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The Drift Report · 2026-07-30

They are deleting what happened, one word at a time.

We track 61,944 Wikipedia articles about Israel, the Jewish people and Islam, found through Wikipedia's own category lists. We scraped every article's revision history back to 2005 and saved our own copies. Words for what was done to Jews have been leaving those articles: the designation on the group that carried out the attack, the name of the massacre, the finding of antisemitism. This page holds the record of what left, when, and who took it out.

red highlight written in by editors struck grey removed by editors text we saved: the record our measurements
1,793Wikipedia articles have deleted the word for what happened “terror” removed from 643 Wikipedia articles“massacre” removed from 196 Wikipedia articles“antisemitism” removed from 272 Wikipedia articles“jihad” removed from 239 Wikipedia articles“militant” removed from 274 Wikipedia articles“islamist” removed from 244 Wikipedia articles“martyr” removed from 189 Wikipedia articles“hostage” removed from 78 Wikipedia articles
643 → 119Wikipedia articles that deleted the word “terror”, and the ones where it is gone from the entire article196 → 58Wikipedia articles that deleted the word “massacre”, and the ones where it is gone from the entire article272 → 58Wikipedia articles that deleted the word “antisemitism”, and the ones where it is gone from the entire article239 → 68Wikipedia articles that deleted the word “jihad”, and the ones where it is gone from the entire article29 → 119Wikipedia articles a year deleting the word “terror”: the late 2000s rate, and the rate since October 7214 → 64hand-audited articles, and the number still reading exactly as they did at review20 → 121Wikipedia articles a year that gained the word “terror”, mostly new attacks getting written up: the late 2000s rate, and the rate now6 → 203mentions of “genocide” aimed at Israel across every watched opening: October 6, 2023, and today0.3 → 0.9“genocide” in every sense, mentions per 100 openings, 2005 and today3,676 → 1,384Wikipedia articles that deleted a tracked word, and the ones where it is gone from the entire article78% → 96%of the articles that existed on October 6, 2023: openings rewritten since, and articles edited at all9x → 30xgrowth since 2005: the number of watched articles, and mentions of “genocide” in their openings
2025 Manchester synagogue attack2026-07-30 → 2026-08-01
Editors removed the word “Terrorist” from this article's opening in the last 2 days.
Then · the record we saved · revision 1359132502

Terrorist attack in England On 2 October 2025, during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, a man drove a black Kia Picanto into pedestrians before stabbing worshippers at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation, a synagogue in Higher Crumpsall, a northern suburb of the city of Manchester in North West England. Three people were killed in the incident, including the attacker and a worshipper who were both shot dead by police. Three other people were injured …

Now · after the editors · the current text

Terrorist attack in England On 2 October 2025, during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, a man drove a black Kia Picanto into pedestrians before stabbing worshippers at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation, a synagogue in Higher Crumpsall, a northern suburb of the city of Manchester in North West England. Three people were killed in the incident, including the attacker and a worshipper who were both shot dead by police. Three other people were injured …

We saved both versions. On the right, struck grey is what the editors removed and red is what they wrote in. This is the newest “terror” removal our latest pass found; it updates every pass.
All 61,944 watched articles, measured by machine
96%of the 55,249 articles that existed on October 6, 2023 have been edited since October 7
78%had their opening rewritten between October 6, 2023 and July 2025
6,165edited in the last 2 days alone; 372 changed their opening, 12 moved the tracked words
The hand-audited core: 214 articles we reviewed line by line in June 2026, saving a frozen copy of each
150 of 214have been edited by Wikipedia in the weeks since that review
61of those changed their opening paragraph
64still read exactly as we reviewed them

The three numbers that matter

What twenty years of saved Wikipedia openings come down to. Each one can be recomputed from the public data, and each is sized to screenshot.

