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A group of anti-Israel @Wikipedia editors collaborated to manipulate the lead of the "Zionism" article to equate the movement for Jewish self-determination with ethnic cleansing. They then put a "moratorium" on the lead, freezing it in place for at least a year. This is the single most important resource online defining Zionism to the world. In late July, a final attempt to get Wikipedia admins to reconsider this freeze was rejected — and the editor who made the appeal banned. As a result, the most important section of the most important online resource on Zionism has been deliberately poisoned by a handful of bad-faith editors coordinating with each other. This is what will feed Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and every other frontier AI model. This was the strategy and with the moratorium — a concept these editors more or less invented in this context — it was a stunning victory. These editors are members of the "Gang of 40" – a group of pro-Hamas editors I exposed in an October investigation which showed how they work together in small cells to make around 1,000,000 edits to 10,000 articles related to the Palestine-Israel Articles topic area, essentially capturing the entire space. My report triggered an arbitration proceeding by Wikipedia's "Supreme Court," ArbCom, which banned 6 of the editors. While the proceeding was under way, just weeks before their bans were handed down, these editors implemented their moratorium – one further victory in their years-long campaign. Wiki-terrorism: Radical Wikipedia editors with apparent ties to foreign actors, including Iran, have frozen into place a line defining Zionism as “ethnic cleansing.” The edit is now locked for a full year, unprecedented on the site, reports @AshleyRindsberg.