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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22335522

Wikipedia has officially added “Gaza genocide” to its “List of Genocides” page, marking a major shift in how Israel’s aggression on the besieged enclave is being documented on the world’s largest online encyclopaedia.

The addition, which now appears as the first entry due to the list’s reverse chronological order, comes after months of extensive debate among the platform’s editors. On its “Gaza genocide” page, it states that “Experts, governments, United Nations agencies, and non-governmental organisations have accused Israel of carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people during its invasion and bombing of the Gaza Strip in the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.”

The entry for “List of genocides,” Wikipedia states that “Israel has been accused by experts, governments, UN agencies and non-governmental organisations of carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian population during its invasion and bombing of Gaza during the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.” The page goes on to list the death toll in Gaza while mentioning that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians killed are civilians.

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  • AlyxMS [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    44·
    12 days ago

    Checked out that page and it looks pretty alright.

    Had stuff like Holodomor listed but at the very least it did note whether it’s intentional or not is disputed. And if it’s unintentional, it doesn’t constitute as a genocide.

    Didn’t see any bullcrap like Uyghur genocide on there. I guess it would be really embarrassing to write “0” in “Estimated Killings” and have it placed next to events where millions died.

    (Nevermind, went to the Talk page for fun and libs were mad Tibetan and Uyghur “genocide” was removed. Some guy reminded them literally everything else had death tolls listed but these don’t. At least seeing the Hasbara bots using the usual arguments “They are not trying to destroy Gaza, they are trying to destroy Hamas, which are terrorists!” getting shut down was fun)

    • Hagels_Bagels@lemmygrad.mlOP
      16·
      12 days ago

      Yep, I saw that on the talk page and it actually was listed there, but they had to remove it since it “was the only entry that did not have a death toll.”

      It should be noted that one of the reasons for removing it was a lack of death toll. Every single entry in the article’s list has a death toll. The Uyghur genocide, when it was listed here, was the only entry that did not have a death toll. Given that the article Uyghur genocide itself had its title changed to Persecution of Uyghurs in China, you should first go there and argue for a restoration of that article’s title. But you should familiarize yourself with the subject matter and the discussion behind the decision here. JasonMacker (talk) 17:46, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

      (I wrote this comment before you edited yours and saw you did the same thing lol)