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First line of Wikipedia Oct. 7 entry says Hamas terrorists came from ‘blockaded’ Gaza, seeming to justify attacks. “It’s yet another example of the Wikipedia editors’ anti-Israel bias,” Alyza Lewin of the Combat Antisemitism Movement told JNS. Aaron Bandler. Oct 2, 2026. ...The Wikipedia user who launched the formal discussion stated that “Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip is a defining feature of this topic and necessary context for a non-specialist reader” and that the highest-quality sources support using the word “blockaded” in a neutral voice in the opening sentence.

The editor cited Rashid Khalidi, whom the editor called the “preeminent expert in modern Palestinian history,” to support using the term. Jonathan Schanzer, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, has noted that Khalidi was a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization when the PLO was a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. Khalidi has denied that.

The Wikipedia user compared saying Hamas came from a “blockaded” place to noting that the Warsaw Ghetto uprising opposed an oppressive regime. “We must not create an exception to obfuscate through omission here,” the person wrote... https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/first-line-of-wikipedia-oct-7-entry-says-hamas-terrorists-came-from-blockaded-gaza-seeming-to-justify-attacks