Antisemitism in Spain: what Wikipedia removed
Antisemitism in Spain covers documented medieval massacres of Jewish communities, including Granada in 1066 and across Spain in 1391. In 2020 the opening described Jews under Islamic rule in Al-Andalus facing ‘occasional violent outbursts such as the 1066 Granada massacre,’ and that ‘the situation peaked with the massacres of 1391, in which entire communities were murdered and many were forcibly converted.’ Today the opening is a single sentence, that antisemitism in Spain ‘is the expression through words or actions of an ideology of hatred towards Jews on Spanish soil,’ with both the Granada massacre and the 1391 massacres gone, though massacre survives twice elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns only an abstract definition, not that documented massacres of Jewish communities occurred in Granada in 1066 and across Spain in 1391.
The word “massacre” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 2. 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| antisemitism | 7 | 17 | 16 | 1 |
| occupation | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| disputed | 0 | 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”- The sentence tracing the roots of Spanish antisemitism to Christian sources is gone from the opening, replaced with a one-sentence definition.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2015 (revision 669157088):
Jews in Islamic-occupied Spain, Al-Andalus , were second-class dhimmis who were targeted in pogroms such as the 1066 Granada massacre . In 1492, via the Alhambra Decree , King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella ordered the expulsion of an estimated 80,000 Jews from the country, and thus put an end to the largest and most distinguished Jewish community in Europe. The coercive baptisms eventually produced the phenomenon of the conversos ( Marranos ), the Inquisition , and statutes of “blood purity” five centuries before the race laws in Nazi Germany . From the end of the nineteenth century, Jews have been perceived as conspirators, alongside the notion of a universal Jewish conspiracy to control the…
2025 (revision 1271802858):
Antisemitism in Spain is the expression through words or actions of an ideology of hatred towards Jews on Spanish soil.
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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