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In the years since she was unfortunatley elected to Congress, Wikipedia's consistently done everything possible to prevent negative news about Muslim adherent Ilhan Omar from being presented on the page about her:

Omar’s treatment on Wikipedia regarding antisemitism, where editors have kept such allegations out of her page’s introduction in favor of more benign descriptions of her views on Israel, stands in stark contrast to the harsher treatment of various Republican officials.

Prior statements Omar has made about Israel have been among the most contentious on her Wikipedia page. Omar once referred to Israel having “hypnotized the world” and referred to Israel’s “evil-doings” in comments widely condemned as antisemitic. Efforts to mention this controversy, including in the introduction of her page, began shortly after she announced her candidacy in 2018 for the U.S. House seat being vacated by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN). Initially, editors sought to remove mention of the controversy from the page entirely and particularly rejected mentioning it in the introduction of her page.

After Omar was elected to Congress, efforts to remove mention of the controversy resumed. Editors also removed any mention of antisemitism in connection with her past comments about Israel. Despite repeated efforts to keep out any mention of her comments about Israel having “hypnotized the world” or remove the more incendiary details, continued controversy over her past remarks eventually got the details of her remarks and the antisemitism controversy mentioned and expanded.

Comments Omar made after joining Congress accusing pro-Israeli politicians of being paid by the lobbying group AIPAC, which does not make political contributions, prompted further conflict. When this was added and expanded to mention criticism of the remarks as antisemitic, a new fight erupted. One aspect of this fight was over creating an “allegations of anti-Semitism” section for the controversies, which editors repeatedly undid entirely or rephrased to remove any mention of antisemitism from the section heading. An editor also tried to suggest critics of Omar were hypocrites by adding a paragraph accusing Trump and various Republican politicians of antisemitism, though this was eventually removed.

Even further comments by Omar suggesting pro-Israeli politicians were pushing allegiance to a foreign country, which many critics described as a “dual loyality” antisemitic canard, fueled the dispute even more with material added then considerably shortened. Some seized on the increased coverage to restore mention of the antisemitism allegations against Omar to the introduction of her page, becoming the focus of a long-running battle with editors downplaying the allegations or removing them from the introduction altogether, including removing citations mentioning antisemitism. Left-wing and pro-Palestinian Editors even kept mention of her criticism of Israel and AIPAC in the introduction, but removed anything noting that some of her criticism was condemned as antisemitic.

And this is why a site practically anyone can edit isn't reliable for information. It's bad enough when outsiders do this, but insiders is telling a lot more. There's very little value I see in Wikipedia based on this, and nobody should turn to them if you want any meat and potatoes information on crucial issues. A company comprised of activist editors with anti-Israeli leanings is bound to become a serious problem, and this one of them.

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