1,793
Wikipedia articles have had the word for what happened deleted: terrorist, massacre, jihad, antisemitism
ilroot.com/drift · every number recomputable from the public data
643
of them lost “terror” from the opening, which is the part search engines quote and AI systems train on. In 119 it is gone from the rest of the article too
ilroot.com/drift · every number recomputable from the public data
119/yr
Wikipedia articles a year are losing “terror” since October 7, up from 29 a year in the 2000s
ilroot.com/drift · every number recomputable from the public data

The words Wikipedia is deleting

Start here, because this is the part that cannot be explained as coverage of new events. Below the line, in colour: article openings where editors took the word out. Above it, in grey: openings that gained it, which tracks new events getting written up. Since October 7, “terror” is removed from 119 openings a year, up from 29 a year in the late 2000s. That is the fastest rate we have measured.

17085085170written in / yr+20−29+11−13+9−92005 → 2010+42−45+20−18+18−152010 → 2015+45−40+20−16+20−182015 → 2020+79−58+44−25+37−232020 → Oct 6 '23+107−117+91−60+70−45Oct 6 '23 → 2025+144−121+117−57+62−522025 → 2026
“terror” scrubbed, per year“militant” scrubbed, per year“islamist” scrubbed, per yearwritten in, per year

Wikipedia is rewriting faster every year

We captured each article's opening paragraph at six fixed dates from 2005 to 2025, wherever the article existed on that date. This chart shows the chance an opening gets rewritten within one year, era by era. The red bar is the current rate, measured on the hand-audited set and put on the same yearly scale.

105%79%53%26%0%56%2005 → 20106551 of 665635%2010 → 201525552 of 2893732%2015 → 202033510 of 3929740%2020 → Oct 6 '2339790 of 4887359%Oct 6 '23 → 202543345 of 5524992%7 weeks '2661 of 214

The accusation vocabulary Wikipedia adopted

The other half of the exchange. How often the charged words appear per 100 article openings, at each moment. The dashed line is October 7, 2023.

543102005201020152020Oct 6 '2320252026Oct 7
genocidefamineapartheidcolonialoccupationantisemitism

Every tracked word across Wikipedia, at a glance

Twenty years per line, per 100 article openings. Red lines are the accusation vocabulary; steel lines are the words used to describe the attackers. The dashed mark on each line is October 7, 2023, and the arrow is the change since that day.

annexation▬
antisemitism▲ 19%
apartheid▬
blockade▲ 71%
colonial▬
displacement▲ 76%
disputed▬
ethnic cleansing▲ 22%
famine▲ 44%
genocide▲ 71%
hostage▲ 96%
humanitarian▲ 62%
incitement▲ 13%
indigenous▲ 14%
islamist▬
islamophobia▲ 16%
jihad▲ 8%
martyr▬
massacre▲ 10%
militant▲ 32%
nakba▲ 96%
occupation▲ 18%
refugee▬
resistance▲ 22%
self determination▲ 36%
settler▲ 14%
settler colonial▼ 22%
siege▲ 11%
terror▬
war crime▲ 66%

One word, two histories

“Genocide” is two opposite signals wearing one word. Next to the Holocaust, Armenia or Rwanda it is the historical record, and removing it is denial. Next to Gaza and the ICJ case it is an accusation against Israel. Split by the context around each mention: the accusation appeared 6 times across the openings of all 61,944 watched articles on October 6, 2023, after eighteen years online. By 2026 it appears 203 times, more than every historical genocide combined (152). The historical line grew slowly for eighteen years. The accusation line was near zero until October 2023, then multiplied 34-fold.

0.380.280.190.090.002005201020152020Oct 6 '2320252026Oct 7
historical genocides (the record)“genocide” aimed at Israelambiguous context

Counts are per 100 article openings among articles that existed at each date, so a growing encyclopedia cannot fake a trend by itself. The x axis follows real time, and the velocity bars are annualized as 1 − (1 − p)1/years so unequal windows compare honestly. Recompute anything here from /data.

