A heritage site is only as good as its honesty. This page lays out how texts are graded, the rules the writing holds itself to, every source the project is built on, and a citation for every major claim, linked to the page it appears on and out to the original record. Check the work.
Shoresh is proudly pro-Israel, and it is built to be checkable. Every scripture is quoted from a named edition, every hard text is graded, and the same standard is applied to both faiths. Where a claim is contested, it is flagged as contested. The receipts are below.
Why a verse gets a label, and why the labels mean different things for each tradition.
A fair comparison has to measure the right thing. Hadith, the recorded sayings and deeds of Muhammad, vary wildly in reliability, so Islamic texts are graded for authenticity: did Muhammad really say it? Jewish biblical law is canonical and undisputed as text, so its hard verses are graded for practice: is this still done? That single difference, what a tradition does with its hard texts, is the real story the Quran, Torah and Compare pages tell.
Five commitments, applied on every page.
Texts, datasets and primary documents the site is built on.
The open Sefaria library (JPS and other editions) for Tanakh and rabbinic texts, via its public API.
The Hebrew Bible has been transmitted almost unchanged for two thousand years, as the Dead Sea Scrolls attest. The Unbroken Text →
Arabic and the Sahih International translation via alquran.cloud.
Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, drawn from an open hadith dataset and verified by text, then graded against classical scholarship.
Balfour, the Mandate, UN 181, Resolution 242, the 1949 armistice agreements, the charters and the peace treaties are held here in full, transcribed from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School and served complete with a checksum, a digital fingerprint that proves the text has not changed. All 28 texts →
We keep our own copy of the readable text of every outside page cited on this site, with the date it was retrieved and a checksum. A source that gets moved, paywalled or deleted stops being a link and does not stop being evidence. The archive, as data →
Modern coastline and borders from public-domain Natural Earth survey data. Ancient-era territories are illustrative, based on historical scholarship.
Aggregated from pro-Israel and Israeli outlets (Jerusalem Post, Algemeiner, Israel National News and others). Each item links back to its original publisher.
The IHRA working definition of antisemitism; the Genocide Convention; Additional Protocol I, the 1977 treaty adding civilian-protection rules to the Geneva Conventions.
Terms defined for this site and cross-checked against standard references. Read the glossary →
The key facts across the site, each tied to the page it appears on and to an authoritative source you can check yourself.
Links marked ↗ open the original source, a UN document, a government report, a recognised monitor or archive. On the site → jumps to where the claim is used. Where a number is contested or comes from a party to the conflict, the site says so on the page; this index points you to the record either way.