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Supplementary #WebsiteTheConversationLeonieFleischmann "Days after taking office, as he issued executive order after executive order to change the political face of America, Donald Trump also turned his attention to the war in Gaza. His proposal that Gaza should be cleared out and Palestinians should be relocated to other countries such as Egypt and Jordan has been met with outraged disbelief in many quarters. The Arab League has accused him of advocating ethnic cleansing. But Trump's statement has met with approval from far-right leaders in Israel. Influential politicians have been advocating for this 'solution' for years. These include finance minister and leader of the Religious Zionist party, Bezalel Smotrich and his ideological ally Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Strength) party and former national security minister. Smotrich responded to Trump's utterance with the declaration that he aimed to turn the idea into an actionable policy. Ben Gvir, who resigned his ministerial position recently in response to the Israeli acceptance of the latest ceasefire deal, claimed that the evacuation of Gazans was the most 'humanitarian answer' to the crisis and the only way to ensure peace and security for both Israelis and Palestinians. The pair - and their followers in Israel - share an anti-Arab ideology and a messianic belief in the Jewish people's right to what they call 'Greater Israel'. This would be a Jewish state which would also include the West Bank, which they referred to as 'Judea and Samaria', as well as Gaza and part of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. They have repeatedly called for Israel to use the war as an opportunity to reoccupy Gaza." https://theconversation.com/the-growing-influence-of-israels-ultranationalist-settler-movement-248568 #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #ToponymEastMiddlePalestineOPTGazaStrip #OrgSyndicateAccordLeagueOfArabStates #PoliticsNationalismJewishZionism ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPILMiflagaDatitLeumitHaTzionutHaDatitBezalelSmotrich ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPILOtzmaYehuditItamarBenGvir ^[Wikipedia] #CauseHumanitarianism #IdentityArab #BeliefTheismJudaismMessianic ^[Wikipedia] #ToponymEastMiddlePalestineOPT #NarrativeFrontierIsraeliSettlement #ToponymEastMiddlePalestineOPTWestBank #ToponymEastMiddleJordan #ToponymEastMiddleLebanon #ToponymAfricaNorthEgypt #ToponymEastMiddleSyria #ToponymEastMiddleIraq #ToponymEastMiddleSaudiArabia

