Talk:Omid Safi
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[edit]Dr. Safi has a personal web page. www.omidsafi.com is the address. Is it appropriate to put his home page here? ~yfzulfikar —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yfzulfikar (talk • contribs) 02:43, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
Deir Yassin nonsense
[edit]Please don't put this crap back in here unless for some reason it gets picked up and covered by the mainstream press. The Jewish Press is not a reliable source for much of anything, but especially not for this kind of material in a BLP. I'm not saying that the incident didn't happen, I'm saying that whether or not reliable sources care that it happened is not yet established, and until it is we should leave it out.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 20:35, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
Your Brandeis center source used the hedge word "reportedly." That linked back to a blog, so what we have in that source is one blog reporting on what another blog said. The Jewish Press is not a reliable source for this kind of thing. Please take it to WP:RSN if you have doubts on this. Also, you cited Elder of Ziyon as if it were an independent source, when the Brandeis source was merely quoting Elder of Ziyon. Really, if this belongs in the article, some actual real-life reliable source will report on it, then you can put it in. It's just not getting any coverage outside the blogosphere right now, so it does not belong in a BLP.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 20:07, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Why this article needs a "criticism" section
[edit]- Just for the record. Omid Safi posted a photo of a landscape filled with dead Jews in a German concentration camp, and claimed that it was a photo of an Israeli atrocity committed against Palestinians. A blogger noticed. So Safi took it down and replaced it with a photo of Muslims killed by Maronite Christians in Lebanon, and claimed that it was an Israeli atrocity committed against Palestinians. At this point the Religion News Service took the post down. But as criticism of Safi began to spread across the web, the Boston Marathon bombings happened, and the press got distracted. Coverage or not, a college professor who posts a photo from a Nazi death camp and pretends it is an Israeli atrocity? Really?
- Here's the photo, [1] posted by a responsible Human Rights think tank. Judge for yourselves. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Winfield22 (talk • contribs) 23:54, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
- Your argument is that it would have been covered in reliable sources except the Boston thing distracted them? Do you have a source for this or did you think it up yourself? If what you say is correct, surely they'll become undistracted soon, you'll get a reliable source, and then there'll be no problem with putting the material in. What is the hurry? Furthermore, the assertion that Safi "pretended" that the photo was anything really needs a reliable source in itself.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 00:04, 23 April 2013 (UTC)