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Wikipedia now labels the top Jewish civil rights group as an unreliable source


Wikipedia’s editors recommended that the Anti-Defamation League should not be trusted to give reliable information on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The editors overwhelmingly support that label but continue to debate the decision, which could ultimately deal a blow to the credibility ofthe leading source of research and information on antisemitism. “ADL’s leadership has taken a much more aggressive stance than most academic researchers in blurring the distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism,” said James Loeffler, professor of modern Jewish history at John Hopkins University. For example, one editor, with the username Sameboat, claimed the ADL leader’s advocacy “demonstrates its skewed views and manipulative presentation on the IP (Israel-Palestine) topic and thus (is) highly unreliable.”

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