BADIL: what Wikipedia removed

The 2020 opening recorded NGO Monitor’s finding that the organization “has also published antisemitic cartoons”. Antisemitism now appears 0 times anywhere in the article.

The word “antisemitism” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 4 moments between 2020 and 2026. 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/badil.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2020	6 October 2023	2025	2026
antisemitism	2	2	0	0

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

What was taken out

• NGO Monitor’s finding about the organization’s antisemitic cartoons, removed.

Who made the cuts

Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:

• 2024-03-12, LegalSmeagolian, edit summary: “removed claim from unreliable source” (see the diff)
• 2024-03-05, Ottawajin, edit summary: “Added wikilinks and italicization” (see the diff)

How it opened then, and now

2020 (revision 956552620):

For other uses, see Badil (disambiguation) . Non-profit organization focusing on Palestinian refugee issues BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights is an independent, human rights non-profit organization committed to protect and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons. BADIL was established in January 1998. According to pro-Israel group NGO Monitor , BADIL is engaging in “lawfare” against Israeli military officials and has also published antisemitic cartoons. BADIL has special consultative status with UN ECOSOC and is also part of a large number of Palestinian organisation networks. BADIL publishes al-Majdal, an English language …

2026 (revision 1365652231):

Non-profit organization focusing on Palestinian refugee issues For other uses, see Badil (disambiguation) . BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights is an independent, human rights non-profit organization committed to protect and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons . BADIL was established in January 1998. BADIL has special consultative status with UN ECOSOC and is also part of a large number of Palestinian organisation networks. BADIL’s efforts were inspired by the work Professors Susan Akram , Guy Goodwin-Gill and John Quigley , as well as the work of Salman Abu-Sitta . It “pursued a solid campaign for publicizing refugee rig…

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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