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The Wikipedia page for Hasan Piker, a far-left streamer who has called the Israel Defense Forces a “Nazi army” and Orthodox Jews “inbred,” has received more than 327,000 views in the past 30 days.

At the top of the page, it states that he has “regularly spoken about the Gaza war, advocating for Palestinians and criticizing the Israeli government.” Readers must scroll down quite a bit to learn that he has praised Hamas, a U.S.-designated terror organization. Despite an editor recommending it, the page does not note that the U.S. Department of the Treasury reportedly subpoenaed the streamer, who has 2.8 million followers on Twitch and has hosted multiple Democratic politicians on his show, regarding a recent trip to Cuba.

An editor stated in the page’s “talk” section that the crowdsourced encyclopedia should wait for more details to come out before including that detail.

.@lsanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia, was banned from the site indefinitely on Monday for promoting an initiative that, among other things, aims to prevent the site from being biased against “currently disfavored views and groups,” including Jewish and pro-Israel views, he told @JNS_org.

“Wikipedia has become more of a mob-rule anarchy than ever,” Sanger said. “In the kangaroo court in which a mob ousted me, Wikipedia’s administrators showed that they are above trivial details like formal charges, a designated prosecutor, basic decorum, distinction between prosecution and judge, dispassionate adjudication and so forth.”

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The crowdsourced online encyclopedia defines a “WikiProject” as being a “group of contributors who want to work together as a team to improve Wikipedia” focused on specific topic areas.

The initiative had a series of goals, including making Wikipedia’s decision-making processes more transparent, expanding the number of usable sources and reinforcing “genuine neutrality.”

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An anti-Israel Wikipedia editor was indefinitely banned on May 25 from editing articles related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The editor, known as “TarnishedPath,” has made more than 54,000 edits on the site and was sanctioned through Wikipedia’s Arbitration Enforcement process, in which administrators enforce rulings issued by the site’s Arbitration Committee, Wikipedia’s highest dispute-resolution body in contentious topic areas. TarnishedPath and another editor, “Sean.hoyland,” were accused of repeatedly defending “M.Bitton,” an anti-Israel editor who was recently banned from Wikipedia, and, in so doing, of violating Wikipedia policy against turning the site into “a battleground between factions.”

One administrator initially imposed a 90-day ban on TarnishedPath from editing articles related to the conflict over conduct on the talk page for Wikipedia’s main Zionism entry, separate from the original complaint. After reviewing the editor’s broader conduct, other administrators escalated the sanction to an indefinite topic ban.

Sean.hoyland received an informal warning, a notice from administrators cautioning that further problematic conduct could lead to sanctions.

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The Democrats who are running to be the next governor of California gave “shocking” answers when asked if Israel is guilty of committing “genocide” in Gaza, according to former Fox News host @SteveHiltonx, a Republican candidate in the race. Making that accusation against the Jewish state is “offensive,” and “it’s obvious that it was a response to one of the most brutal atrocities in the last 100 years,” Hilton told JNS, of Israel’s reaction to the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks.

Using the term “genocide” to “describe a legitimate act of self-defense is preposterous and offensive,” Hilton said.

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The United States and Israel are engaged in a just and legal war against the Iranian regime, which does not, as a matter of policy, negotiate in good faith, according to @EdwinBlackBook, an investigative journalist and book author.

Black, who also hosts an eponymous podcast, spoke to JNS prior to delivering a talk, which centered on Iran and on some of the things that the pope has said about Israel, at the Saban Theatre in Los Angeles on May 11. The author thinks that the war against the Islamic Republic is going well, but he thinks that the regime has an apocalyptic vision, in which adherents wind up in paradise.

“We’ve had these negotiations, which are completely fruitless, because the Iranians over the past four to five decades have turned protracted negotiation into a tooth-pulling art form,” Black told JNS. “They’ll do anything to buy an hour, to buy a day, to buy 30 minutes.”

“They’re on their way to making nuclear bombs to destroy humanity, because they want to destroy humanity, because they feel that on the ashes of an incinerated civilization, they will rise to their paradise,” he said.

“There is no opportunity for compromise with these guys,” Black added.

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Begun to fight racists, Southern Poverty Law Center became ‘weaponized against right-of-center people,’ experts say @wajacobson used to donate to the Southern Poverty Law Center in the late 1970s, because he thought it was going after violent, racist groups in the right way. Jacobson, now a clinical law professor at Cornell University and director of its securities law clinic, lost track of the center in the 1980s and it didn’t reappear on his radar until he started the website @LegInsurrection in fall 2008.

