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Wikipedia has officially added “Gaza genocide” to its “List of Genocides” page, marking a major shift in how Israel’s aggression on the besieged enclave is being documented on the world’s largest online encyclopaedia.

The addition, which now appears as the first entry due to the list’s reverse chronological order, comes after months of extensive debate among the platform’s editors. On its “Gaza genocide” page, it states that “Experts, governments, United Nations agencies, and non-governmental organisations have accused Israel of carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people during its invasion and bombing of the Gaza Strip in the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.”

The entry for “List of genocides,” Wikipedia states that “Israel has been accused by experts, governments, UN agencies and non-governmental organisations of carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian population during its invasion and bombing of Gaza during the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.” The page goes on to list the death toll in Gaza while mentioning that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians killed are civilians.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I found out yesterday that the entire family of one of my good friends has been displaced in Lebanon. They are NOT Hezbollah, they just had the bad luck of "living while Arab in Lebanon".

Israel can get fucked.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 34 points 1 week ago

Didn't you hear? All Arabs in Lebanon are Hezbollah.

Or they're sheltering Hezbollah, which is as bad as being Hezbollah.

Or they know someone who is sheltering Hezbollah, which is as bad as sheltering Hezbollah.

Or they live near someone who knows someone who is sheltering Hezbollah, which is as bad as knowing someone who is sheltering Hezbollah.

And so on.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

The bright side is that Israel is on track to lose, regardless of US intent.

[–] exu@feditown.com 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the past, the winner would write history. Now it's Wikipedia editors.

[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

The winners will write wikipedia soon enough.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] qaz@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is Wikipedia also protected under Article 5?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

No, it just tends to have a pro-western bias.

[–] Arelin@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago

Those editors should probably check their phones for signs of tampering...

I say that only half-jokingly

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Few decades late, but, hey, at least we got there after continuing to deny it would start looking bad.