The Wikipedia articles born after October 7

6,397 of the articles we watch did not exist on October 6, 2023. They were created after, and their openings carry the accusation vocabulary at several times the rate of the 54,166 articles that were already there. Grey is the older articles, red is the ones born since. “Genocide” appears in 1.7% of the new openings against 0.3% of the old.

famine0.1% then, 0.4% in the new oneswar crime0.1% then, 0.7% in the new onesgenocide0.3% then, 1.7% in the new onesmassacre0.8% then, 1.6% in the new onesapartheid0.1% then, 0.3% in the new onesantisemitism0.9% then, 1.5% in the new onesoccupation2.1% then, 3.1% in the new onesterror2.2% then, 2.3% in the new ones

Share of openings containing the word at all, not total mentions, so a single long article cannot move the line. New articles cover new events, and some of this is that. The size of the gap is the finding.

Which words outran Wikipedia's own growth

Rates per article are one measure. Volume is another, and it answers a different question: how much of this vocabulary now sits in the encyclopedia at all. Since 2005 the watched set grew 9 times over. Mentions in their openings grew faster: genocide 30 times, apartheid 12, ethnic cleansing 8, war crime 8. A vocabulary outrunning the encyclopedia that carries it is not the encyclopedia getting bigger.

the article set grew 9xgenocide30x, from 18 to 539apartheid12x, from 10 to 123war crime8x, from 20 to 158ethnic cleansing8x, from 8 to 63antisemitism7x, from 174 to 1164occupation6x, from 304 to 1796terror6x, from 368 to 2097colonial5x, from 92 to 433famine3x, from 22 to 63

Total mentions across every saved opening at each date, and the multiple between them. Red bars grew faster than the article set itself; steel bars did not. Both measures are published because they answer different questions, and because a count that only ever runs one way is not a measurement.

Wikipedia changed what the thing is

Every Wikipedia article opens by defining its subject: X is a Y. That sentence is what Google quotes, what AI systems are trained on, and what a reader takes away if they read nothing else. It is also the one sentence that can be replaced without deleting a word from anybody's watch list, which is exactly why nobody was counting it. We reconstructed it from every snapshot we hold, back to 2005. 25,211 Wikipedia articles now define their subject as something other than what Wikipedia said it was, 10,927 of them since October 2023.

A translator Israel assassinated is now a translator. A hijacking is now a scheduled flight from Cairo to San Diego. Counter-terrorism units are now certain units. Nothing was deleted from any article to do it.

Shubaki family assassinationdesignation removed

Wikipedia called it

assassination by the lehi

Wikipedia calls it

summary execution of five adult members of the shubaki family in the village of arab al-shubaki

Coastal road massacredesignation removed

Wikipedia called it

attack involving the hijacking of a bus on israel 's coastal highway in which 38 israeli civilians were killed

Wikipedia calls it

killed as a result of the attack while 76 more were wounded

Khaled Nazzaldesignation removed

Wikipedia called it

central committee secretary of the democratic front for the liberation of palestine and a militant leader for t

Wikipedia calls it

central committee secretary of the democratic front for the liberation of palestine

Fathi Shaqaqidesignation removed

Wikipedia called it

palestinian who founded and led the palestinian islamic jihad organisation and was the initiator of suicide bom

Wikipedia calls it

palestinian physician

Lehi (militant group)designation removed

Wikipedia called it

radical self-described terrorist group that had as its goal the eviction of the british from palestine to allow

Wikipedia calls it

considered an amalgam of both right and left

Raed Al Karmidesignation removed

Wikipedia called it

palestinian terrorist and member of the fatah ’s tanzim

Wikipedia calls it

leading member of fatah ’s

Israeli settlementcontext added

Wikipedia called it

civilian communities where israeli citizens live

Wikipedia calls it

civilian communities built by israel throughout the israeli-occupied territories

Hilltop Youthcontext added

Wikipedia called it

term commonly used for several right-wing dissident youth groups in israel

Wikipedia calls it

extremist settler youth movement of hardal origin operating in the israeli-occupied west bank

The last two run the other way, and they stay on this page for the same reason every number here does: a measurement that only ever finds what we went looking for is worth nothing to anyone.

Wikipedia stopped filing them under what happened

Categories are not prose. They are the index of the encyclopedia: the machine-readable statement of what kind of thing an article is, and what a search for “terrorist incidents in Israel” returns. An article can be taken out of Category:Terrorist incidents without one word of its text changing. The diff is a single line at the bottom of the page that nobody reads, and the article stops existing for every reader who arrives through a list instead of a search.

