At ‘Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon,’ Harvard Law Students Target Pages Of Law Firms That Criticized School's Response To Anti-Semitism

Washington Free Beacon, At Harvard-Hosted 'Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon,' Law Students Target the Pages of Firms That Criticized School's Response to Anti-Semitism:

Harvard Law students also edited Wikipedia to downplay anti-Semitic activity on college campuses.

Anti-Israel Harvard Law School students organized a workshop on the Ivy League campus earlier this month to edit the Wikipedia pages of more than a dozen prominent law firms, singling out some that threatened to stop recruiting at the school over its failure to rein in anti-Semitic activity.

Harvard’s National Lawyers Guild chapter, a left-wing legal advocacy group, hosted the "Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon" on April 2 at Harvard Law’s WCC student center, according to an announcement on Harvard Law’s website [Big Law, Big Secrets: Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon]. ...

Harvard Law student Aashna Avachat edited the Wikipedia pages of 14 law firms, mostly to add details of their representation of clients that the activist students deemed to be unsavory, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of Wikipedia edit logs.

Avachat edited the pages for the firms Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to soften the language about anti-Semitic activity on college campuses. Amid a wave of anti-Semitic protests following the Hamas attack on Israel, the two firms warned Harvard Law and others that they would cut back on recruiting on their campuses for failing to rein in anti-Semitic incidents. The edit logs show Avachat changed the term "antisemitic incidents" to "pro-Palestine protests," ... 

Jeff Neal, a spokesman for Harvard Law School, said the Wikipedia workshop "was organized by a student-run organization and does not represent the views of Harvard Law School." ...

Many of the edits take the law firms to task for representing corporate clients widely opposed by liberals.

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