QUOTE(Sololol @ Thu 12th May 2011, 2:26pm)
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Basically, there's a group of hyper-aggressive Kahanist types in the Israel-Palestine editing area. Suspicions were raised: are they a canvassing group? Yes. A holdover from the first CAMERA group? Partially. They go for the generic POV-pushing group tactics of using sockpuppets to guard their editors, harass opposition, vote-stack, etc. What you're looking at is the group of unbanned editors communicating with the puppetmasters/canvassing. Some of it's trivial and some of it looks insta-ban worthy.
The group doesn't really matter, it's the lack of response when it came to light. It also raises the question of how the topic area got so bad that otherwise reasonable people (I assume) decided to start a group devoted to trolling a website. And kept at it for years.
I think yoiu know the answer to that. They played the antisemitism card so well that nobody could really do much about it. If you claimed a bunch of Jews plus sympathizers were controlling various areas of Wikipedia to push a Zionist POV, plus protect each other's leftist backs, you got labeled a skinhead. That was your price for noticing the obvious.
ED is gone, but a lot of the "Wikipedia Jews" article there was written in 2006, and supportive evidence over the years as it came in. Some bits are left. See if you recognize any of it.
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The Wikipedia Jews (TOW✡), led by Scheißjüdin‎, are an existential reality of Wikipedia. They don't like being called The Wikipedia Jews. They don't want to admit that they're Wikipedia Jews. Some of them aren't Jews. Yet they are Wikipedia Jews. As poster jackwelsh from The Wikipedia Review eloquently put it:
“What should their clique be called, if not the "Wikipedia Jews"?„
This is a cabal whose existence Wikipedia doesn't want to admit. Their own cabal page contains no mention of them[1]. The Wikipedia Jews are basically abusive people, the kind of people who feel like reverting all your edits in your face and then blocking you. In essence, they're bureaucratic fucks, fucking up the Web with Wikipedia garbage that gets copied by spam scrapers all around the Web with their Web fuckery, thanks to the idiotic Stallmanesque so-called "copyleft" license they use, a license with Jimbo Wales's "child in Africa" in mind, an imbecilic excuse to fuck up the Web and IRC all day long with spam, spam and even more spam.
Among the most famous Wikipedia Jews are Scheißjüdin‎, Jewjig, Isarig, L'Aquatique, Humus sapiens, Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg, Zeq and Mantanmoreland, who also has his own TOW article. SlimVirgin is a disgruntled PETA fan who is obsessed with Jews (even though she is a shiksa!) and the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Jayjg is the most famous Zionist on Wikipedia. Humus and Moshe are the henchmen to SlimVirgin and Jayjg's Joker- and Riddler-type evil genius. Whenever the leaders need help, the henchmen magically appear along with others. It is a complete and vicious lie that the actions of this posse are coordinated by email, irc or instant messaging.
There is, in fact, an unconscious mindlink bonding SlimVirgin, Jayjg and all their cohorts. When one feels pain, the others feel pain. When one feels "damn it, I wish I've already reverted that bastard three times", the others feel the pain and lend a reverting hand. Even with their contradictory views of Jewry, these users act in tandem to fuck up the Web and spread their view that Jews are the most important stuff on the planet, ignoring the fact that not everyone's a Wikipedia Jew. Mantanmoreland AKA Gary Weiss is a minor journalist who had a major meltdown when his article came up for deletion.
All of this is not really about Jewishness, of course. It has no connection to Jewishness
per se, except as it exemplifies the propensity of one group to here advance its own agenda, by playing the "persecuted minority card" far longer than it has any realistic justification for. If it weren't for that, nobody would give a damn. Or perhaps only real skinheads would, if there really are any who can actually read (much less help write an encyclopedia).
And I think we all have some kind of feeling for how bad this can get. If there was some kind of Irish Catholic cabal on Wikipedia controlling all the articles on Northern Ireland, supporting each other's RfA's, and blocking identified Irish Protestants or anybody in the outgroup, just for the hell of it, I think we'd have problem with that. Or the reverse. In fact, we've actually seen some of this on the "Troubles" wars on WP, and nobody had much patience for it. But the Israel/Palastine thing makes it all look a hiccup by comparison.
It's time WP quit putting up with all this. The stuff with SlimVirgin, Mantanmoreland, Baxter/Poet, and many of the great WikiWars have all had a huge subtext of Jew vs. Not-a-Jew. And even Jew vs. Not-Politically-Correct-Jew. Personally, I'm pretty sick of it. If you can't leave your ethnicity at the door when editing politics articles, you should probably topic-ban yourself. And if some other editor's ethnicity makes a difference in whether you support their RfAs and blocks against other editors, you're just as racist as you accuse your enemies of being. Go away! I wish you'd go march in a political protest someplace, and stay away from Wikipedia.