Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration

I think we've all noticed the (unsurprising) recent proliferation in new articles that quickly get AFD'd or merged. Meanwhile, there are still articles that have not yet been written but would easily pass GNG as stand-alones. I thought for editors who are interested in making new articles in this topic area, it might be useful to gather some redlinks and greenlinks to turn blue. Here are my suggestions (and GScholar searches for convenience):

• Anti-Zionism and antisemitism
• Zionist transfer (or 'Transfer' in Zionism)
• Palestinians under military government (1948-1966 in Israel, 1967-... in occupied territories)
• Looting in Palestine or Looting of Palestine or Looting during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (includes looting of homes, archives, antiquities, etc., compare with Looting of Poland in World War II, Looting by Russian forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine)
• Biological warfare in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Other suggestions welcome, unless this was the wrong place to post this, in which case, sorry! Levivich (talk) 07:55, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Draft:Palestinian cultural genocide in case anyone wants to work on that. Levivich (talk) 17:59, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello, the entries mentioned in List of towns and villages depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war, List of villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict and Category:Villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict and other articles also in other languages do not have unified/appropriate properties in wikidata, about 20 out of the 600~ depopulated villages are clearly marked as such in wikidata, others are left as instances of "human settelment", "village" or "former human settlement", and with inconsistent (or non-existing property for) location, country ...etc, and a few have the properties relating to the timeframe of their depopulation. wikidata is still lacking/behind in some "technical" level such as describing the former population. But those still require consistency and inclusion of missing properties.

Adding apropriatly consistent properties to the remaining hundreds of items as this is disregarded/underacknowledged information is vital for any general attempt for reflection/contextualization that is genuine. Uwe a (talk) 12:40, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

At Destruction of cultural heritage during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip#List of sites, we have a table based on a UNESCO list published 5 days ago, showing the 69 main cultural sites destroyed in Gaza. Many do not yet have articles about them.

Please help in creating articles about these destroyed sites.

Onceinawhile (talk) 09:28, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

The red field in the WikiProject's header says: "This project page can be edited by all members. To become a member, please write a short message in the Member statements section" but the Member statements were removed to Archive. Maybe someone more experienced can remove that sentence and then remove this discussion topic ~ VanderlekD (talk) 10:27, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi. Where are the member statements in the archive? Can you post the link here? Thanks, HG1 | Talk 15:28, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Israel_Palestine_Collaboration/Archive_3#h-Member_statements-2008-01-16T17:09:00.000Z ~ VanderlekD (talk) 15:35, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. How about if the member statements are moved to a subpage, so that participants can add new statements there? HG1 | Talk 15:55, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Note: Decisions on this topic affect all pages about Israeli settlements

On this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Chabad about an Israeli settlement established in 1949, I noticed that there is no mention of destroying a Palestinian settlement or expelling people. The only reference is that it was a "depopulated" Palestinian village. By not mentioning the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the settlement but mentioning the "Terrorist attack on the vocational school" the story becomes one-sided.

My suggestion is to add at least one sentence about the Nakba, referring to the Nakba page. This probably applies to most pages about Israeli municipalities/settlements. To avoid having to create a specific description for each municipality/settlement, my suggestion is to use this generic sentence if possible: "During the Nakba, Zionist militias forcibly expelled about half of the inhabitants of Palestine from their homes." VanderlekD (talk) 11:37, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Please help build out the new article Peace discourse in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Thank you. Onceinawhile (talk) 18:40, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Friendly fire during the Gaza war has been proposed for deletion, following a dramatic edit which I've reversed for now. Various editors have tried to start a discussion on the future of the page but have not been noticed by active editors.

I've called for a discussion on the talk page here, please let us know your views.

The ongoing deletion discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Friendly fire during the Gaza war, I am proposing that an AfD be postponed until more editors have engaged. 20WattSphere (talk) 02:30, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I know most editors in the IP-area are overstretched, but if you can, spare a moment on the James Ossuary. Lots of rather questionable so-called "scholars" regularly added by ...non-established wp-editors (to put it diplomatically). Huldra (talk) 23:33, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Assassination of Anas Al-Sharif#Requested move 11 August 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 01:08, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ohio State University pro-Palestinian campus protests during the Gaza war#Requested move 19 August 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 10:03, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

Gaza genocide has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Opm581 ^{(talk | he/him)} 03:32, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

Someone might like to review an edit request recently made and the edit I made attenpting to resolve the issues it pointed out.

Can be seen here: Talk:Ilan Pappé#Misrepresentation of Pappe's writing. - IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 04:01, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

More input would be welcome in this discussion regarding the claim that "The Palestinians indirectly, and in some ways directly, aided in the destruction of European Jewry".

