New Observer, “Philip Cross’ Affair Reveals Jewish Lobby’s Editing of Wikipedia”, 25 May 2018:
The news that an anonymous user by the name of “Philip Cross” has made over 30 edits per day, seven days a week, for 14 years without a single break, all to push pro-Israel propaganda, is firm evidence of the Jewish lobby’s ongoing editing of the “open” Wikipedia website, it has emerged.
As revealed in an exposé published by author, broadcaster, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010, Craig Murray, the user known as “Philip Cross” has not had one single day off from editing Wikipedia in almost five years.
“Cross” has edited every single day from 29 August 2013 to 14 May 2018. Including five Christmas Days. That’s 1,721 consecutive days of editing, Murray revealed, quoting a review first published on a site critical of Wikipedia called Wikipedia.fivefilters.org.
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“’Philip Cross’ also systematically seeks to burnish the reputations of mainstream media journalists and other figures who are particularly prominent in pushing neo-con propaganda and in promoting the interests of Israel.”
“Simply put, the purpose of the ‘Philip Cross’ operation is to make certain that if that reader looks up an anti-war person such as John Pilger, they will conclude they are thoroughly unreliable and untrustworthy, whereas if they look up a right wing MSM journalist, they will conclude they are a paragon of virtue and entirely to be trusted.”
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The UK’s George Galloway—an ultra-leftist UK politician who is famous for being pro-Palestinian is “Philip Cross’s” prime target, and has been responsible for no less than 1,800 edits on Galloway’s Wikipedia page.
After Galloway, the Media Lens website—which is unhesitatingly critical of Israel and reports widely on Israeli war crimes and subversion against its neighbors, is “Philip Corss’s” second most edited Wikipedia article. “Cross” is responsible for almost 80% of all content on the Media Lens entry.
The obviousness of the matter—that the “Philip Cross” account cannot be just one person, but rather a coordinated group—will come as no surprise to all those who know that the Jews have been openly running a planned Wikipedia editing operation for over a decade.
For example, in August 2010, the Guardian newspaper reported that “Israeli groups seeking to gain the upper hand in the online debate have launched a course in “Zionist editing” for Wikipedia, the online reference site.”
In an article titled “Wikipedia editing courses launched by Zionist groups,” the paper reported that the Yesha Council, representing the Jewish settler movement which promotes the illegal theft of Palestinian land in the West Bank, was running the “workshops”—and that the director of the Yesha Council was one Naftali Bennett.
Bennett is today Israel’s Minister of Education and Minister of Diaspora Affairs.
An article in the Isreali Arutz Sheva news revealed that the “strategy and goal” of the workshops was to “educate and enable an ‘army’ of editors of Wikipedia, giving them the professional skills to write and edit the online encyclopedia’s content in a manner which defends and promotes Israel’s image.
“Seminar workshops were led by professionals and senior Wikipedia editors, and included an overview of the Wikipedia project and practical training on web editing, writing, and values.
An article in Newsweek magazine in November 2017 revealed that the Israeli government “has been engaged in recruiting what it has referred to as ‘cover units,’ . . a mix of international students and domestic students have been employed by Israel in a ‘professional trolling’ capacity to defeat a wide range of enemies from the boycott, divest and sanctions (BDS) movement to foreign governments.
Source, New Observer.