Wikipedia filed 2,250 of these articles under a category naming what the act was. 199 of them, 8.8%, are filed under nothing of the kind today. It did that while its own category system was growing from 4.5 categories per article to 7.7, so these are losses against a rising tide.

Categories Wikipedia took off the most articles
Categories Wikipedia added to the most articles

Filed under nothing that names what happened

Every one of these was in a category naming the act, and is in none today.

The index deleted its own entries, and kept the paperwork

Whole category names carrying designation words have been deleted or renamed away. Where a Categories-for-Discussion decision exists, it is linked; a category with no log at all was emptied member by member, with no recorded decision anywhere.

  • Terrorist incidents involving vehicular attacks delete delete 2014-11-18
  • Jewish religious terrorism move move 2023-11-24 · the discussion
  • Antisemitic canards move move 2023-10-23 · the discussion
  • Terrorism in the State of Palestine move move 2025-02-04 · the discussion
  • Terrorism in the Palestinian territories delete delete 2025-03-15 · the discussion
  • Massacres of men delete delete 2024-04-20 · the discussion
  • People imprisoned on charges of terrorism move move 2024-09-18 · the discussion
  • Terrorist incidents in the Palestinian territories delete delete 2025-03-15 · the discussion
  • Male murder victims delete delete 2023-11-25 · the discussion
  • Child murder in the State of Palestine move move 2025-04-05 · the discussion
  • Terrorist incidents involving knife attacks no deletion or move log: emptied member by member, no recorded decision
  • Terrorist incidents in Jerusalem no deletion or move log: emptied member by member, no recorded decision
  • Terrorist attacks on airports no deletion or move log: emptied member by member, no recorded decision
  • Palestinian terrorist incidents in Europe no deletion or move log: emptied member by member, no recorded decision
  • Massacres in Israel no deletion or move log: emptied member by member, no recorded decision
  • Murder in Israel no deletion or move log: emptied member by member, no recorded decision
The count of articles that gained a designation category is deliberately not published. In a system that only adds, gaining is the default, and that number would measure Wikipedia's category tree rather than anything anyone did to an article.

Words Wikipedia deleted and never put back

A word that was already removed before you started watching is invisible, so we went back through twenty years of revision history for every article. 3,676 Wikipedia openings used a tracked word at some point since 2005 and no longer use it. Every claim below links the old revision, and we saved that text ourselves. We count both directions: “occupation” and “apartheid” erasures are in the data beside “terror” and “antisemitism”.

Why the opening is the whole number. A Google result quotes it. An AI answer is built from it. A reader checking one fact reads it and closes the tab. A word moved out of the opening and into paragraph forty has not been softened, it has been removed for almost everyone who will ever meet the article, and the edit summary that did it can honestly say the opening was too long. That is why this count is openings, not articles. In 1,384 of these the word is gone from the rest of the article as well, which is a stricter fact and a rarer one, and it is reported separately below rather than treated as the real total.

Ayat al-Akhras case file

“militant” ×9demoted to the body
Peak: 2005, revision 17767769. We saved that text; the word count today, anywhere in the article: 0.
How the article opened then

…or Ayat was racked with grief and emotional pain but that grief soon subsided to expose rage and vengence. Ayat sought revenge by attempting to join one of the militant Palestine groups. Ayat attempted to join Hamas but was turned away by the group because of a long standing policy against allowing females to fight in physical…

Rasmea Odeh

“terror” ×9demoted to the body
Peak: 2015, revision 663489163. We saved that text; the word count today, anywhere in the article: 0.
How the article opened then

…s associate director at the Arab American Action Network in Chicago, Illinois . Odeh was convicted in 1970 by an Israeli military court of involvement in fatal terrorist bombings, and in 2014 by a US federal jury of immigration fraud . She was sentenced to life in prison in Israel for her involvement in two terrorist bombing…

List of terrorist incidents in 2002

“martyr” ×9demoted to the body
Peak: 2010, revision 369258875. We saved that text; the word count today, anywhere in the article: 0.
How the article opened then

