US Lawmakers Pen Letter to Wikimedia Foundation Expressing ‘Concern’ Over Anti-Israel Bias

US Lawmakers Pen Letter to Wikimedia Foundation Expressing ‘Concern’ Over Anti-Israel Bias

The US Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. A bipartisan group of 23 US lawmakers sent a letter to the nonprofit that operates the Wikipedia website expressing concern over allegedly explicit and extensive anti-Israel bias demonstrated on the popular online encyclopedia. The letter, which was sent on April 30, called on the Wikimedia Foundation to tackle “antisemitism, anti-Israel bias, and the potential abuse of Wikiped…

ICYMI: ‘Agenda-driven’ – ADL blasts Wikipedia bias on Israel, Judaism

An investigation into systemic anti-Israel bias on Wikipedia reveals that the supposedly neutral platform has been compromised by editors with clear anti-Zionist and antisemitic views. The report, published by the ADL’s (Anti-Defamation Leagues) Center for Technology and Society (CTS), paints a disturbing picture of the outsize influence held by a relatively small number of activist editors. Some 40 editors were found to have collaborated to cha…