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Wikipedia bias: Same role, opposite words

A documented pattern from the Wikipedia audit (checked 2026-06).

Hamas’s founder Ahmed Yassin opens as a “politician and imam … spiritual leader” (terrorism attributed, in a later section). Meir Kahane opens as an “ultra-nationalist … convicted of multiple acts of terrorism” in the first paragraph.

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When Jews kill, “Zionist paramilitaries attacked”; when Jews are killed, they “were massacred” (passive, perpetrator deferred).

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The parallel articles open opposite: “Zionists committed a number of acts of political violence” (flat, active) vs Palestinian violence pre-justified as “insurgency” by a stateless people seeking “self-determination.”

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Jewish extremism is named without flinching, Kahanism is “Jewish supremacy,” “fascism,” “terrorist,” “racist,” plainly and throughout. The Islamist mirror gets euphemism: Hamas a “nationalist political organisation,” suicide bombing “martyrdom” (Istishhad), Iran’s proxies the “Axis of Resistance.”

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Ariel Sharon’s lead foregrounds “personal responsibility for … Sabra and Shatila” and the “Butcher of Beirut” epithet. Arafat opens as a “political leader”; Abbas’s Holocaust denial is a buried parenthetical. The Israeli’s stain leads; the Palestinians’ trails.

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Irgun “committed acts of terrorism” (UN/British/US designation cited); the King David Hotel bombing is “a terrorist attack” in sentence one. The word is applied without hesitation to Jewish fighters, yet Hamas is a “nationalist political organisation” and Oct 7 “armed incursions.”

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Titled “Gaza border protests”; the lead opens with “Israel killed 223 Palestinians,” reducing the fence-breach attempts and Hamas’s role to a footnote to peaceful protest.

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