Jacobson’s first post about the Southern Poverty Law Center on the conservative site came in 2009, when he described it as a “victim of its own success.”

“The Southern Poverty Law Center once served a vital role in shutting down Klan groups and dangerous white supremacist groups. Morris Dees endured death threats and was a heroic figure in the struggle for civil rights,” Jacobson wrote at the time.

But “the reason to be of the SPLC no longer exists. The Klan and other such groups are virtually non-existent,’ he wrote in the post. “The threat to society is from two sources, lone wolves or very small groups of people, as to which the SPLC cannot be effective, and Islamic extremists, as to which the SPLC appears not to care.”

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A 32-year-old Jewish man, who was attacked on Monday evening near left Adas Torah, an Orthodox synagogue in Los Angeles, told JNS that his life flashed before his eyes.

“I don’t know if he said the words, ‘I want to kill you,’ but his facial expression and his attitude definitely gave that message,” said the victim, who spoke to JNS on the condition that he not be named. “I thought it was the end of my life.”

The victim, who said he is a Judaic studies teacher and “just a regular person,” told JNS that “I never would have thought such an incident would happen to me.” After studying at Merkaz Hatorah Community Kollel, around the corner from the synagogue, on Monday evening, he walked home through an alleyway, as he has done for the past five years, and noticed a blue minivan following slowly beside him. He said he was wearing a kippah at the time.

He made a “Hey, how are you” facial expression toward the driver, whom he described as a black man. The driver made the same expression in response, the victim told JNS.

“All of a sudden, he just opens the door,” he said. “I don’t know what he was saying. He pounced me, immediately put his hands over my neck, shaking me back and forth, trying to choke me.”

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Volunteer, anonymous editors on @Wikipedia are discussing whether to rename an entry on the crowdsourced, online encyclopedia, one of the internet’s most visited sites, that is now titled “Hamas beheading babies hoax.” The entry, which has been part of the site since February 2025, says that the “hoax refers to allegations, since refuted, that Hamas killed and beheaded dozens of babies and toddlers during the Oct. 7 attacks, which it led in southern Israel in 2023.”

The “hoax” was “initially endorsed by then-U.S. President Joe Biden, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some IDF spokespeople and was then spread credulously by Western media outlets, gaining widespread coverage and, arguably, helping to shape the consensus in favor of war on the Gaza Strip,” per the entry.

“At times the Israeli government has discreetly admitted that the rumors about the beheaded children are unfounded,” per the entry. “The hoax is argued by critics of Israel to be an example of atrocity propaganda and evidence that Israel is waging a ‘war on truth’ during the Gaza war.”

Editors generally appeared to agree on the entry’s “talk” page that the claim that Hamas beheaded babies is false, but disagreed on whether to use the word “hoax” in the title.

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A year into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, experts are divided on how to grade the administration’s efforts to protect Jews on campus—an area that the White House and the U.S. Justice and Education Departments, among other agencies, have made a priority. In 2025, Columbia University, Northwestern University and Cornell University agreed to pay $221 million, $75 million and $60 million respectively to settle federal probes over alleged Jew-hatred, and the Trump administration has sought $500 million from Harvard University and reportedly $1 billion from the University of California system, also for their responses to alleged antisemitism.

@RepWalberg, chair of the @EdWorkforceCmte, told JNS that the president “has taken strong, decisive action to protect Jewish students and faculty on campus.”

“Republicans in Congress are also investigating university leaders for their failures to follow the law,” the congressman said. “I am glad Jewish students and faculty finally have a president who refuses to tolerate hateful, antisemitic harassment.”

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.@Klmarcus, chairman and CEO of the @brandeiscenter and a former assistant U.S. secretary of education for civil rights, is cited four times in Wikipedia’s entry on “weaponization of antisemitism” and five times in notes at the bottom of the page.

“While warning in 2010 against denying or minimizing antisemitism, attorney and academic Kenneth L. Marcus also cautioned against overuse of the ‘antisemitism card,’ paralleling concerns raised by Richard Thompson Ford with the broader misuse of ‘the race card,’” states the page on one of the internet’s most visited websites.

Marcus told JNS that Wikipedia reveals its bias by having a page on “weaponizing” Jew-hatred at all, and that the references to his thinking are taken out of context.

“The so-called ‘weaponization’ is really more of a smear against Jewish advocates and should be recognized in that way,” he said. “They may think that by citing my work, they are providing some degree of balance, but the opposite is the case,” Marcus told JNS. “I have previously cautioned against either minimizing or exaggerating antisemitism, just as I have made the same caution about other forms of bias.”

