Al-Quds Al-Arabi: what Wikipedia removed
Al-Quds Al-Arabi is an independent pan-Arab daily newspaper published in London since 1989. Through 2010 the opening said it was the first, or among the first, to publish a number of communiqués threatening, and taking responsibility for, Islamist and terrorist violence. Today the opening carries none of this, though the word survives 4 times in the body. A reader arriving now learns about its ownership, editors and circulation, and not that it was a channel for terrorist groups’ claims of responsibility.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 4. 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 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| islamist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| occupation | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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”- The translation of the newspaper’s name was reworded with minor phrasing changes.
- The sentence describing the newspaper as first to publish communiqués claiming responsibility for Islamist and terrorist violence is gone from the opening, though the word terror survives 4 times in the body.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 365329171):
Al-Quds Al-Arabi ( Template:Lang-ar ), ( English : “Arab Jerusalem ”) is an independent pan-Arab daily newspaper published in London since 1989. The paper is owned by Palestinian expatriates , and edited by Abd al-Bari Atwan who was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza Strip in 1950. Due to its strong criticism of the Arab regimes and their perceived obedience to the U.S. & Israel , the paper has been censored and sometimes temporarily banned in Egypt , Jordan , Saudi Arabia , and Syria . It has a circulation of around 50,000. This newspaper was the first, or among the first , to publish a number of communiqués threatening, and taking responsibility for, Islamist and terrorist violence…
2025 (revision 1297919436):
Arabic language newspaper published in the U.K. Al-Quds Al-Arabi ( Arabic : القدس العربي , romanized : al-Quds al-ʿArabī , lit. ’ The Arab Jerusalem ’ ) is an independent pan-Arab daily newspaper, published in London since 1989 and owned by Palestinian expatriates . According to news reports in 2013, it is now owned by Qatar media interests, through intermediaries. The paper’s motto is yawmiyyah siyāsiyyah mustaqillah ( يومية سياسية مستقلة ), “daily, political, independent”. Its circulation is estimated to be somewhere between 15,000 and 50,000. From the start until his resignation in July 2013, its editor-in-chief was Abdel Bari Atwan , who was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza…
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