Jan 13, 2026
🕑 1 hour 11
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Shlomit Lir is a writer, editor, and researcher at the University of Haifa, specializing in the politics of knowledge. Since 2024, she has been a public critic of Wikipedia, especially relating to its coverage of Israel.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- "The Bias Against Israel on Wikipedia" (2024 report for the World Jewish Congress)
- 2025 X post by Shlomit about then-candidate for the WMF Board of Trustees Ravan al-Taie
- "Smear Campaign Against Ravan, Wikimedia Foundation BoT Candidate" (response post by several Wikimedians)
- Larry Sanger's "Nine Theses on Wikipedia"
- "How Wikipedia’s Pro-Hamas Editors Hijacked the Israel-Palestine Narrative" (2024 Pirate Wires article by Ashley Rindsberg)
- "Manipulated History" (2025 document for the World Jewish Congress)