JEWISH INSIDER
Wikipedia failed to address coordinated anti-Israel campaign, new ADL study finds
Haley Cohen
October 15, 2026

A year after the Anti-Defamation League exposed what it described as a coordinated campaign to inject antisemitic and anti-Israel narratives into Wikipedia entries, 91% of one banned editor’s contributions to six prominent articles on issues related to Israel remain in the live text, according to a new report. The report, released Thursday by the ADL Center for Technology and Society, found that Wikipedia has failed to systematically review or correct edits to pages on Hamas, Zionism, the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks and Israel’s war in Gaza, even after banning editors involved in the alleged campaign…Among the report’s examples, the ADL found that an October 2023 restructuring of Wikipedia’s “Hamas” article moved the bulk of material about the group’s antisemitism, use of human shields and human rights abuses to a separate, less-read article titled “Criticism of Hamas.” READ MORE

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