…bomber whom he had stopped for questioning on the Ma'ale Adumim – Jerusalem road. The terrorist succeeded in detonating the bomb in his car. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Israel , February 27: A female Palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up at a roadblock on the Jerusalem – Mo…

Anti-Arab racism case file

“antisemitism” ×7demoted to the body
Peak: 2005, revision 15959284. We saved that text; the word count today, anywhere in the article: 0.
How the article opened then

…are other stereotypes regarding clothing, or clichéd notions about Middle Eastern culture. Although neither so established, virulent, nor institutionalized as Anti-Semitism , Anti-Arab sentiment is not uncommon. Some Arabs claim that they currently suffer discrimination in the Western world on a far greater scale than Jews. Thi…

Israeli demolition of Palestinian property case file

“terror” ×7demoted to the body
Peak: 2015, revision 666265785. We saved that text; the word count today, anywhere in the article: 0.
How the article opened then

…include use as a counter-insurgency security measure to impede or halt militant operations House demolitions are also claimed to be a potent deterrent against terrorism , in significantly decreasing Palestinian terrorists attacks. Human rights organizations and the United Nations criticize the ongoing demolitions of Palesti…

List of terrorist incidents in 2002

“jihad” ×7demoted to the body
Peak: 2010, revision 369258875. We saved that text; the word count today, anywhere in the article: 0.
How the article opened then

…on was killed and a large number injured, most lightly, when a suicide bomber exploded in an Egged bus as it entered the Afula central bus station. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Israel , March 7: A suicide bomber blew himself up in the lobby of a hotel in [[Ariel (city) Ariel]]. 15 people were inj…

Riyadh compound bombings case file

“terror” ×7demoted to the body
Peak: 2005, revision 16290763. We saved that text; the word count today, anywhere in the article: 0.
How the article opened then

…in 2003 , and the deadliest attack on Americans that year. File:Riyadhbomb.jpg One of the bombed compounds. Early in May , the US State Department warned that terrorists were in the final stages of planning terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government also warned of this, and issued an alert for 19 men believed t…

Boaz Ganor case file

“terror” ×7demoted to the body
Peak: 2010, revision 354240863. We saved that text; the word count today, anywhere in the article: 0.
How the article opened then

…Government and Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Center . He is also the founder and the Executive Director of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism . He is a member of Israel’s National Committee for Homeland Security Technologies, of the International Advisory Board of Institute of Defense and Strategi…

Sydney anti-Islam film protests

“terror” ×7demoted to the body
Peak: 2023, revision 1146332013. We saved that text; the word count today, anywhere in the article: 0.
How the article opened then

…Lodhi (2006) Abdul Nacer Benbrika (2008) Bilal Khazal (2009) Willie Brigitte (alleged al-Qaeda) Neil Prakash (alleged ISIS) Security agencies Legislation Anti-terrorism legislation (2004) Anti-terrorism legislation (2005) Listed terrorist organisations Thwarted Singapore embassies attack plot (2001) Sydney terrorism plot (2…

Every deletion, by word

The opening paragraph is the only part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote. Every verdict was checked against the full current article text, references included, on 2026-08-02, and the check reruns on a schedule so the “today” column never goes stale.

“occupation”

749 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 193 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 749. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“terror”

643 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 119 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 643. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“refugee”

353 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 78 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 353. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“militant”

274 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 81 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 274. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“antisemitism”

272 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 58 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 272. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“islamist”

244 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 76 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 244. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“jihad”

239 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 68 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 239. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“settler”

232 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 75 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 232. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“resistance”

230 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 64 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 230. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“disputed”

223 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 136 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 223. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“colonial”

216 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 48 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 216. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“massacre”

196 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 58 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 196. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“martyr”

189 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 56 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 189. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“siege”

157 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 28 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 157. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“indigenous”

134 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 66 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 134. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“annexation”

125 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 40 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 125. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“genocide”

86 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 26 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 86. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“displacement”

80 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 35 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 80. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“hostage”

78 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 16 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 78. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“apartheid”

46 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 12 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 46. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“war crime”

44 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 11 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 44. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“famine”

41 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 11 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 41. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“islamophobia”

38 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 13 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 38. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“ethnic cleansing”

30 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 14 it is gone from the rest of the article too

The heaviest 12 of 30. The rest, and every other change, are on the ledger.

