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Orient House (Arabic: بيت الشرق bayt ʾal-šarq, Hebrew: האוריינט האוס) is a building located in Jerusalem that served as the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the 1980s and 1990s. Built in 1897 by Ismail Musa Al-Husseini, it has been owned by the Al-Husseini family since. Originally intended to serve as a family residence, it was at times vacated to host important guests, such as Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in 1898 and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in 1936.
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Orient House was the building in Jerusalem that served as PLO headquarters through the 1980s and 1990s. Through the 2005 snapshot the opening said documents found inside showed evidence of 'tight connections and support between the political leadership of the PLO and its Fatah militant wing, widely considered a terrorist organization.' Today the word terror appears nowhere in the article, and the opening instead describes the building's 1897 origins and 19th-century royal visitors. A reader arriving now learns the building's architectural history, and not that Wikipedia's own opening once described evidence tying the PLO's leadership to a wing widely considered a terrorist organization.
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