#context is so important for these te lo juro it is not the Wild West on Wikipedia okay I promise

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These posts are from two different articles and the context of them is lost in these screenshots so it is unclear what is happening.

The comment re: the title of Jewish exodus from the Muslim world was also immediately followed by someone saying they were not going to change the title because it erases the Jewish history and is antisemitic. A second comment backs up that this change would be inappropriate. The entire section was then scrapped as all of these editors lacked the necessary editing permissions to even be posting on the talk page. The overhaul of this page’s title would be an absolutely massive discussion and the odds that a single editor would be able to make the change are zero. They were topic-banned just from discussing it!

Second reblog: the original title of the article was “20th century movement of foreign nationals from Egypt” and it was changed to “20th century departure of foreign nationals from Egypt”. The article was not specifically about Jews, which is stated in the first two sentences. it is in part about Jews and discusses antisemitic persecution, ie forced signatures stating that they were voluntarily emigrating, confiscation of assets, etc. But it’s also about the Armenian, Greek, Italian, Maltese, and other communities who were targeted by Nasser’s policies and stripped their Egyptian citizenship.

Hello! I've noticed some things going on in this Wikipedia talk page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world

Which is probably where everyone uninformed is going to be getting their information if Mizrahi Jews are ever brought up. There's been edit warring over articles already, and certain articles have pretty stark tonal differences from their pre-oct 7 counterparts, so it does seem like this one might be caught up in it eventually.

Two comments i'm wondering about are the last one by Gamalny, which mirrors a lot of comments you'll hear if Jews in Arab countries is ever brought up, and the response to the name change by Onceinawhile.

Those two seem to be the common sentiment and directly contradicts what I've heard basically every Jew with Mizrahi ancestry say about their ancestors experience, but word of mouth/blogs don't really account for too much. Do you happen to have anything to push back against it? If Gamalnys comment is any indicator, its going to be really damn annoying if that gets picked up to turbo boost the colonizer narrative.

i’m speechless. this is. horrific.

i’m gonna respond with more info tomorrow when i have time to collect some solid sources but i’m posting it now in case anyone has any sources to recommend or anything to say abt this. quite frankly evil comment. like sorry but this is on the same level as holocaust denial to me. this is disgusting and i hope this person never has to suffer any of the horrific things they’re denying happened to sephardi and maghrebi and mizrahi jews.