Video Caption: Wikipedia isn’t always what it seems. Nas Daily exposes how bias, hijacked narratives, and hidden agendas can distort history — and why finding the truth often means looking elsewhere.

In From Neutrality to Bias: Wikipedia’s Quiet War on Israel, I described how Wikipedia was once celebrated as humanity’s great neutral encyclopedia — a collaborative archive of knowledge, open to all, curated by many, and continually corrected.

That ideal has collapsed on battleground topics. On such pages, “curated by many” has quietly morphed into “dominated by the most organized and persistent.” On Israel-related subjects, that dominance has hardened into an entrenched Ziophobic editorial bloc that no longer documents history but retrofits it.

One of the most effective tools of this retrofit is linguistic. Not slogans or overt polemics, but quiet, procedural renaming — labels adjusted, terms “modernized,” identities reassigned. Over time, these edits harden into fact, and the past is made to speak a language it never knew.

One of Wikipedia’s most consequential distortions is its systematic renaming of all Arabs of the region, across all eras, into “Palestinians.” Arabs who lived under Ottoman rule, British administration, or early Jordanian control are now routinely described as Palestinians, regardless of how they identified themselves or how contemporaries described them.

This practice is presented as neutral terminology. It is not. The term Palestinian was not imposed as an Arab national identity until the late 1960s, then retroactively forced onto a past that never used it. Before that, Palestine functioned primarily as a geographic designation, and one strongly associated with Jews. Palestinian institutions, newspapers, banks, and sports clubs were overwhelmingly Jewish, and Arabs themselves rejected the term precisely because of that association.

Yet Wikipedia now imposes this modern political identity retroactively. Consider the assassination of King Abdullah of Jordan........

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