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Jimmy Wales (wikipedia founder) joins Gaza genocide talk page, says Genocide is contested and pleades for "neutrality" (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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Quote from him:

I assume good faith of everyone who has worked on this Gaza “genocide” article. At present, the lede and the overall presentation state, in Wikipedia’s voice, that Israel is committing genocide, although that claim is highly contested.

A neutral approach would begin with a formulation such as: “Multiple governments, NGOs, and legal bodies have described or rejected the characterization of Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide.”

Respect for Jimmy Wales 📉📉

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[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Is it really contested per commonly accepted definitions of genocide? I thought it was just a controversial truth to state in public media.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 22 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, it seems the same as saying the 2020 US presidential election results are contested... which is technically true, but it'd be misleading to frame it that way.

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