The Google translation:
In solidarity with the right of the Palestinian
people, No to genocide in Gaza ....No to killing civilians.
No to targeting hospitals and schools ....No to deception and double standards.
Stop the war .... and spread just and comprehensive peace.
There is not even a pretense of objectivity there. It is pure incitement against Israel aimed at the Arabic-speaking audience.
The words "targeting hospitals and schools" points to the Al Ahli Hospital bombing Arabic Wikipedia page. While the English page on the incident says
The consensus from various independent studies of videos, images, and eyewitness reports of the explosion, its aftermath, and the blast area suggests that an errant rocket launch from within Gaza is the most probable cause. While this is not a conclusive finding, it is currently considered the likeliest explanation based on the evidence gathered in investigations conducted by the Associated Press, CNN, The Economist, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal.[7] Human Rights Watch stated that the available evidence made an Israeli airstrike "highly unlikely".[6]
The Baptist Hospital massacre , also known as the Arab National Hospital massacre , is a massacre committed by the Israeli Air Force when it raided the Arab National Hospital “Al-Baptist” in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City , in the early night hours of October 17, 2023 . The violent Israeli air strike hit the hospital courtyard, which contained dozens of wounded people, as well as hundreds of displaced civilians, most of whom were women and children. The Israeli massacre caused a real disaster. It tore apart the bodies of the victims, making them scattered and burned, while the hospital turned into a pool of blood.
It then goes on to say that Israeli authorities lied about the rocket being from Islamic Jihad and faked the evidence.
Each of the links points to similarly deceptive or outright false pages describing events in Gaza and claims that Israeli "propaganda" is responsible for any disagreement with what Hamas says.
The main Arabic Wikipedia page on the October 7 massacre does not mention any Israeli civilians being slaughtered; the only mention of any civilians killed is in the statistics sidebar but not in the article itself, while it mentions many Gaza civilians being killed. The only mention of the word "terrorism" is for Israel. It only mentions the sexual assault of Israeli women as being an Israeli propaganda lie.
On December 23, all Wikipedia Arabic pages were turned off for 24 hours in protest of the "genocide." The Wikipedia editors said they want a comprehensive peace but pointedly do not say that they want Hamas to release hostages or to stop fighting.
While Wikipedia has always had problems with objectivity because of the nature of a site that anyone could edit, this is not only the bias of people writing Wikipedia pages, but of the editors of Arabic Wikipedia itself. It is a clear violation of Wikipedia's neutrality policy:
All encyclopedic content on Wikipedia must be written from a neutral point of view (NPOV), which means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic.NPOV is a fundamental principle of Wikipedia and of other Wikimedia projects. It is also one of Wikipedia's three core content policies; the other two are "Verifiability" and "No original research". These policies jointly determine the type and quality of material acceptable in Wikipedia articles, and because they work in harmony, they should not be interpreted in isolation from one another. Editors are strongly encouraged to familiarize themselves with all three.This policy is non-negotiable, and the principles upon which it is based cannot be superseded by other policies or guidelines, nor by editor consensus.
Given the December 23 "strike" it seems unlikely that the main Wikipedia editors are unaware of what their Arabic editors are doing. Which means all of Wikipedia can no longer be considered a reference site, but rather a propaganda site that sometimes includes other points of view for show.
(h/t @NoMoreSmoke1)
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