cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22335522
Wikipedia has officially added “Gaza genocide” to its “List of Genocides” page, marking a major shift in how Israel’s aggression on the besieged enclave is being documented on the world’s largest online encyclopaedia.
The addition, which now appears as the first entry due to the list’s reverse chronological order, comes after months of extensive debate among the platform’s editors. On its “Gaza genocide” page, it states that “Experts, governments, United Nations agencies, and non-governmental organisations have accused Israel of carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people during its invasion and bombing of the Gaza Strip in the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.”
The entry for “List of genocides,” Wikipedia states that “Israel has been accused by experts, governments, UN agencies and non-governmental organisations of carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian population during its invasion and bombing of Gaza during the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.” The page goes on to list the death toll in Gaza while mentioning that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians killed are civilians.
The genocide by Israel is highly controversial even among the Pax Americana elites, so the recognition of the genocide does not say anything about the continued concealment of ongoing genocides by the British emigrants against Indigenous people through land thief to create ‘natural parks’, plagiarism, child sex slaves in fake schools, federal reserve concentration camps, planned starvation, planned chemical attacks, or planned assaults by white rapists.