Talk:Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world#Removal of Benny Morris's "views on historical representation"

- IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 16:36, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Politics of food in the Arab–Israeli conflict#Requested move 10 October 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 13:16, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gaza war hostage crisis#Requested move 3 October 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. veko. (user | talk | contribs) he/him 20:36, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

I'd like to request additional opinions for Talk:Gaza war#Genocide. It's a discussion about if one of the lead paragraphs have strange wording. I'm pretty biased on this topic, so more mouths would be helpful. Thanks in advance. monkey_smashing^keyboards (talk) 03:48, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

A discussion about maintaining neutrality and balanced sourcing in the article Gaza genocide has begun at Talk:Gaza genocide#Statement from Jimbo Wales. Because this topic falls within the shared scope of Israeli–Palestinian coverage, editors participating in WikiProject Israel–Palestine Collaboration are invited to contribute viewpoints on how best to ensure compliance with Wikipedia’s core content policies (WP:NPOV and WP:RS). Jimbo Wales (talk) 16:11, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gaza war#Requested move 4 November 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. --MikutoH ^talk! 03:28, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Editors here are invited to this MFD about a putitive article covering the 1948 Arab–Israeli War,, the Suez Crisis, the Six Day War, and the Yom Kippur War. I'm particularly interested in opinions about how useful such an article would be if it made it in to the main namespace. Graham87 (talk) 13:43, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

There is an RfC about inclusion of 186,000 death toll estimate in infobox at the Gaza genocide article. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 23:11, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

More opinions would be appreciated at Talk:Weaponization of antisemitism#Ms Rachel original research. Thank you, IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 07:07, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

More opinions would also be very much appreciated at the various other ongoing discussions at that talk page. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 22:36, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

There is a current discussion about the closing of a previous discussion about the NPOV in the lead of the Gaza genocide article. More opinions would be appreciated at that and a similar discussion about other ways to improve the NPOV in that article. VidanaliK (talk to me) 22:47, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

I can't add myself to the member list because said last two lines do not exist. How do I add myself any other way? VidanaliK (talk to me) 22:54, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ma'ayan Harod#Requested move 28 December 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 08:43, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

On Wikipedia, every mention of Palestine pre-1948 always has the adjective "Mandatory" patched in front of it, from the British Mandate for Palestine. In practice, the territory was called "Palestine" more often than anything else. I don't remember ever reading "Mandatory Palestine" outside of Wikipedia, and my gut feeling tells me it's a WikiNeologism meant to avoid rawly casting the spell "Palestine".

Is "Mandatory Palestine" attested outside of Wikipedia and its distributaries? Google ngram shows that its usage exploded in the 2010s, perhaps fueled by this site. Shoshin000 (talk) 18:14, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22mandatory+palestine%22&btnG= - IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 18:31, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

Excuse me for just posting the link to Google Scholar results without explanation. But the answer to your question "Is "Mandatory Palestine" attested outside of Wikipedia and its distributaries?" is yes. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 18:41, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

The article has been moved. The article is 'an incomplete list of Israeli museums, some of which are located in East Jerusalem.' Referring to things beyond the green line as 'in Israel' is obviously inconsistent with NPOV. I notified the mover, but I think their primary interest is probably cross-article consistency. They noted the existence of List of museums in Palestine, which may be pertinent to discussions/solutions. Sean.hoyland (talk) 13:20, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

@Sean.hoyland: Basing the list around a country is fairly typical, but I can see why it would be difficult here. Is it worth sticking with the new title for consistency and removing museums beyond the green line? Or at least putting them in a new section? Richard Nevell (talk) 21:35, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

I restored the original name. The move was done without discussion. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 21:46, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Talk:Palestinian genocide accusation#Requested move 5 January 2026. -- Cdjp1 (talk) 13:51, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

