The same coordinated clique of Wikipedians that promoted Pallyweid and amplified genocidal Hamas narratives through its allied Turkey/Qatar/Iran-linked, unreliable sources is now sabotaging factual coverage of the Islamic Hanukkah Massacre

Digital Erasure of Jewish Victims: The Wikipedia Campaign to Protect Genocidal "Palestine" Leadership and Rewrite History.

The same coordinated clique of Wikipedians that previously promoted Pallyweid and amplified genocidal Hamas narratives—relying heavily on Turkey/Qatar/Iran-linked, demonstrably unreliable sources—is now actively sabotaging factual coverage of the Islamic Hanukkah Massacre. Their pattern is consistent: marginalize Jewish victims, blur or excuse Islamist violence, and replace documented facts with ideologically driven distortions. This is not neutral editing but a sustained effort to erase Jewish suffering, shield extremist actors from scrutiny, and weaponize Wikipedia against historical truth and Jewish self-defense.

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Wikipedia debating if attack targeting Jews at Sydney Chanukah event was ‘terror’ JNS . December 16, 2025.

Wikipedia debating if attack targeting Jews at Sydney Chanukah event was ‘terror’. Deborah Lipstadt, scholar and former U.S. envoy on Jew-hatred, said that if the online encyclopedia was downplaying the attack that was unsurprising and it was “being true to itself.”

The attack, in which gunmen thought to be a father and son shot and killed 15 people at a Chanukah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday, is widely described as a terror attack. But editors on Wikipedia are debating whether that phrase is appropriate or it should just be called a “shooting.”

The site’s current page about the incident refers to a “shooting” in the headline and, in the body of the article, to a “terrorist mass shooting.”

Editors on the site, ... are also reportedly trying to keep the names of the shooters out of the article. Law enforcement have said that the shooters were inspired by ISIS.

On the “talk” section of the page, editors on Wikipedia are debating whether a sufficient number of sources has called the attack “terror” and if the suspected gunmen, one of whom is dead, are public figures who ought to be named.

Deborah Lipstadt, former U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism and professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University, stated that if editors are actually trying to characterize the attack merely as a “shooting” on Wikipedia, then that’s “hardly a surprise.

“Just Wikipedia being true to itself when it concerns Israel, Jews, antisemitism,” she stated.

“Chanukah should be celebrated with oil lighting, not gaslighting,” added David May, research manager and senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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[Hamas’s operational strategy intentionally endangers civilians by embedding its forces among them, obstructing aid and evacuations, and then instrumentalizing the resulting casualties to advance political and propaganda objectives against Israel].