A pro-Israel pressure group is orchestrating a secret, long-term campaign to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
A series of emails by members and associates of the pro-Israel group CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America), provided to The Electronic Intifada (EI), indicate the group is engaged in what one activist termed a “war” on Wikipedia
A 13 March action alert signed by Gilead Ini, a “Senior Research Analyst” at CAMERA, calls for “volunteers who can work as ‘editors’ to ensure” that Israel-related articles on Wikipedia are “free of bias and error, and include necessary facts and context.” However, subsequent communications indicate that the group not only wanted to keep the effort secret from the media, the public, and Wikipedia administrators, but that the material they intended to introduce included discredited claims that could smear Palestinians and Muslims and conceal Israel’s true history.
In the past, CAMERA has gained notoriety for its tactic of accusing virtually anyone who does not toe a right-wing pro-Israel line of bias. The group has even accused editors and reporters of the Israeli daily Haaretz of being “extreme” and participating in “radical anti-Israel activity.” Jeffrey Dvorkin, the former ombudsman of National Public Radio (NPR), frequently criticized by CAMERA for an alleged pro-Palestinian bias, wrote on the web publication Salon in February 2008 that “as a consequence of its campaign against NPR, CAMERA acted as the enabler for some seriously disturbed people,” citing persistent telephone threats he received in the wake of CAMERA campaigns.
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Posted on July 12th, 2010 in Other - Society & Culture | 2 Comments »
I am the president of a non profit organization. We are getting ready to launch a Teen Mom Campaign to support the Teen Mothers in Rochester, Ny and eventually throughout the US. Please answer the following questions.
1) Do you think that there are enough resources for teen mothers where you live?
2) Do you think there are enough resources for teenage girls that inform them about motherhood’s consequences?
3)What do you suggest for both cases?
4) Do you support teen parenting?
5) Have you ever been a teen parent?
Your answers will be anonimously used throughout our Teen Mom Campaign as data. If you post your answers you agree with the sharing of your information for public uses.
Thankyou! If you are interested in what our group is doing, please email us at MAD4U.rochester@gmail.com
Posted on May 30th, 2010 in Other - Society & Culture | 1 Comment »
the turn purple campaign is an campaing to raise the awareness of child abuse, and child homelessness. A petition is being circulated to collect a million signatures of American’s who recognize the problem of child abuse as a precursor to youth homelessness and seek to advocate for their needs; You can give ur name , email , age, sex, city , state , zip code or at least some of the info to sign the petition . to sign the petition go to http://www.standupforkids.org/petitionapplication.asp
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Posted on January 22nd, 2009 in Other - Society & Culture | 1 Comment »
Sandra B asked: I received an email with a link to http://www.gratitudecampaign.org
about a campain to thank soldiers but before I make any sort of hand gesture, I want to make sure it’s legit, and not someone trying to make me say something in sign language that I shouldn’t be saying. Do any of you know anything about this?
Posted on November 16th, 2008 in Other - Society & Culture | 1 Comment »