Talk:Bassel al-Araj

translation from Arabic wikipedia

I began this page as a translation from the Arabic version of the al-Araj article, however I found that a number of claims in the Arabic article are unsupported with sources. I've attempted to provide references in English for the various claims made in this English article, and provided sources in Arabic where English sources aren't readily available. [1]

POV problems

Reads like a martyrology. Could use some balanced coverage of basic facts.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:23, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

These issues have not been resolved (see also: more recent concern in section below on this talk page). Passages like "al-Araj and his companions were subject to torture and mistreatment"... which is disputed, disputes of which are not in the article, or "He was engaged by the Israeli forces in a two-hour gunfight" clearly seeking to define responsibility rather than simply recount events (i.e. "A two-hour gunfight ensued", inadvisable passive voice but avoids any POV concern), or "Israeli forces... murdered al-Araj after his ammunition was depleted" (sourced to a post from Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, questions re reliability) just before adding "although Israeli reports state that al-Araj opened fire" (Sourced to JPost, reliable source re Israeli claims). As noted, this also brings up issues of reliability of sources. Lots from Palestinian NGOs and generally anti-Israel press outlets (Maan News, Samidoun, al Jazeera, Electronic Intifada) without many balanced or reliable sources (aside from AJ).

I'm not going to try to untangle all of this now, but I will add the relevant POV and sourcing tags to the page as both a warning and an invitation for help from other editors. Jbbdude (talk) 20:42, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

I just read a bit more of this article's history. It previously had a NPOV tag! It got removed by a user, who seems super active in discussions about Israel in particular (almost exclusively), because there was "no active discussion", not because NPOV issues had actually been resolved. This article was also nominated for AfD, potentially rightly so given notability, but the conversation clearly came to the opposite conclusion. It has seen all kinds of back and forth and minor edit wars, attempts to rhetorically blame one side or another (e.g. "fired upon/was fired upon", "Israeli occupation forces") rather than dispassionately and accurately provide information, etc. Lots of IP users, lots of SPAs. This article and its history are one big mess which needs to be sorted with some NPOV clarity. Probably a whole rewrite, with a wholesale replacement of sources. It will take some time. Removing the POV tag again without first fixing these issues is not acceptable and should not be attempted by any editor. It's vandalism. Jbbdude (talk) 20:58, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

“Murder”

The IDF didn’t murder him TonyRiley2021 (talk) 23:00, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

"IOF" and "Zionist" and other terminology

Using pro specific narrative like IOF not only makes it biased, but also creates a fake narrative, in addition. it was 'omitted' that he died in a gunfight with the IDF SWAT unit while he is armed. and not "sieged" nor 'executed' https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4931157,00.html 147.235.198.198 (talk) 09:45, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

There isn’t absolutely anything semantically or cognitively prejudiced to have the collective facts constructed along reality, where Israel colonial existence in west bank violates international laws and hence a warcrime that constitutes the actions of an occupying power. It’s far from any grey zone to get pretzeled at all and doesn’t manufacture a “pro” based narrative. 103.170.55.146 (talk) 00:50, 16 June 2024 (UTC)