The Wikipedia entry cites his work “somewhat out of context, as if it were support for the inappropriate charge of weaponization,” Marcus said.

The former education official has tried to refute the notion of weaponized charges of Jew-hatred.

“Advocates for the Jewish community, such as myself, are very aware of the dangers of exaggeration and have been clear about the need for objective assessments,” he said. “This should be seen as an indication that weaponization charges are, at best, exaggerated or distorted and, at worst, fabricated.”

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It takes Wikipedia nearly 7,500 words into its main entry on China to mention the word “genocide,” tucked in a section on “sociopolitical issues and human rights,” and even then, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia hedges.

“Since 2017, the Chinese government has been engaged in a harsh crackdown in Xinjiang, with around one million Uyghurs and other ethnic and religion minorities being detained in internment camps aimed at changing the political thinking of detainees, their identities and their religious beliefs, in what some described as a genocide or crimes against humanity,” Wikipedia states.

As of Dec. 11, Wikipedia states as a matter of fact, just some 425 words into its main page on Israel, that “following the Oct. 7 attacks in 2023, Israel began committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.” Prior to Dec. 11, the Wikipedia entry had stated that there were “accusations that it has committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.”

The crowdsourced encyclopedia is reportedly one of the main sources upon which artificial intelligence “feeds.”

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@Wikipedia drew criticism from Jewish leaders after the site’s editors opted to freeze discussion about the title of a page that refers to Israel committing a “massacre” in June 2024.

The decision means that no one can even discuss changing the title of the page “Nuseirat rescue and massacre” until at least August 2026. The page refers to the Jewish state’s liberation of the four hostages—Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv—from Gaza. Citing “Palestinian health officials,” the Wikipedia page claims that “at least” 276 Palestinians were killed during the operation. It also says that the Israeli military recorded fewer than 100 Palestinian deaths. The Israeli media article Wikipedia cites notes that there were terrorists among the Palestinian deaths, but the encyclopedia’s page doesn’t say that.

At least as of Oct. 2, the Wikipedia page calling it a “massacre” stated that it was redirected from a page called “2024 Nuseirat rescue operation,” per an archived version of the page. Wikipedia reportedly had that page and one on “Nuseirat refugee camp massacre” as of June 18, 2024.

After some efforts were made to change the title of the current page, Wikipedia editors proposed a moratorium on changes on July 26 and put the ban in place on Dec. 8, to last until Aug. 3.

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Cornell Graduate Student Workers United, the union affiliate of  United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America on the Cornell University campus, said on Nov. 26 that its members voted to endorse a boycott of Israel.

“Standing with the strength of Palestinians resisting a genocide, and their unequivocal human right to resist oppression by any means necessary, workers around the world are building power through the belief that we free Palestine, and Palestine frees us,” the union stated. Some 72.2% of the union members who cast a vote were in favor of the measure, and 27.8% were opposed, according to an email to union members that JNS viewed.

The union told its members in an email, obtained by JNS, that 72.22% of its members voted for the referendum and 27.77% voted against it. (JNS sought comment from the union.)

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The Undergraduate Representative Body of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., passed a resolution on Nov. 20 condemning the public school’s implementation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism. It passed by a vote of 14-2 with four abstentions, Zoe Oliver, vice president of marketing and public relations for the student government, told JNS.

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Jewish students at Chapman University were subjected to discrimination and harassment with “direct approval” of the highly-ranked private school in southern California, a new lawsuit alleges. The new suit is different from others against universities over their responses to Jew-hatred in that it accuses Chapman of violating a statute that lawyers typically invoke in instances of workplace discrimination, according to Matthew Mainen, a litigation attorney at the @NJACLaw.

“We’re curious to see how the courts take to this new application of this law, because we really think there’s an opportunity here to expand civil rights law,” he told JNS.

Bob Hitchcock, director of strategic communications at the university, told JNS that “we are aware of the matter and are reviewing the filing.”

“We stand by our strong record of supporting Jewish students and continuing to do so is a priority and commitment for us, consistent with our mission and founding,” Hitchcock told JNS.

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The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025, which would remove a “sunset” date of Dec. 31, 2026, from a 2016 bill of the same name, unanimously on Thursday. “This legislation clarifies and strengthens procedural protections for Holocaust survivors and their heirs by ensuring Nazi looted art claims will be considered on the merits,” stated @JohnCornyn, who led the 2016 bill. “With the rising tide of antisemitism around the world, this bill sends a message that Holocaust survivors and their heirs will not be forgotten, and that justice does not have a time limit.”

