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== Reliability of sources ==
The [[Wikipedia community]] has assessed the reliability of several Jewish sources. For instance, [[The Jewish Chronicle|''The Jewish Chronicle'']], a British newspaper, was declared a generally reliable source in 2021 despite concerns of bias. Editors debated the newspaper's coverage of [[left-wing]] and Muslim groups.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Elia-Shalev |first=Asaf |date=2024-06-18 |title=ADL faces Wikipedia ban over reliability concerns on Israel, antisemitism |url=https://www.jta.org/2024/06/18/united-states/adl-faces-wikipedia-ban-over-reliability-concerns-on-israel-antisemitism |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240625033631/https://www.jta.org/2024/06/18/united-states/adl-faces-wikipedia-ban-over-reliability-concerns-on-israel-antisemitism |url-status=live }}</ref>
Also in 2021, a consensus was reached to prohibit the use of the [[Jewish Virtual Library]], an [[online encyclopedia]], as a source for most cases due to concern about its accuracy and bias towards Israel. In 2024, the pro-Israel advocacy group [[NGO Monitor]] was also prohibited as a source.<ref name=":8" />
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=== Euro-Med Monitor's WikiRights project ===
According to [[Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor|Euro-Med Monitor]], there was a "dominance of the official government-issued narrative" in Wikipedia articles and "an almost complete absence of the narrative of victims of violations in different regions". Since 2015, Euro-Med Monitor has been training college students and recent graduates in conflict zones,<ref name=":7" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-11-16 |title=الأورومتوسطي يختتم سلسلة لقاءات تدريبية لمشروع "ويكي رايتس" |url=https://routardnews.net/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%85%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%b3%d8%b7%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d8%ae%d8%aa%d8%aa%d9%85-%d8%b3%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%a1%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%aa%d8%af%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b4%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%b9-%d9%88%d9%8a%d9%83%d9%8a-%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%8a%d8%aa%d8%b3/ |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=رويترد عربي |language=ar |archive-date=2022-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123172718/https://routardnews.net/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%AA%D9%85-%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AA%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B9-%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A-%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3/ |url-status=live }}</ref> including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip,<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 October 2021 |title=Euro-Med Monitor launches second round of the WikiRights project in the West Bank and Gaza |url=https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/4991/Euro-Med-Monitor-launches-second-round-of-the-WikiRights-project-in-the-West-Bank-and-Gaza |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420181526/https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/4991/Euro-Med-Monitor-launches-second-round-of-the-WikiRights-project-in-the-West-Bank-and-Gaza |url-status=live }}</ref> to make improvements to Wikipedia articles with the victim narratives from different conflict areas. The training includes workshops on techniques and evidence to modify Wikipedia articles written in Arabic and English. Project beneficiaries are informed of Wikipedia's standards and policies to safeguard appropriate use of the encyclopedia.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=WIKI Rights |url=https://euromedmonitor.org/en/projects/5/WIKI-Rights |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305074728/https://euromedmonitor.org/en/projects/5/WIKI-Rights |url-status=live }}</ref> Euro-Med Monitor had analyzed Wikipedia's human rights content during armed conflicts in the MENA region and found the content to be weak. Director of WikiRights Anas Aljerjawi stated, "The WikiRights project believes in the value and urgency of promoting and documenting the narrative of the victims and keeping it present."<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |date=2020-12-24 |title=WikiRights - project documenting human rights violations on Wikipedia |url=https://www.bnreport.com/en/wikirights-2/ |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=Business News Report |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-10-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005021222/https://www.bnreport.com/en/wikirights-2/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Responses ==
''Haaretz'' journalist Omer Benjakob noted in 2021 that articles on the conflict are very different between the English, Hebrew and Arabic Wikipedias, and that the conflict is one of the three most regulated areas on English Wikipedia.<ref name="Haaretz 2021" /> In 2023, Stephen Harrison of ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'' wrote, "It shouldn't come as a surprise that Wikipedia is a better place to learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than [[Twitter|X]], [[TikTok]], and other social media platforms are."<ref name=":1" />
The [[World Jewish Congress]] (WJC) stated in a March 2024 report that "the state of the articles dealing with the conflict is alarming in its lack of neutrality." The WJC also stated that Wikipedia's [[comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany]] article "normalizes the unacceptable comparison" due to terms such as "occupation" and "military actions". The WJC also reported that "deletion attacks" occurred on Wikipedia, which resulted in the simultaneous deletion nominations of the articles for the [[Netiv HaAsara massacre|Netiv HaAsara]], [[Nir Yitzhak massacre|Nir Yitzhak]] and [[Holit massacre|Holit]] massacres, as well as [[Inbal Rabin-Lieberman]].<ref name="World Jewish Congress 2024">{{cite web |last1=Aharoni Lir |first1=Shlomit |date=14 March 2024 |title=The Bias Against Israel on Wikipedia |url=https://wjc-org-website.s3.amazonaws.com/horizon/assets/4eQd1wRR/the_bias_against_israel_in_english_wikipedia_240314_5-1.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320002429/https://wjc-org-website.s3.amazonaws.com/horizon/assets/4eQd1wRR/the_bias_against_israel_in_english_wikipedia_240314_5-1.pdf |archive-date=20 March 2024 |access-date=19 March 2024 |publisher=[[World Jewish Congress]]}}</ref> A columnist in ''[[The Forward]]'' called the WJC's cited examples of bias against Israel "less than convincing".<ref name="The Forward 19 June 2024">{{cite news |last1=Eshman |first1=Rob |title=Wikipedia called the ADL ‘unreliable.' It's a wake-up call the civil rights organization badly needs |url=https://forward.com/opinion/625117/wikipedia-adl-unreliable-jonathan-greenblatt/ |access-date=20 June 2024 |work=The Forward |date=19 June 2024 |language=en |archive-date=20 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240620003653/https://forward.com/opinion/625117/wikipedia-adl-unreliable-jonathan-greenblatt/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
A June 2024 ''[[The Jerusalem Post|Jerusalem Post]]'' opinion piece said that the English version of the Israel–Hamas war article was arguably more neutral than the Arabic and Hebrew versions.<ref name="The Jerusalem Post 2 June 2024">{{cite news |last1=Byron |first1=Avior |date=2 June 2024 |title=Truth held hostage: Language differences in Wikipedia's 'Israel-Hamas War' page - opinion |url=https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-804636 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603073931/https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-804636 |archive-date=3 June 2024 |access-date=3 June 2024 |work=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |language=en}}</ref>
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