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Wikipedia bias: ㉒ The organizations: what the group was called

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

One of the world’s best-known scholars of terrorism. His opening once named him founder of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism. Terror ran at 7 mentions and is 0 today: the man who studies terrorism is introduced as an Israeli political scientist.

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The 2010 opening called it plainly “an Islamist organisation based in London”. Today it is “an Islamic organisation”, and Islamist appears 0 times. One letter of difference, and the entire claim about the group changes.

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The 2005 opening recorded criticism of the group’s views on the link between Zionism and antisemitism. The word appeared 4 times and appears 0 times today.

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The group’s own founding declaration, quoted in the opening, rejected “any form of racism, including anti-Semitism, anti-Arab racism or Islamophobia”. Antisemitism held at 3 mentions through 2020 and is 0 today.

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The 2008 mosque bombing in Iran. The opening once recorded that Iranian officials “first stated that the blast was not a terrorist attack”, a claim the article later examined. Terror ran at 5 mentions and is 0 today.

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The 2015 opening quoted its then-Grand Mufti standing in Gaza beside Ismail Haniyeh saying “I am pleased to stand on the land of jihad”. Terror ran at 3 mentions and is 0 today.

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The first female Palestinian suicide bomber. Her opening once carried the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claim of responsibility. Martyr and jihad each ran at 3 mentions and both are 0 today.

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The article on Israel’s treatment at the UN. Antisemitism appeared in its opening in 2010 and appears 0 times today, in the article about the body that passed Resolution 3379.

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The organization that launched a 600-page Fatwa on Terrorism in London in 2010, which its own opening described. Terror ran at 8 mentions; the article has since been merged away entirely, and our saved copy is the surviving record.

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Palestine Liberation Organization and Hamas

Section titled “Palestine Liberation Organization and Hamas”

The 2005 opening stated that “Hamas is officially characterized as a terrorist group by Israel, the United States and the European Union”. Terror ran at 7 mentions. The article is now a redirect to the Fatah-Hamas conflict, and that sentence exists in our copy.

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