NEW: Wikipedia editors declare the ADL "unreliable" and ban the use of the ADL as a source on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A ban on the ADL as a source on antisemitism expected next.
Asaf Elia-Shalev
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Asaf Elia-Shalev
@AsafShaloo
Editor in Chief of J. the Jewish News of Northern California, @jewishsf
Author of ISRAEL'S BLACK PANTHERS from @UCPress
Joined March 2011
- Breaking: Jewish groups sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation requesting it override the Wikipedia editor community, which labeled the ADL unreliable. The foundation just told me it has no intention of intervening.
- Replying to @GoldsteinBrooke and @nytimesWait can you point out something specific in the story that’s false? That would be really important to point out rn
- The Black Panther Party inspired similar movements all over the world, including in Israel, where brown-skinned Mizrahi Jews organized against the racism they faced in a country that was dominated by Ashkenazi Jews. I don't think this history = "Israel colonizing Black Panthers"Israel colonizing Black Panthers is insane
- Replying to @SubBass49TeesHate symbols database has not been banned as a source and it doesn't appear that things trending that way in the debate
- Replying to @AsafShaloo“Unfortunately, this letter represents a misunderstanding of the situation and how Wikipedia works,” a spokesperson said.
- Replying to @AsafShalooAnd: "Firstly, it's important to note that the letter was addressed to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees; neither the Board or the Foundation make content decisions on Wikipedia. A community of volunteers makes these decisions subject to Wikipedia's terms of use.”
- New on the oligarch: Russian oil company Slavneft was up for auction, and Abramovich wanted it. According to documents + interviews, a Chinese company was about to outbid him. But before the Chinese company's rep could submit the bid, he was kidnapped.
- I am excited to announce that my book finally comes out this March. “Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding” is available for pre-order on Amazon, Bookshop.org and everywhere else books are sold. 🧵 amazon.com/Israels-Black-…
- I am not sure using the word "proselytize" to describe what Chabad does is defensible.
- Some of New York's best known rabbis are accusing a major American Jewish charity of allowing tax exempt dollars to flow to Israeli extremists who incite violence.
- Replying to @mkievalThat's indeed what ADL's defenders argued repeatedly in the debate about this.
- Mike Rothschild says he busts conspiracy theories for a living, expects us to believe him
- Replying to @BenjaminSalesShe doesn’t seem to know the difference between the Nation of Islam and Islam Islam