“settler colonial”

2 Wikipedia openings lost it; in 2 it is gone from the rest of the article too

This window, counted

The instrument reads all 61,944 articles on a schedule. Window 2026-07-30 → 2026-08-01: 6,165 articles edited, 372 openings changed, 12 moved the tracked vocabulary.

Every one of those edits, with both texts and the words that left, is on the ledger. This page is what they add up to.

What held

64 audited articles were not touched in the window. We publish the unchanged set alongside the changed one.

1948 Palestinian expulsion from Lydda and Ramle2017 Hamas charterAbu JihadAct.ILAhed TamimiBanu QurayzaBar Kokhba revoltBattle of Jenin (2002)Black September OrganizationCasualties of the Israel–Hamas warCitizenship and Entry into Israel LawCoastal Road massacreDalal MughrabiFirst IntifadaFlour massacreGaza flotilla raidGoldstone ReportHadassah medical convoy massacreHolocaust inversionHouthi movementHuman shields in the Israeli–Palestinian conflictIncitement to genocideIslam and antisemitismIslamophobiaIsraeli West Bank barrierJewish religious terrorismJewish supremacyKafr Qasim massacreKhartoum ResolutionLand of IsraelLaw of ReturnLegitimacy of the State of IsraelLeila KhaledMa'alot massacreMasafer YattaMercaz HaRav shootingMiddle East Media Research InstituteMinistry of Health (Gaza)Mohammed El-KurdMuhammad al-Durrah incidentMunich massacreMuslim conquest of the LevantNGO MonitorNakba denialNuseirat rescue and massacreOperation EntebbePalestinian National AuthorityPalestinian fedayeenPallywoodPeople of the BookQuds ForceRoute 4370SamidounSbarro restaurant suicide bombingSecond IntifadaSouth Africa v. Israel (Genocide Convention)State of PalestineSumudThe FarhudUNRWAWell poisoningWorking Definition of AntisemitismZionism, race and geneticsZionist Occupation Government

Go deeper into the Wikipedia record

Three surfaces built on the same saved snapshots.

759Case files: one page per rewritten article, every snapshot since 2005, every removal marked and dated
278The editors: removals pinned to the exact edit, grouped by the account that made it
195Merged, renamed, erased: watched articles that no longer exist under their own name

Method, in five sentences

The universe is Wikipedia's own: every article claimed by WikiProject Israel, Palestine, Judaism or Islam, every article under the arbitration committee's Arab-Israeli enforcement, and every extended-confirmed-protected article inside that set. For every article we store a revision id, a checksum of its opening paragraph and a count of the tracked words; for contested and audited articles we store the full opening text itself, because a link to Wikipedia's history is only evidence while Wikipedia chooses to serve it. Before any change is reported, both sides of it are captured here. Movement is reported in both directions, and the unchanged set is published with the changed one. No AI measures anything on this page; everything is counted, and every count is downloadable at /data.

On the defining sentence, specifically

Two kinds of language move through Wikipedia's definitions in opposite directions and we count them apart, because added together they cancel and report nothing happening. Designation is what an act or an actor gets called: a terror attack, a militant, a massacre, an assassination. Context is what gets attached to a place or a state: occupied, depopulated, expelled, annexed. Since October 2023, 61 Wikipedia definitions lost designation language and 76 gained it; 13 lost context language and 34 gained it. Measured across the defining sentence alone, designation words are close to level and the growth is on the context side. The scrubbing of “terrorist” and “massacre” documented elsewhere on this page happens further into the opening and into the body. Those are two different claims about two different sentences and we do not merge them into one number.

Report JSON: 2026-07-30-audited.json. Article list built 2026-08-17. Twenty-year history saved for 61,872 of the 62,179 watched articles; present-day openings held for 61,856.

Shoresh · ilroot.com · the text quoted above is Wikipedia's, CC BY-SA; the measurements are ours, CC BY 4.0.