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Israel Palestine Collaboration

This page is within the scope of the WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration, a collaborative, bipartisan effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. For guidelines and a participants list, see the project page. See also {{Palestine-Israel enforcement}}, the ArbCom-authorized discretionary sanctions, the log of blocks and bans, and Working group on ethnic and cultural edit wars. You can discuss the project at its talk page.Israel Palestine CollaborationWikipedia:WikiProject Israel Palestine CollaborationTemplate:WikiProject Israel Palestine CollaborationIsrael Palestine Collaboration

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Jimmy Wales (opinion) (15 January 2016). "Wikipedia's strength is in collaboration – as we've proved over 15 years". The Guardian. It seems counterintuitive that Wikipedia, a website open for anyone in the world to edit, could be a reliable source of information for one of the world's deeply contested issues. And it is true that finding neutrality – a cornerstone policy of Wikipedia – under these circumstances is a serious challenge. And yet, WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration is working to make Wikipedia the most balanced reference point for anyone seeking information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while breaking down barriers in the process. The project aims to engage people in building bridges and weaving together viewpoints from both sides in an effort to create a "truly bilateral" narrative. As the world's primary free and open reference on the issue, Wikipedia has taken on the role of a sort of digital truth and reconciliation commission.

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Articles wanted

I think we've all noticed the (unsurprising) recent proliferation in new articles that quickly get AFD'd or merged. Meanwhile, there are still articles that have not yet been written but would easily pass GNG as stand-alones. I thought for editors who are interested in making new articles in this topic area, it might be useful to gather some redlinks and greenlinks to turn blue. Here are my suggestions (and GScholar searches for convenience):

Anti-Zionism and antisemitism [1]
Zionist transfer (or 'Transfer' in Zionism) [2]
Palestinians under military government (1948-1966 in Israel, 1967-... in occupied territories) [3]
Looting in Palestine or Looting of Palestine or Looting during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [4] (includes looting of homes, archives, antiquities, etc., compare with Looting of Poland in World War II, Looting by Russian forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine)
Biological warfare in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [5]

Other suggestions welcome, unless this was the wrong place to post this, in which case, sorry! Levivich (talk) 07:55, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Palestinian cultural genocide in case anyone wants to work on that. [6] Levivich (talk) 17:59, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

depopulated Palestinian villages

Hello, the entries mentioned in List of towns and villages depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war, List of villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict and Category:Villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict and other articles also in other languages do not have unified/appropriate properties in wikidata, about 20 out of the 600~ depopulated villages are clearly marked as such in wikidata, others are left as instances of "human settelment", "village" or "former human settlement", and with inconsistent (or non-existing property for) location, country ...etc, and a few have the properties relating to the timeframe of their depopulation. wikidata is still lacking/behind in some "technical" level such as describing the former population. But those still require consistency and inclusion of missing properties.

Adding apropriatly consistent properties to the remaining hundreds of items as this is disregarded/underacknowledged information is vital for any general attempt for reflection/contextualization that is genuine. Uwe a (talk) 12:40, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Writing about the 69 destroyed cultural heritage in Gaza

At Destruction of cultural heritage during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip#List of sites, we have a table based on a UNESCO list published 5 days ago, showing the 69 main cultural sites destroyed in Gaza. Many do not yet have articles about them.

Please help in creating articles about these destroyed sites.

Onceinawhile (talk) 09:28, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Referring to Member statements section

The red field in the WikiProject's header says: "This project page can be edited by all members. To become a member, please write a short message in the Member statements section" but the Member statements were removed to Archive. Maybe someone more experienced can remove that sentence and then remove this discussion topic ~ VanderlekD (talk) 10:27, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Where are the member statements in the archive? Can you post the link here? Thanks, HG1 | Talk 15:28, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Israel_Palestine_Collaboration/Archive_3#h-Member_statements-2008-01-16T17:09:00.000Z ~ VanderlekD (talk) 15:35, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. How about if the member statements are moved to a subpage, so that participants can add new statements there? HG1 | Talk 15:55, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reference to Nakba missing in description of Israeli settlement history

Note: Decisions on this topic affect all pages about Israeli settlements

On this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Chabad about an Israeli settlement established in 1949, I noticed that there is no mention of destroying a Palestinian settlement or expelling people. The only reference is that it was a "depopulated" Palestinian village. By not mentioning the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the settlement but mentioning the "Terrorist attack on the vocational school" the story becomes one-sided.