According to the bill sponsors, some 100,000 artworks that the Nazis stole have yet to be returned to rightful owners. “Unfortunately, many museums, governments and institutions have contradicted Congress’s intent and obstructed justice by stonewalling legitimate claims, obscuring provenance and employing aggressive legal tactics designed to exhaust and outlast survivors and their families,” the senators said.

“Rather than embracing transparency and reconciliation, too many have chosen to entrench and litigate, effectively preserving possession of stolen works rather than returning them to their rightful owners,” they said. “Moreover, some court cases have interpreted the law narrowly, leaving survivors without recourse.”

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There is “substantial evidence” that the Oakland Unified School District discriminated against Jews by circulating a map of the Middle East that deleted Israel, the California Department of Education determined on Oct. 20. The seven-page finding obtained by the @jewishsf states that in August 2021, during Arab American Heritage Month, a slideshow presentation in the district featured a map that excluded Israel. The map also appeared in a district guide that the district published in 2023 and in a resource guide that it disseminated in 2024, per the report.

Though the district determined that the map violated board policies, it “did not specifically address the allegation of discrimination in the form of antisemitism,” which the state education department said is “inconsistent with the law.”

“The material findings of fact, supported by substantial evidence, demonstrated a failure to include Israel in a map of the current Middle East, and instead, labeling the entire location as ‘Palestine,’” the department said. “This constituted discrimination toward Jewish persons.”

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When four anti-Israel, masked protesters with keffiyehs disrupted Claremont Hillel’s Oct. 7 commemoration at Pomona College in southern California on Oct. 15, Jill Stark’s “first instinct was to protect the students,” the director of community relations at the Hillel told JNS.

“That was why I just went and I stood there,” she said. Video footage that circulated on social media showed people forming a barrier to block the anti-Israel protesters from entering the room further. Stark was among those people.

She told JNS that protesters “dressed like Hamas terrorists” shouted statements like “Zionists are not welcome here” and “you’re all complicit in genocide” at the event, which included a survivor of the Oct. 7 attacks who showed photos and footage from that day.

“They were reading from scripts,” she told JNS of the anti-Israel protesters. “They had clearly been trained on what they were supposed to do and say.”

The protesters engaged in “targeted intimidation of Jewish students, marking one of our community’s most painful moments,” Stark said.

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A month-and-a-half after the deadline that a House panel gave the Wikimedia Foundation to provide documents about how it responds to bias, including Jew-hatred, on Wikipedia, the San Francisco-based nonprofit has yet to send the required materials, Carlie Baker, press assistant to @RepNancyMace, told JNS.

“The Wikimedia Foundation is engaging with the Oversight Committee about its request, but it has not satisfied document production at this time,” Baker said on Tuesday. (JNS sought comment from the foundation.) Mace, who chairs the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology and Government Innovation, and Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, penned a letter to the CEO of the foundation on Aug. 27.

The lawmakers sought “documents and information related to actions by Wikipedia volunteer editors caught violating platform policies,” as well as the CEO’s “efforts to thwart intentional, organized efforts to inject bias into sensitive topics.” They gave the foundation until Sept. 10 to provide the documents.

The Republican lawmakers stated in their Aug. 27 letter that a recent report “raised troubling questions about potentially systematic efforts to advance antisemitic and anti-Israel information in Wikipedia articles related to conflicts with the State of Israel.”

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Wikipedia, one of the most viewed sites on the internet, has hosted a page on “Gaza genocide” since July 3, 2024. Since Sept. 22, Wikipedia has linked to the “Gaza genocide” article, which accused Israel of war crimes, in an “in the news” section on its main page, which millions of people view daily. @AJCGlobal told JNS that Wikipedia is “elevating reckless and biased charges of genocide as fact,” and given how many genocide scholars disagree with that statement, the crowd-sourced encyclopedia “showcases how dangerous this can be.”

The nonprofit “previously raised concerns that Wikipedia is an information hub that is controlled by anonymous editors, who have their own biases, in a world in which fact and truth are now too easily distorted,” an AJC spokeswoman, who declined to be named, told JNS.

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The @ZOA_National filed a complaint against the Massachusetts Teachers Association, alleging that the union has fostered a hostile and discriminatory environment against its Jewish members since Oct. 7. The 26-page complaint, obtained by JNS, was filed with Andrea Joy Campbell, the attorney general of Massachusetts, on Aug. 13. It alleges that the union’s actions violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and state law.

Campbell’s office confirmed to JNS that it has received the complaint. JNS sought comment from the union.