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The relationship between Misplaced Pages and antisemitism represents an emerging interest in contemporary scholarship. The focus of research relates to the treatment of historical topics user access to articles relating to antisemitism, and its policy of neutrality.

Overview

For researchers, Misplaced Pages is viewed as a site where contentious topics are debated and reframed, and as a site of cultural expression. Misplaced Pages editors have been described by Holocaust researchers as intentionally introducing skewed views and distortions in the history of the Holocaust. User discussions on Misplaced Pages talk pages often extend beyond mere factual representation, as contributors engage in collective memory-making, which can include the recollection of traumatic historical events, such as the Holocaust Selective framing also occurs with instances of deemphasising the targeting of Jews in articles of mass murder sites. And Misplaced Pages's editing policy offers the opportunity for the creation of articles with antisemitic bias, an issue that editors resolve through processes of article deletion. In other cases, references to the antisemitic views of notable individuals have been deleted. And Misplaced Pages's open platform allows for 'edit wars' to occur between motivated parties. Antisemitic viewpoints and biases were observed to regularly appear in Jewish topic articles on Misplaced Pages's non-English sites. For instance, viewpoints expressed in antisemitic literature will be expressed as a legitimate historical viewpoint. In some instances, pages concerning popular individuals who maintain antisemitic viewpoints will be edited with a respectful tone. In some instances, editors have sought to remove mentions of Jewish ancestry from notable individuals, seeking to downplay Jewish ethnicity among favored persons of note, reflecting the history, values, and concerns of edtiors. And concerns over residual antisemitic sentiment being preserved on Misplaced Pages articles has been raised.

Some researchers into antisemitism on Misplaced Pages have focused on systemic bias rather than outright intentional antisemitism such as the use of nouns in relation to Jews and Judaism on Misplaced Pages. In this instance, such terms exhibit a mix of both positive and negative associations, though overall they lean slightly positive. Words like "scholar," "culture," and "heritage" often accompany "Jewish," presenting Judaism in contexts of intellectual and cultural contributions. However, certain terms, such as "lobby" and "conspiracy," reveal recurring biases and negative stereotypes that frame Jews as political entities with potentially undue influence. While these negative terms appear, they do not dominate as they do for other religious groups, suggesting a relatively neutral but subtly loaded portrayal of Judaism on the platform.

Other issues to emerge that relate to platform systems include antisemitic vandalism on Misplaced Pages pages, the creation of accounts with antisemitic names, the creative nature of which obscures its identification, coordinated efforts to prevent the deletion of antisemitic content, allegations that editors systematically erased accusations of antisemitism made against the UK Labour Party.

Hebrew Misplaced Pages is noted for detailed treatment of antisemitism in the context of various historical articles.

Community perspectives

Jewish community organizations have also alleged a pattern of behavior on the part of Misplaced Pages editors that effectively silence Jewish perspectives on matters relating to the State of Israel, actions which these organizations perceive as antisemitic. In the wake of the October 7, 2024 terror attack in Israel, the World Jewish Congress alleged that Misplaced Pages entries in English demonstrate a pattern of antisemitic and anti-Israel bias. A decision to label the Anti-Defamation League as unreliable was viewed by Jewish community members as an attempt to delegitimize Jewish communal perspectives or will provide cover for antisemitic editing, also raised concerns of Deborah Lipstadt, the American envoy on antisemitism. Other concerns raised in the wake of the attack include the decision in Arabic Misplaced Pages to publicly label Israeli action as genocide, in alleged violation of Misplaced Pages neutrality principles. Concerns were raised regarding editors removing antisemitism as one of the ideologies of Hamas.

Other concerns raised was the perception of a trend to deliberately tag biographies of Jewish individuals as Jewish could be motivated by malicious intent, however, where editors appear to be following site guidelines, concern should be set aside.

Misplaced Pages responses

In 2023, following allegations of deliberate distortions of Holocaust history, the English Misplaced Pages's Arbitration Committee subsequently opened a case to investigate and evaluate the actions of editors in the affected articles. Ultimately, the Committee ruled to ban two editors from contributing to the topic areas, although the researchers who studied the issue criticized the proposed remedies as " depth and consequence". Antisemitic vandalism on Misplaced Pages pages typically result in quick reversals by site editors.

See also

References

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  2. Tausch, A. (2020). The political geography of Shoah knowledge and awareness, estimated from the analysis of global library catalogues and Misplaced Pages user statistics. Jewish Political Studies Review, 31(1/2), 7-123.
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  8. Ferron, M. and Massa, P. (2013). Beyond the encyclopedia: collective memories in wikipedia. Memory Studies, 7(1), 22-45.
  9. Wolniewicz-Slomka, D. (2016). Framing the Holocaust in popular knowledge: 3 articles about the Holocaust in English, Hebrew and Polish Misplaced Pages. Adeptus, (8), 29-49.
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  12. Rosenzweig, R. (2006). Can history be open source? Misplaced Pages and the future of the past. The journal of American history, 93(1), 117-146.
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  16. Callahan, E. S., & Herring, S. C. (2011). Cultural bias in Misplaced Pages content on famous persons. Journal of the American society for information science and technology, 62(10), 1899-1915.
  17. Utz, R. (2019). Medievalism, Antisemitism, and Twenty-First-Century Media: An Update. Studies in Medievalism XXVIII: Medievalism and Discrimination, 41-50.
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Pet Project: Documenting overt antisemitism on Misplaced Pages

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  9. Misplaced Pages English user with Malaysian IP issues long rant and ends with a genocidal call
  10. Misplaced Pages English user with Saudi IP vandalises page on antisemitism in Algeria
  11. Misplaced Pages English user with Australian IP vandalises page on antisemitism in Australia
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