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#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAndrewOrlowski ^[Muckrack] "The Left is using Wikipedia in its fight to control truth Is the United States economy now in a recession? It all depends on how you define a recession. And, in turn, that depends on who gets to write the definition of a recession. When Joe Biden's administration began to quibble with the widely accepted technical definition of the term recently, after two quarters of declining GDP, that was quickly reflected in the world's most popular source of information, Wikipedia. However, the 'encyclopedia that anyone can edit' then decided that anyone couldn't just edit it. The Wikipedia entry for 'recession' was put out of reach. A statement declared the page 'protected to prevent vandalism'. That provoked a rapid response from billionaire culture warrior Elon Musk, who tweeted: 'Wikipedia is losing its objectivity.' In an era when the dictionary definitions of words-such as woman are on the front lines of the battle between Left and Right, we shouldn't be surprised that an open access website reflects those disagreements. But Wikipedia's role goes curiously unscrutinised. The website has become the most powerful media organisation on the planet but the attention we pay to it is in inverse proportion to its influence. No one in history has had the same power to reach billions of people, With its 'facts' sprayed out via Siri and Alexa home speakers and smart televisions a scenario George Orwell envisaged in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four-it's more influential than ever. The world, in effect, has a single source of knowledge, and that source is Wikipedia. You may think that with such immense power might come some responsibility but that is where things get complicated. Wikipedia is really made up of two separate groups, and neither is keen to step forward when things go wrong. On one side is the informal collective of hard working and unpaid maintainers, which self-organises loosely on a national basis and is no more of an institution than the hacking group QAnon. The other entity is the US-registered fundraising non-governmental organisation, the Wikimedia Foundation, which exists largely to bring in funds which are then spent mostly on itself. Imagine an NHS where the white collar managers enrich themselves while the nurses work free of charge. The foundation employs hundreds of office staff with average salaries higher than comparable tech NGOs and can call on some $400m-plus (£331m) of cash. The foundation can't effectively tell Wikipedia's editors - or 'administrators' in the jargon-what to do. For their part, the Wikipedians resent attempts by the newly minted NGOcrats to boss them about. This is a dysfunctional marriage, held together only by the incredible amounts of money raised each year by guilt-tripping and misleading fundraising drives. Misleading because the costs of the site are a fraction of the nine-figure dollar sums raised by the NGO each year, and it is financially secure for several decades. Wikipedia's co-founder, Larry Sanger, agrees with Musk, and argues that bias is now entrenched in both camps. The site has changed character over recent years, he says. The NGO has been happy to accept cash from 'dark money' groups aligned to the Left and the Democratic Party, such as The Tides Foundation. With the encouragement of Jimmy Wales, another co-founder, it's thrown itself hard on to one side of political campaigns too, going 'dark' to highlight changes to copyright law. Wikipedia led such protests in 2019, even after it had succeeded in carving out an exemption for itself, with statements that European MEPs described as highly misleading. It's a fools' errand to try to prove bias - and I don't think the link between dark money and the site's slant is quite as straightforward as it may appear. But what is perhaps more disquieting is just how much the world has come to consult a single source of truth, one that is both unaccountable and unreliable. In the first study of its kind, five academics decided to test if Wikipedia had an influence on judicial decisions. Law students created more than 150 articles summarising Irish Supreme Court judgments, with half kept offline and half uploaded to Wikipedia. The number of cases on Wikipedia that were cited as precedents in subsequent Irish cases rose 22pc. 'The information and legal analysis offered on Wikipedia led judges to cite A the relevant legal cases more often and to talk about them in ways comparable to how the Wikipedia authors had framed them,' the study found. In other words, judges were reaching for the most easily available precedents, not necessarily the most legally appropriate. Wikipedia has begun to shape the law-and nobody even noticed. 'Because such content is not authoritative, our analysis reveals a policy-gap,' the study concludes. As for reliability, this has not been a year to boast about. Large chunks of Sino-Russian history, added to Chinese Wikipedia over a decade and replicated in the Russian and Arabic versions, disappeared overnight last month. Totalling over a million words, these historical entries appeared to be detailed and exhaustive, but were the invention of one bored Chinese housewife, who was dubbed the 'Chinese Borges', after the Argentinian Nobel Prize winning writer who created elaborate fantasy worlds. Inventing facts became the vocation for the user known as Zhemao, because she was bored: 'My husband has been away for a long time, I am empty and lonely,' she finally confessed. In another world, some of the staggering fortune that the powerful tin-rattling NGO has amassed would be diverted to fact-checking, removing bias, or even ensuring editors are paid and accountable. But power without responsibility is the NGO credo. When that power means information dominance, we should all be worried." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/08/08/wikipedia-has-become-tool-left-battle-control-truth/ #LiteralFieldEconomicsRecession #PhenomnEconomyGrossDomesticProductGDP #PleaVandalism #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #MetaphorVersusRightWingLeftWing #BrandAppleSiri #BrandAmazonAlexa #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell #1949_NineteenEightyFour1984 #ConspiracyTheory_CabalQAnon #OrgSyndicateAccordOrganisationNGO #OrgUSWikimediaFoundationLarrySanger #OrgUSTidesFoundation ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty #OrgUSWikimediaFoundationJimmyWales #LiteralIntellectualPropertyRightsIPRCopyrightFairUse #OrgEU #NarrativeTruthImmutableUniversalIncontrovertibleAbsolute #OrgIESupremeCourt #PhenomnInternationalRelationsSinoRussian ^[Wikipedia] #ToponymRussia #ToponymAsiaChina #IdentityArab #NarrativeTruthFabricationZhemaoHoaxes ^[Wikipedia] #IRLHoaxerZhemaoAKAChineseBorges #NarrativeTruthVerisimilitudeHoax #1942_CelestialEmporiumOfBenevolentKnowledge ^[Wikipedia] #IRLWriterJorgeLuisBorges ^[Wikipedia] #PhenomnDeprivationBeggarPanhandler

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Supplementary #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesTiffanyHsu ^[Muckrack] "In a world where trust in truth is crumbling, the grande dame of collective online fact-gathering is under threat on every front. The MAGA right, with Elon Musk at the fore, is slinging accusations of political bias and antisemitism and has even questioned the site's nonprofit status. Artificial intelligence is raiding the encyclopedia's resources and draining attention. Repressive governments have hauled its volunteer editors into penal colonies. ... The organization that supports the site, the Wikimedia Foundation, is increasing its lobbying budget and advertising in Times Square. It is charging companies like Google and Meta that gobble up the encyclopedia's 65 million articles, and throttling access for certain scrapers. And it is expanding its human rights team to better protect volunteers against rising harassment, surveillance and retaliation." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/media/wikipedia-ai-elon-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wVA.VcTW.-OPHLbNLWLzK #2026_ #PleaMAGA #ReasoningFallacyBiasPartisanship #OtheringHateAntisemitism #OrgSyndicateAccordOrganisationNonProfitNPO #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerative #OrgUSWikimediaFoundation #OrgUSWikimediaFoundationBernadetteMeehan ^[Wikipedia] #ToponymAmericaNorthUSNewYorkNYCManhattanTimesSquare ^[Wikipedia] #BrandTechGoogle #BrandTechMeta #PhenomnWebScraper ^[Wikipedia]

