1517 Hebron attacks: what Wikipedia removed
The 1517 Hebron attacks targeted the city’s Jewish population during the Ottoman-Mamluk war. Through October 2023 the opening said the massacre targeted the Jewish population of the city and is also referred as pogrom. Today the opening calls it only the attacks, though massacre survives six times in the body. A reader today learns Hebron’s Jews were attacked, not that the event was named a massacre or a pogrom.
The word “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 6. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| massacre | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- A date correction to the Ottoman-Mamluk War’s span, from 1513-17 to 1516-17, unrelated to the event’s naming.
- The sentence naming the event a massacre and a pogrom against Hebron’s Jewish population, dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2015 (revision 606392770):
1517 Hebron attacks occurred in the final phases of the 1513-17 Ottoman–Mamluk War , when Turkish Ottomans had ousted the Mamluks and taken Palestine . The massacre targeted the Jewish population of the city and is also referred as pogrom. ^ Spencer C. Tucker , ed. (2008). “Hebron” . The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict . Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p. 436 . Retrieved May 21, 2012 .
2025 (revision 1281080253):
Pogrom in the Ottoman–Mamluk War 1517 Hebron attacks occurred in the final phases of the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17) , when Turkish Ottomans had ousted the Mamluks and taken Ottoman Syria. The attacks targeted the Jewish population of the city.
Related
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- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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