My suggestion is to add at least one sentence about the Nakba, referring to the Nakba page. This probably applies to most pages about Israeli municipalities/settlements. To avoid having to create a specific description for each municipality/settlement, my suggestion is to use this generic sentence if possible: "During the Nakba, Zionist militias forcibly expelled about half of the inhabitants of Palestine from their homes." VanderlekD (talk) 11:37, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Peace discourse in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Please help build out the new article Peace discourse in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Thank you. Onceinawhile (talk) 18:40, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion on Friendly Fire in the Gaza War

Friendly fire during the Gaza war has been proposed for deletion, following a dramatic edit which I've reversed for now. Various editors have tried to start a discussion on the future of the page but have not been noticed by active editors.

I've called for a discussion on the talk page here, please let us know your views.

The ongoing deletion discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Friendly fire during the Gaza war, I am proposing that an AfD be postponed until more editors have engaged. 20WattSphere (talk) 02:30, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

more eyes needed on James Ossuary

Yes, I know most editors in the IP-area are overstretched, but if you can, spare a moment on the James Ossuary. Lots of rather questionable so-called "scholars" regularly added by ...non-established wp-editors (to put it diplomatically). Huldra (talk) 23:33, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Assassination of Anas Al-Sharif#Requested move 11 August 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Assassination of Anas Al-Sharif#Requested move 11 August 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 01:08, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Ohio State University pro-Palestinian campus protests during the Gaza war#Requested move 19 August 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ohio State University pro-Palestinian campus protests during the Gaza war#Requested move 19 August 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 10:03, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gaza genocide has an RfC

Gaza genocide has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Opm581^{(talk | he/him)} 03:32, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request review

Someone might like to review an edit request recently made and the edit I made attenpting to resolve the issues it pointed out.

Can be seen here: Talk:Ilan Pappé#Misrepresentation of Pappe's writing. - IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 04:01, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Arab/Palestinian responsbility for the Holocaust

More input would be welcome in this discussion regarding the claim that "The Palestinians indirectly, and in some ways directly, aided in the destruction of European Jewry".

Talk:Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world#Removal of Benny Morris's "views on historical representation"

- IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 16:36, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Politics of food in the Arab–Israeli conflict#Requested move 10 October 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Politics of food in the Arab–Israeli conflict#Requested move 10 October 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 13:16, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Gaza war hostage crisis#Requested move 3 October 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gaza war hostage crisis#Requested move 3 October 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. veko. (user | talk | contribs) he/him 20:36, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sentence in Gaza War

I'd like to request additional opinions for Talk:Gaza war#Genocide. It's a discussion about if one of the lead paragraphs have strange wording. I'm pretty biased on this topic, so more mouths would be helpful. Thanks in advance. monkey_smashing^keyboards (talk) 03:48, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Neutrality in Gaza genocide

A discussion about maintaining neutrality and balanced sourcing in the article Gaza genocide has begun at Talk:Gaza genocide#Statement from Jimbo Wales. Because this topic falls within the shared scope of Israeli–Palestinian coverage, editors participating in WikiProject Israel–Palestine Collaboration are invited to contribute viewpoints on how best to ensure compliance with Wikipedia’s core content policies (WP:NPOV and WP:RS). Jimbo Wales (talk) 16:11, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Gaza war#Requested move 4 November 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gaza war#Requested move 4 November 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. --MikutoH ^talk! 03:28, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relevant MFD

Editors here are invited to this MFD about a putitive article covering the 1948 Arab–Israeli War,, the Suez Crisis, the Six Day War, and the Yom Kippur War. I'm particularly interested in opinions about how useful such an article would be if it made it in to the main namespace. Graham87 (talk) 13:43, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RfC at Gaza genocide

There is an RfC about inclusion of 186,000 death toll estimate in infobox at the Gaza genocide article. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 23:11, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]