When did the Palestine Is Still the Issue article stop using the word ""?

The word appeared 0 times in the opening at its peak in 2005. It is absent from today's opening, the part search engines quote and AI systems train on, checked against the live article on 2026-08-02.

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Q: Did Wikipedia remove the word "" from the Palestine Is Still the Issue article?

Yes. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it "issue is a bafta-nominated 2002 carlton television documentary film written and reported by john pilger". Today it says "issue is a 2002 carlton television documentary". We saved the article's opening paragraph at 5 moments between 2010 and 2025, and the counts come from those saved copies.

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “issue is a bafta-nominated 2002 carlton television documentary film written and reported by john pilger”. Today it says “issue is a 2002 carlton television documentary”.

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 2026-08-02. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “issue is a bafta-nominated 2002 carlton television documentary film written and reported by john pilger”. Today it says “issue is a 2002 carlton television documentary”.

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The opening as it read in 2010

Palestine is Still the Issue is a BAFTA-nominated 2002 Carlton Television documentary film written and reported by John Pilger , produced by Christopher Martin and directed by Tony Stark. In the film, which was inspired by the book Drinking The Sea at Gaza by Amira Haas, John Pilger returns to the Middle East and questions why there has been no progress towards peace .¹

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Then

issue is a bafta-nominated 2002 carlton television documentary film written and reported by john pilger

Now

issue is a 2002 carlton television documentary

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