The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, last week rejected two Board of Trustees candidates during its community elections allowing regular contributors to directly choose board representatives. Its purported rationale included one candidate’s involvement with a major community newsletter and another’s social media comments attacking Israel. The rejections provoked community outrage , including from former board members and staff. Petitions and statements opposing the decision, some blaming Israeli and United States government pressure, generally pledged to boycott the election.

It comes as the online encyclopedia owned by the Wikimedia Foundation has become the subject of increasingly negative reporting over left-wing and anti-Israeli bias. Multiple Congressional representati

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