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Is Wikipedia a cesspool of antisemitism? Don't trust the ADL's answer.

JL;DR SUMMARY Shira Klein criticizes the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) report alleging antisemitism on Wikipedia, claiming it distorts scholarly work, including her own research with Jan Grabowski, to accuse Wikipedia of pro-terrorist content. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustZionismAdlPolandBiasWikipediaJan GrabowskiEditing

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Orange, California, United States
"Shira Klein is an associate professor and chair of history at Chapman University."
Poland
"In our research, my co-author, Jan Grabowski, and I examined Wikipedia articles about the Holocaust in Poland."
Israel
"None of these problems are OK. But overweighting the extent to which they apply exclusively to Jewish issues risks making Wikipedia look like a site that is intentionally fostering antisemitism rather than one that, like so much of the internet, is still learning how to manage the full spectrum of human bias."
Palestinian Territories
"And Wikipedians are acutely aware of the ADLs Israel advocacy; thats why they voted in June 2024 to declare the ADL an unreliable source on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

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