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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 decision to include the Gaza genocide in the list followed
Wikipedia�s formal Request for Comment process, which began in July.
Editors supporting the inclusion argued that it met the page�s
criteria of events �classified by significant scholarship� as
genocide. They also pointed out that the Gaza situation had stronger
scholarly consensus than some existing entries on the list, such as
the Darfur and Rohingya genocides.

British Wikipedian, Stuart Marshall, made the final ruling in
September, decisively supporting the article�s inclusion. �Based on
the strength of the arguments � and it�s not close � I discarded the
argument that scholars haven�t reached a conclusion on whether the
Gaza genocide is really taking place�, Marshall wrote in his decision.
�The matter remains contested, but there�s a metric truckload of
scholarly sources linked in this discussion that show a clear
predominance of academics who say that it is.�

Marshall concluded his ruling with the straightforward statement: �We
follow the scholars.�

According to Wikipedia, events qualify as a genocide if they have been classified as such by �significant scholarship.�

Wikipedia�s decision comes amid wider discussions about source
reliability, particularly regarding Israel and Palestine. In a related
move, the platform�s editors recently voted to declare the
Anti-Defamation League �generally unreliable� on the subject, adding
it to their list of banned and partially banned sources.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241108-its-not-close-israel-committing-genocide-concludes-wikipedia-ending-editorial-debate/

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