• Template:Infobox Israel village and redirects to that template are used for over a thousand locations.
• The template source includes | subdivision_name = {{if empty|{{{country|}}}|Israel}}. This means - if the country parameter is empty, use Israel as the default value, otherwise use the value of country specified.
• Since the vast majority of pages that use this template are for locations in Israel, the empty parameter handling and default value of Israel makes sense. Where a value for country has been included it looks like is often {{ISR}}.
• For the relatively small number of cases where this template has been used for locations outside of Israel, Israeli settlements and outposts in the Israeli occupied territories, the default value does not make sense because it generates 100+ unambiguous NPOV policy violations, stating (in unattributed wikivoice) that a location in Palestine is in Israel for example. This results from the country parameter being left empty for these kinds of locations outside of Israel. I don't know the background to that somewhat puzzling decision to not just say where the location is using the ISO name of the country or something similar. Locations in the West Bank are in the West Bank, and the West Bank is in Palestine. There is nothing complicated or controversial about this spatial relationship from Wikipedia's perspective. It is an easily verified objective fact about the spatial relationships of spatial objects. It seems that previous versions of the template did not default to Israel as the country, now it does, and that seems reasonable given the usage statistics and template usage notes.
• Given that the template usage notes say "This template is meant for villages in Israel. For settlements that are not in Israel, use {{Infobox settlement}}." and "country (optional): defaults to "Israel" if no value is provided. For settlements outside of Israel, use {{Infobox settlement}}, or use |country= with a different value." you can ask - 'why is Template:Infobox Israel village used rather than Template:Infobox settlement'? An answer can be found in Template_talk:Infobox_Israel_village#Purpose_of_the_template from Courtesy ping: Number 57.
  • This is a wrapper of Infobox settlement, and is used to make it more convenient to add Israel-specific information (like district, regional council, settlement movement etc). For example, if you were to use Infobox settlement, you'd have to use the parameters subdivision_type, subdivision_type1, subdivision_type2, subdivision_type3, subdivision_type4 etc. The wrapper (this template) automatically fills these in with Israel-specific subdivisions and creates Israel-specific parameters (district, council etc).
• Even if you find this explanation unpersuasive, switching over to Infobox settlement for all of the Israeli settlements and outposts appears to be a bit of non-trivial exercise. If someone wants to volunteer to do that, that would be great.
• In the meantime I have taken the bold step of retaining the template usage so that Israel-specific information can be retained and following the "or use |country= with a different value." template instructions by replacing empty country parameters with Palestine (without a flag) for locations in the West Bank that use this template. An alternative approach would be to follow the example of the locations in Israel and use the {{PSE}} standard three letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Palestine. Replacing empty country parameters with Palestine (without a flag) for locations in the West Bank, in my view, is a more sensible, standard, policy compliant solution than retaining the NPOV policy violations of placing locations in the wrong country or reverting the template to a previous version that weirdly, for a rules-based encyclopedia, appears to go out of its way to avoid telling readers the country that contains the populated location. The updates do not impact pages about settlements that don't use this template e.g. Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and many others. The updates obviously do not address locations in the Golan Heights.
• I understand that there may be editors who don't think this is the best solution. They are welcome to explain their reasoning and propose solutions that are consistent with our purpose and the rules. An RfC is one way to find a multi-article solution and resolve disagreements.

Sean.hoyland (talk) 10:12, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

• The problem was that someone (who has made multiple problematic edits to widely used templates) edited the template code late last year, which resulted in 'Israel' always appearing as the country (which did not previously happen as you are correct that it is an NPOV violation). I have now fixed this error, so there shouldn't be an issue with using this template for settlements. Number 57 15:16, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Palestinian sports during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip#Requested move 14 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Abesca (talk) 16:50, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

I have proposed merging Moshava remnants in Kfar Malal into Kfar Malal. Discussion at Talk:Kfar Malal. Zero^talk 07:21, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

A new article from Haaretz reveals significant new documents shedding light on the 1948 Palestine war.

Haaretz, 27 Feb 2026, Adam Raz, Terror Was Needed to Make Arabs Leave: What the Israeli Army Did in 1948, Revealed https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-02-27/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/terror-was-needed-to-make-arabs-leave-what-israels-army-did-in-48-revealed/0000019c-9a4b-d930-ad9f-feffd8c80000

- IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 11:21, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Criticism of Israel#Requested move 22 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 04:57, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Talk:Tantura massacre#Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 5 March 2026. A lot of information here to verify/assess. About a Forensic Architecture investigation into mass graves from the Tantura massacre. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 10:14, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

There is an RfC at Talk:Ashkenazi Jews#RfC: "the Ashkenazim originate from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah" in WikiVoice? إيان (talk) 05:40, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Allegations of genocide in the October 7 attacks#Requested move 15 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Dr vulpes (Talk) 02:14, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Please see Talk:Golan_Heights#RfC:_short_description, thanks, Huldra (talk) 20:05, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Killing of Bani Odeh family#Requested move 16 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 10:43, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Allegations of genocide in the October 7 attacks#Requested move 15 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Qwerty123M (talk) 12:24, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi all, I have been discussing this page on the talk page with the original editor. They have made some edits that have improved it already but I think undue weight is given to the PA position give multiple independent outlets clearly confirm the strike as Iranian. I would appreciate another opinion on how the article reads at the moment. Thanks! Anguswiki (talk) 18:37, 8 April 2026 (UTC)