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Al-Haq is the Ramallah-based Palestinian human rights organization active since 1979. In 2020 the opening reported that Visa, Mastercard and American Express had withdrawn donation facilities from Al-Haq and three other NGOs in 2018 after being alerted the groups had ‘links to a designated terrorist organisation.’ Today the opening describes Al-Haq only as a group that ‘monitors and documents human rights violations’ and lists its institutional affiliations, with no mention of the terrorist-designation controversy, though terror survives 15 times elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns which international bodies Al-Haq is affiliated with, not that major credit card companies cut its donation processing over alleged links to a designated terrorist organization.

The word “terror” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 15. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • The 2020 description of Al-Haq as an independent Palestinian human-rights organization is gone from the opening, replaced with a longer institutional description.
  • The sentence reporting that Al-Haq and three other NGOs had links to a designated terrorist organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is gone from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 342521234):

Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian human rights organization founded in 1979 and based in Ramallah in the West Bank . It monitors and documents human rights violations by all parties to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict , issuing reports on its findings and producing detailed legal studies. Al-Haq has been an affiliate of the Geneva -based International Commission of Jurists for over 20 years, and is a member of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Habitat International Coalition , and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT). It also is part of the Executive Committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and of the Steering Committee of the Palestini…

2025 (revision 1289249205):

See also: Al-Haqq Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq ( Arabic : الحق , romanized : al-Ḥaqq ; transl. “the Truth” or “the Right”) is a Palestinian non-governmental human rights organization based in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank . Founded in 1979, Al-Haq monitors and documents human rights violations committed by parties to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict , issuing reports on its findings and producing detailed legal studies. It is in special consultative status with ECOSOC since 2000. Al-Haq has been affiliated with the Geneva -based International Commission of Jurists and is a member of the International Federation for Human Rights , Habitat International Coalition and th…

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