A history of the land · c. 1000 BCE – today

This Land
Remembers

The story you’ve heard starts in 1948. This one starts three thousand years earlier: one people, one land, from David’s kingdom to today. Kingdoms and exiles, conquests and returns, and the long way home.

We watch 62,160 Wikipedia articles about Israel, the Jewish people and Islam, and have logged 11,281 findings in them. The audit →

The Wikipedia Audit · original research

They are deleting what happened, one word at a time.

We hold twenty years of Wikipedia’s Israel, Jewish and Islam articles, snapshot by snapshot, and we count what its editors take out. Every claim on this site links the exact revision it came from. Every number recomputes from public data.

62,160
Wikipedia articles about Israel, the Jewish people and Islam that we watch, chosen from the encyclopedia’s own lists rather than by us
7
times we saved the opening of every one of those articles, from 2005 to this month, so we can read what it used to say
11,281
findings: a word for what happened deleted, a subject redefined, a section gone. We measure every change to every article and most are ordinary editing; a finding is a change on an article Wikipedia itself flags as contested, or one that moves a word naming what happened. Each carries the old text, the new text and the edit that did it
7,979
of those articles have been changed in at least one of those ways
Exhibit A · check it yourself in ten seconds
Samir Kuntar, the one line Wikipedia serves to every search engine
2021“Lebanese mass murderer convicted of terrorism”their revision ↗
today“Lebanese militant”the live article ↗
He beat a four-year-old girl to death with a rifle butt and was convicted of murder and terrorism. The conviction now survives only inside the article, never in the line search engines and language models quote. The case file holds every version since 2005.
3.05×
Articles about attacks on Israelis and articles about attacks by Israelis lost the words naming the attacker at the same rate, 16.02% against 15.52%. But articles about Israeli actions gained the words apartheid, genocide and war crime 3.05 times as often. The encyclopedia softens evenly and accuses in one direction.
4,921
article openings have had one of 25 tracked words taken out of them. Most were not deleted but moved down the page, out of the part search engines quote and language models read.
119/yr
article openings losing the word “terror” every year since October 7, up from 29/year in the late 2000s. The fastest removal rate in the record.
4,895
of those removals are still gone today, twenty years on. 26 ever came back.
The record

The part they say is not allowed to be counted

70%

Four jihadist groups caused seventy per cent of the world’s terrorism deaths in 2025

Islamic State, JNIM, the Pakistani Taliban and al-Shabaab: 3,869 of 5,582 deaths. None of them fights Israel, and almost everyone they kill is Muslim. On the same index, Israel ranks tenth.

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13 centuries

The slave trade that is never taught next to the one that is

The Atlantic trade ran roughly 350 years and is examined constantly. The trans-Saharan, Red Sea and Indian Ocean trades ran from the seventh century into the twentieth, and Saudi Arabia abolished slavery in 1962.

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850,000

Jews driven out of Arab and Muslim countries after 1948

Property confiscated, citizenship stripped, communities two and a half thousand years old ended inside a decade. Iraq’s Jews went from over 130,000 to almost none. No one calls them refugees.

The evidence →
109

The number is a hate symbol, and its sequel is a threat

The ADL files 109 in its extremist symbol database, alongside 110, meaning make ours the next. The list pads cities and counts France four times, because France expelled its Jews four times and invited them back four times.

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85

Killed at a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, seven thousand miles from Jerusalem

A museum in Brussels. A school in Toulouse. A kosher supermarket in Paris on a Friday. A synagogue in Copenhagen during a bat mitzvah. The target list answers whether the grievance is Israeli policy or Jews.

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2,000 years

The same four accusations, in every century that had a name for us

He poisons the wells. He murders our children. He secretly rules. He belongs to no country. The costume changes every hundred years and the charge sheet does not.

The evidence →
20

Not 870

The UN office that counts West Bank deaths one at a time attributes twenty of the first 999 to settlers, and 967 to Israeli forces. The viral figure is the total, relabelled, and it is checkable in four minutes.

The evidence →
detailing

The edit summary that deleted the word militant from the PLO

6 September 2023, one month before October 7. The same editor then wrote in “internationally recognized as the official representative of the Palestinian people” under “rewrite first para for more clarity”. Three edits removing “palestinian terrorist” elsewhere are filed under “removed distortions”.

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1,200

October 7, and the year spent denying it happened

The largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, filmed by the people committing it, and denied within weeks by people who had watched the footage.

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The receipts

Nothing here asks you to take our word

7,979 articles

The case files

One page per rewritten article: the opening as it read at its fullest, every removed sentence struck and dated, every snapshot since 2005, every revision linked.

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the whole corpus

The drift report

The charts. What the encyclopedia’s vocabulary did over twenty years, which words were deleted era by era, and what changed in the latest window.

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278 pinned removals

Who made the cuts

Every removal we could pin to an exact edit, grouped by the account that made it, with Wikipedia’s own diffs. One edit proves nothing. The repetition is the finding.

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380 articles

Wikipedia, corrected

Their article in their own layout, with the framing marked where it sits. Not a parody: their text, unedited, with our findings flagged on the exact phrases.

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119 confirmed

Renamed & retitled

Articles that stopped being their own article, and titles where the word was removed outright, each with the mover’s stated reason quoted from Wikipedia’s log.

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77% of the traffic

Weighted by who reads it

WikiProject Palestine reports 17,476,842 views across its 1,000 articles in one month. Of the hundred most-read, 68 carry a finding, and those 68 hold 77% of the readership. Their own pageview data, over our ledger.

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33 confirmed

The moves no keyword catches

A designation dropped, a perpetrator unnamed, standing conferred. Each confirmed against the live article, with the editors’ own summaries attached.

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CC BY 4.0

The open data

The measurements themselves, as JSON and CSV. Recompute every number on this site, or argue with the method. Both are the point.

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