedia should not link to them (and even distance themselves from the edition) if they purposefully change the content of the article to suit a political agenda. The whole thing became a death match arena of factions as mature as 12 year old kids playing an actual death match arena game... This example here just demonstrates my point.
Wikipedia has demonstrably been ravaged by anti-semitism. Feel free to ignore any of the notes here about Israel / anti-Israeli sentiment which I understand is not clear cut. There's demonstrably antisemitic coalitions editing wikipedia en-masse.

https://www.adl.org/resources/report/editing-hate-how-anti-i...