Al-Manar: what Wikipedia removed

Al-Manar is Hezbollah’s Lebanese satellite television station. The 2010 opening stated plainly: Al-Manar was designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity, and banned by the United States in December 2004. Today’s opening carries no mention of that designation, though terror survives 30 times elsewhere in the article. A reader arriving at the opening today does not learn that the United States government designated Al-Manar a terrorist entity.

The word “terror” appeared 3 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 30. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 6 moments between 2005 and 2025. Everything below is Wikipedia’s own text, quoted from those saved copies. The interactive version, with every snapshot side by side and each removal marked in place, is at ilroot.com/case/al-manar.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2005	2010	2015	2020	6 October 2023	2025
terror	1	3	1	1	2	0
islamist	0	0	0	0	0	1
jihad	0	0	2	2	2	2
resistance	0	1	2	2	2	2

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

What was taken out

• The original one-line description identifying Al-Manar as a Lebanese satellite television station, reworded as the opening was restructured around an infobox.
• The statement that the United States designated Al-Manar a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity, dropped from the opening.
• A duplicate statement of the US terrorist designation, dropped from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

2005 (revision 17017796):

File:Al manar logo.gif Al-Manar logo Al Manar is the TV station of the controversial Lebanese organization Hezbollah (sometimes spelled Hizbullah). Both Hezbollah and Al-Manar are listed as terrorist organization by the United States State Department .

2025 (revision 1294051453):

Lebanese television station affiliated with Hezbollah For the former Egyptian Islamic magazine, see Al-Manar (magazine) . “Al Manar” redirects here. For other uses, see Manar . Organizations Hezbollah social services Hezbollah in Latin America Finance Bayt al-Mal Yousser Company Al-Qard Al-Hasan Association IRSO Media Al-Manar Al-Nour Al-Ahed Lebanese Communication Group Miscellaneous Jihad al-Bina People Secretaries-General Subhi al-Tufayli Abbas al-Musawi X Hassan Nasrallah X Naim Qassem Senior officials Imad Mughniyeh X Mustafa Badreddine X Hashem Safieddine X Fuad Shukr X Ibrahim Aqil X Ali Karaki X Talal Hamiyah Wafiq Safa Ibrahim Amin al-Sayyed Khalil Yusif Harb Muhammad Haydar Ali Dam…

Related

• The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
• 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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