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Jewish terrorism

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “religious terrorism committed by jews”. Today it says “terrorism”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-03.
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The opening as it read in 2015

Organizational structures Financing Fronting Radicalization ( online ) Training camp Death squad Clandestine cell system Leaderless resistance Lone wolf Domestic Methods Tactics Agro-terrorism Aircraft hijacking list Beheading Guillotine #Reign of Terror Islamic views Salafi Bombing Animal-borne Car list Improvised Letter Proxy Threat Bioterrorism Cyberterrorism Dry run Environmental Hostage-taking Incitement to terrorism Individual terror Insurgency Kidnapping Nuclear Paper Piracy Propaganda of the deed Shooting School Spree Stabbing Stochastic Suicide attack Country categories Rockets and mortars Urban terrorism Vehicle-ramming Relationship to states Response to terrorism v t e Jewish religious terrorism is a type of religious terrorism committed by extremists within Judaism motivated by religious rather than ethnic or nationalistic beliefs. Jewish terrorism in Israel . Our Jewish terrorism dataset consists of a list of terror incidents perpetrated by Jewish terrorists in Israel.

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Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “religious terrorism committed by jews”. Today it says “terrorism”. Read the current article and compare.
201020152020Oct '232025
terror988910
hostage11111
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.

What Wikipedia says this is

Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2010, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.

Then

religious terrorism committed by jews

Now

terrorism

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