The word “antisemitism” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2015. Today the opening carries none. 10 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
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Well-poisoning is the act of malicious manipulation of potable water resources in order to cause illness or death, or to deny an opponent access to fresh water resources. Well poisoning has been historically documented as strategy during wartime since antiquity , and was used both offensively (as a terror tactic to disrupt and depopulate a target area) and defensively (as a scorched earth tactic to deny an invading army sources of clean water). Rotting corpses (both animal and human) thrown down wells were the most common implementation; in one of the earliest examples of biological warfare , corpses known to have died from common transmissible diseases of the Pre-Modern era such as bubonic plague or tuberculosis were especially favored for well-poisoning. Additionally, well poisoning was one of the three gravest antisemitic accusations made against Jews during this period (the other two being host desecration and blood libel ). Similar accusations were also made of Koreans living in Japan in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake . In both cases the accusation was never substantiated, but did lead to widescale persecution and pogroms against the group so accused.1
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Some factual claims in this article or section need to be verified. If you can do so, please leave a note on the talk page or adjust the article text as necessary, and then remove this notice. Well-poisoning (the malicious manipulation of potable water resources to cause illness or death) is potentially the gravest of three accusations historically brought against Jewish people as a whole (the other two being host desecration and blood libel .
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Well-poisoning is the act of malicious manipulation of potable water resources in order to cause illness or death, or to deny an opponent access to fresh water resources.Historically it was one of the gravest of three accusations brought against Jewish people as a whole (the other two being host desecration and blood libel ), for example in Europe following the Black Death (1348–1350).Such accusations were also made of Koreans living in Japan in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake .In both cases the accusation was never substantiated, but did lead to widescale persecution and pogroms against the group so accused.
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Well poisoning is the act of malicious manipulation of potable water resources in order to cause illness or death, or to deny an opponent access to fresh water resources. Well poisoning has been historically documented as a strategy during wartime since antiquity , and was used both offensively (as a terror tactic to disrupt and depopulate a target area) and defensively (as a scorched earth tactic to deny an invading army sources of clean water). Rotting corpses (both animal and human) thrown down wells were the most common implementation; in one of the earliest examples of biological warfare , corpses known to have died from common transmissible diseases of the Pre-Modern era such as bubonic plague or tuberculosis were especially favored for well-poisoning. Additionally, well poisoning was one of the three gravest antisemitic accusations made against Jews during this period (the other two being host desecration and blood libel ). Similar accusations were also made of Koreans living in Japan in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake . In both cases the accusation was never substantiated, but did lead to wide-scale persecution and pogroms against the group so accused.
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Malicious manipulation of potable water resources For the logical fallacy, see Poisoning the well . Well poisoning is the act of malicious manipulation of potable water resources in order to cause illness or death, or to deny an opponent access to fresh water resources. Well poisoning has been historically documented as a strategy during wartime since antiquity , and was used both offensively (as a terror tactic to disrupt and depopulate a target area) and defensively (as a scorched earth tactic to deny an invading army sources of clean water). Rotting corpses (both animal and human) thrown down wells were the most common implementation; in one of the earliest examples of biological warfare , corpses known to have died from common transmissible diseases of the Pre-Modern era such as bubonic plague or tuberculosis were especially favored for well-poisoning. Additionally, well poisoning was one of the three gravest antisemitic accusations made against Jews during the pre-modern period (the other two being host desecration and blood libel ). Similar accusations were also made of Koreans living in Japan in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake . In both cases the accusation was never substantiated, but did lead to wide-scale persecution and pogroms against the group so accused.
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Malicious manipulation of potable water resources For the logical fallacy, see Poisoning the well . Well poisoning is the act of malicious manipulation of potable water resources in order to cause illness or death, or to deny an opponent access to fresh water resources. Well poisoning has been historically documented as a strategy during wartime since antiquity , and was used both offensively (as a terror tactic to disrupt and depopulate a target area) and defensively (as a scorched earth tactic to deny an invading army sources of clean water). Rotting corpses (both animal and human) thrown down wells were the most common implementation; in one of the earliest examples of biological warfare , corpses known to have died from common transmissible diseases of the Pre-Modern era such as bubonic plague or tuberculosis were especially favored for well-poisoning.
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“antisemitism” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 10. Read the current article and compare.
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Where the word went
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“antisemitism” now appears 4× under Modern instances of antisemitic libel, 60% of the way down the article
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