"NOUS SOMMES TOUS NOIRS ARABES RROMS ET MUSULMANS" [We are all Black, Arabs, Roma and Muslims] #IdentityBlack #IdentityArab #IdentityRomani #IdentityMuslim the image is from a march against racism in Paris in #2013_ https://www.midilibre.fr/2013/12/07/pres-de-2-000-personnes-marchent-pour-l-egalite-a-paris,794014.php

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"SOME FACTS about slavery the BLM crowd don't want you to know Historian Alan W. Fisher has stated that two million white Russians, Ukrainians, and Poles were captured and sold into slavery by Muslims between 1468 and 1694. Ottoman capital of Istanbul imported as many as 2.5 million slaves from Christian Europe and parts of the Muslim and Christian Caucasus between 1450 and 1700 Muslim slave traders trafficked 17 MILLION slaves along the Middle East, Indian Ocean and North Africa. Compare that to the FIFTEEN MILLION slaves who arrived in the Americas Some 5000 Ethiopian slaves passed through just ONE port (daily) on their way to Arabia. In India millions of slaves were taken after many wars and enslaved The first legal slave owner in American history was a black tobacco farmer name Anthony Johnson. North Carolina's largest slave holder in 1860 was a black plantation owner named William Ellison. American Indians owned thousands of black slaves. In 1830 there were 3,775 free black people who owned 12,740 black slaves. Many black slaves were allowed to hold jobs, own businesses, and own real estate. Brutal black-on-black slavery was common in Africa for thousands of years. Most slaves brought to America from Africa were purchased from black slave owners. Slavery was common for thousands of years. White people ended legal chattel slavery." #IRLHistorianAlanFisher #ToponymEastMiddleTurkeyIstanbul #PowerControlExploitationHumanTrafficking #PowerControlChattelSlavery #NarrativeTruthFabricationBlackOnBlackCrime #ReasoningFallacyStrawman #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTradition #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim #PowerControlBarbaryCaptivityNarratives

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Context #OrgUSAfricanAmericanIntellectualHistorySocietyAAIHSTylerParry "As one of the few documented Black landowners in 17th-century Virginia, his unique story has morphed into a manipulative trope used by right-wing activists. From the 1960s-90s Johnson was predominantly known among academics who studied slavery, but interest in his (misrepresented) life has recently gained traction with the advent of digital sharing, discussion sites, and public forums. For instance, as of July 12, 2019 Johnson's Wikipedia page claims he was a 'colonist' sold by 'Arab slave traders,' though there is no citation for the latter claim, nor is it supported by historians. It was likely added by a user who hoped to redirect blame from the Atlantic Slave Trade toward the 'Arab Slave Trade,' a popular talking point among right-wing commentators. In his podcast disputing reparations for slavery, conservative pundit Michael Knowles reiterated this myth about Johnson without reviewing the available literature. Such historical distortions seek to minimize Europe's culpability in expanding African slavery and discredit the system's intergenerational impact upon African Americans." https://www.aaihs.org/the-curious-history-of-anthony-johnson-from-captive-african-to-right-wing-talking-point/ #IRLHistoricalFigureAnthonyJohnson ^[Wikipedia] #ToponymAmericaNorthUSVirginia #MetaphorPeriodization17thCentury #IdentityArab #BrandTheDailyWirePolemicistMichaelKnowles #MetaphorWarfareUnderAttackBlameAvoidance #PhenomnResponsibilityCulpability

#OrgSyndicateMusicUKPinkFloydRogerWaters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_x3penXBFU&t=14s #1979_PinkFloydMother ^[Wikipedia] #OrgSyndicateMusicUKPinkFloydDavidGilmour ^[Wikipedia] #IRLMusicianDaveKilminster ^[Wikipedia] #ToponymEastMiddlePalestine #IdentityArab #OrgSyndicateMusicUKPinkFloyd_ #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #BrandSalemMediaGroupHughHewitt ^[Wikipedia]

#PhenomnColonialism #MetaphorPeriodization19thCentury #PhenomnStatueToppling #VlogAlMuqaddimahSyawishRehman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OdIqeWkhHU&t=55s #PowerControlBarbaryCaptivityNarratives #PowerControlChattelSlavery #OtheringCaricatureImperialismOriental #IRLPainterJeanLeonGerome #1871_VenteDEsclavesAuCaireAKATheSlaveMarket ^[Wikipedia] #PhenomnColonialism #BeliefTheismIslamism #IdentityArab #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #ToponymAfricaEast_ #ToponymAfricaWest_