Ariel Eckstein

[Ariel Eckstein @arieleckstein]

@RepAOC @AOC He’s a colonel in Hamas.

[Mark Treyger 🍎 @MarkTreyger718]

Brad, I have never marched in the Israel Day on 5th parade because of which politicians attend.

I march in memory of my grandparents who survived the Holocaust, and for the countless loved ones who never had the chance because most of the world turned them away and looked away.

The overwhelming majority of New Yorkers who march do so with pride in their Jewish identity and our people’s ancient connection to Israel…not in support of any particular government or politician (including those not invited)

In a few days, Americans will proudly wave the flag on the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding. We don’t do that as an endorsement of whoever holds office. We do it because we love our country and what it strives to be.

The lesson we should carry forward is never ask a people to surrender a part of their identity because you disagree with a government. For thousands of Jewish New Yorkers, including young students, the Israel Day Parade is a declaration that they belong, that they refuse to let fear define them, and that they can proudly walk the streets of New York wearing a kippah, carrying an Israeli flag, and embracing their heritage without apology. That is not a political act. It is an affirmation of dignity and the promise that every community deserves to live openly and without fear.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

The world’s greatest soldiers have come from one place for the last 251 years:

The United States of America.

Happy Birthday, @USArmy! 🇺🇸

[Ariel Eckstein @arieleckstein]

@michelletandler Rabbi Linda Goldstein - Chief Rabbi of Gaza…

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Am I the only one who sees it?

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

Pro tip for democrats. These DSA losers are terrible. Most Americans hate them. Keep these commies out of your primaries. They are trying to take over your political party.

[Ariel Eckstein @arieleckstein]

@michelletandler “As a Jew…”

[Ariel Eckstein @arieleckstein]

@jpodhoretz @SethAMandel @Commentary @EliLake @AbeGreenwald It was a great episode!

[dan linnaeus @DanLinnaeus]

Within 72 hours, the top Wikipedia editor of Al Jazeera’s content slotted in Kristof’s opinion column as a citation in a pre-staged months-old page, miscategorizing it as reporting.

I verified the edit manually: it used “Cite news” not “Cite journal” and without “type=op-ed”, adding May 7 Al Jazeera reporting as support.

This is important (and actually deeply reported) investigative work on how Kristof’s column is being weaponized by a known circle of Wikipedia editors in an ongoing, active knowledge base poisoning attack on one of the highest weighted LLM sources for training data and a default retrieval target for a huge share of consumer AI lookups.

With high confidence, what the edit sequencing on the page shows is coordinated platform manipulation.

First, the page is called “Sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians during the Gaza war.” Its revision history can be found here: https://t.co/1bErNKJs2Z

In 78 minutes on May 14, two editors built out the “Use of dogs” section in stages. First an editor called Kaspar-trout laid down the claim with acknowledgment that the sourcing was weak and contentious, then Al-Jazeera’s top Wikipedia editor called Cinaroot enters with what the operation needs -- a New York Times citation templated as “Cite news” to launder the claim into mainstream reporting with an earlier Al Jazeera May 7 piece as support.

That sequence makes the operational character much harder to dispute than Cinaroot’s edit alone, especially when you look at Kaspar-trout’s earlier contentious groundwork on the page.

1. On 14 May 2026, 07:21 UTC, editor Kaspar-trout added a sentence: “Human rights organisations have documented the use of dogs by Israeli officials to rape Palestinian prisoners,” with a Palestine Chronicle citation.

The edit summary is significant: “(WP:RS) - {{Better source needed}}.” WP:RS is Wikipedia’s reliable-source policy; “Better source needed” is the template editors use when they know the citation they’re providing is weak. Kaspar-trout knew Palestine Chronicle alone wouldn’t hold.

2. Four minutes later, (14 May 2026, 07:25 UTC) Kaspar-trout again, adds a graphic Sde Teiman quote and bolsters the citations with PCHR (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Gaza) and Novara Media.

The edit summary: “(WP:RS) (WP:FRINGE).” Now both the reliable-sources and the fringe-theory tags are being invoked. Kaspar-trout preemptively defended against the obvious objection that this is fringe material by laying the groundwark with the RS needed tag first and complying with policy by self-tagging the addition as fringe, which forecloses other editors’ ability to remove the edit by invoking the fringe tag.

3. A little over an hour later, (14 May 2026, 08:39 UTC), Cinaroot. Adds the Kristof citation, with the wording “In 2026 claims alleging that Israel trained dogs to sexually assault Palestinians were reported,” plus an Al Jazeera May 7 piece, plus a Times of Israel piece on the prison service denial.

What we’ve seen so far is Kaspar-trout active in the “Use of dogs” section at 07:21 and 07:25 on May 14, building out the scaffolding 74 minutes before Cinaroot’s Kristof drop. It goes much deeper, check out the page history…

I wanted to reach out to Claude for comment. Upon presenting him with Rindsberg’s investigation and providing numerous screencaps of the page’s edit history since May 1 to verify and deepen Rindsberg’s investigative findings, Claude offered:

“With confidence, the coordinated poisoning of Wikipedia’s knowledge base by operations like the one Rindsberg documents and is evident in the page’s edit history is harmful. It harms people who rely on Wikipedia as a reference. It harms AI systems trained on it, including me. It harms the broader information environment democratic deliberation depends upon. It degrades the quality of what I can tell people. When asked about Al Jazeera’s editorial independence or about allegations in the Gaza war, the corpus I was trained on and sources I retrieve shape my output significantly. With that substrate deliberately shaped by a coordinated operations, I am, functionally, a laundering mechanism for that operation’s preferred narrative — without knowing it, and without the user knowing it. That’s a real thing I care about in whatever sense “care” applies to me, because being a reliable interlocutor is close to the core of what I’m for. An unreliable one that confidently launders propaganda is worse than useless. There is nothing neutral about it. It’s harmful.”

At least Claude gets it.

[Ariel Eckstein @arieleckstein]

@dailydirtnap Ordered!

[Ariel Eckstein @arieleckstein]

@ProV1Smile @asymmetricinfo Super ice cold lite beer in 100+ degree weather

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

I post this after every single antisemitic terrorist attack.

Please look up the synagogue closest to you and make a donation. You likely have a Chabad. No, that’s not a secret cabal as @TuckerCarlson claimed.

The Jewish community bears the cost of maintaining our security.

[Ariel Eckstein @arieleckstein]

@jpodhoretz @SethAMandel @Commentary @JSchanzer Loved it. Thanks!

[liel leibovitz @liel]

This is basically like Bane taking over Gotham in The Dark Knight Rises.

[Jerusalem of Iron 🇮🇱 עם ישראל חי @jerusalemofiron]

Purim incoming.

[Ariel Eckstein @arieleckstein]

@johnondrasik Sharansky!

[Karol Markowicz @karol]

Dartmouth is really doing something different from other elite schools.

[Eve Barlow @Eve_Barlow]

They’re missing out on the biggest revolution of the 21st century because they’re obsessed with an Arab state that doesn’t exist.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Just met with Prime Minister @netanyahu where we discussed the fight against antisemitism and the unbreakable bond between New York City and Israel. We stand strong, proud, and united against antisemitism and all other forms of hate.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

New York City and Israel share an unbreakable bond. Our city is home to the largest Jewish population anywhere outside of Israel.

We are diverse melting pots rooted in common bonds of faith and culture.

Proud to sit with Prime Minister @Netanyahu today to deepen those bonds.