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Naz Shah

Naz Shah is a British Labour MP who was suspended from the party in 2016 and publicly admitted to using antisemitic language in past social media posts. Through October 2023 the opening quoted her: "The language I used was anti-Semitic, it was offensive," she said. Today the opening covers only her constituency and parliamentary roles with no mention of the episode, and antisemitism appears zero times in the opening though it survives twenty-three times in the article. A reader today learns her constituency and committee roles, and not that she publicly admitted her past language was antisemitic.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “antisemitism” appeared 3 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 23.
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The opening as it read in 2020

British Labour politician This article is about the politician Naseem Shah. Naseem Shah ( ) (born 13 November 1973 ) is a British Labour Party politician. She was elected at the 2015 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West , winning the seat from George Galloway of the Respect Party .1 In July 2018, she was appointed to a junior Shadow Ministerial role as Shadow Minister of State for Women and Equalities , working alongside the Shadow Secretary of State , Dawn Butler . https://members.parliament.uk/Opposition/Department?DepartmentId=104 Hunter, Rosemary; McGlynn, Clare; Rackley, Erika (30 September 2010). Feminist Judgments: From Theory to Practice . The language I used was anti-Semitic, it was offensive," she said.2

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“antisemitism” appeared 3 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 23. Read the current article and compare.
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Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.

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 1× under 1st term (2015-2017), 40% of the way down the article
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