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Al-Aqsa TV

Al-Aqsa TV is the Hamas-run television channel broadcasting from Gaza, including children's programming. In 2010 and again in 2023 the opening noted the channel's children's shows 'have been accused by some in the Western world of promoting "antisemitic" views.' Today the opening describes the channel's programs only as 'news and propaganda promoting Hamas, children's shows, and religiously inspired entertainment,' with the antisemitism accusation gone though the word survives 7 times elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns the channel airs children's programming and propaganda, not that its children's shows were accused of promoting antisemitic content.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “antisemitism” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 7.
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The opening as it read in 2010

Al-Aqsa TV ( ) is the official Hamas-run television channel.1 Some of tts programming has been alleged to include ideologically tinged children's shows, strident news talk, and religiously inspired entertainment.2 It is currently directed by Palestinian Legislative Council member Fathi Ahmad Hammad .3 The station airs TV shows for children, some of which have been accused by some in the Western world of promoting "antisemitic" views. . " "Anti-Israel 'Mickey Mouse' row escalates" " .4

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Today
“antisemitism” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 7. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined between 2010 and 2025.

Then

official hamas-run television channel

Now

television channel run by hamas

Where the word went

It left the opening. It did not leave the article. Wikipedia moved it down the page, where a reader arriving from a search result will not reach it.

  • “antisemitism” now appears 2× under Criticism, 40% of the way down the article
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