Antisemitism in Europe: what Wikipedia removed
The article about antisemitism itself. The word appeared 16 times in this opening in 2005 and appears 3 times today. The 2005 opening defined it as “a fear and hatred of the Jewish people”; today it is “the prejudice or discrimination against Jews”.
The word “antisemitism” appeared 16 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| antisemitism | 16 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| genocide | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| occupation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 definition itself was replaced: fear and hatred of the Jewish people became prejudice or discrimination.
- The account of modern non-religious antisemitism in Europe, removed.
Who made the cuts
Section titled “Who made the cuts”Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:
- 2024-10-16, Steven1991, edit summary: “Introduction’s rephrasing” (see the diff)
- 2013-04-19, ScottyNolan (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 371217566):
Antisemitism , or a fear and hatred of the Jewish people , has experienced a long history of expression since the days of ancient civilizations, with most of it having originated in the Christian and pre-Christian civilizations of Europe. While having been cited as having been expressed in the intellectual and political centers of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire , the phenomenon received an upsurge of institutionalization within European Christianity following the dissolution of the ancient Jewish center of power in Jerusalem, resulting in the restriction and forced segregation of immigrant and native Jewish populations residing in various parts of the continent from participation in the…
2026 (revision 1365711856):
( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Antisemitism , prejudice or discrimination against Jews , has existed since the ancient times . While antisemitism had already been prevalent in ancient Greece and the Roman Empire , its institutionalization in European Christianity after the destruction of the ancient Jewish cultural center in Jerusalem led to centuries of intermittent segregations , expulsions and pogroms , culminating in the 20th-century genocide known as the Holocaust in Nazi German-occupied European states , where approximately 67% of all European Jews and all third of all Jews on Earth were murdered. ^ Levy, Richard, ed. (2005). Antisemitism: a historical encyclopedia of pr…
Related
Section titled “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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