Baruch Goldstein: what Wikipedia removed
The 2020 opening said Goldstein “perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre”. Today’s opening does not contain the word at all; the body uses it 18 times. Live-checked August 2026.
The word “massacre” appeared 4 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 18. 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 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| massacre | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| terror | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
| militant | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| martyr | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| occupation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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
Section titled “What was taken out”- Massacre left the opening of a mass murderer’s article. The scrubbing runs in every direction, including this one, and we publish it in every direction.
- How he died was rewritten; the survivors’ act lost its context.
- Israel’s own terrorist designation of Kach, removed.
- The account of his shrine being dismantled, 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:
- 2023-01-03, Nableezy, edit summary: “sock of banned user” (see the diff)
- 2024-08-24, Makeandtoss, edit summary: “rewriting lede to shift focus on Goldstein rather than his massacre by summarizing body” (see the diff)
- 2025-08-29, HAL333, edit summary: “fluffy” (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 17908303):
File:Dr Baruch Goldstein Israel.jpg Dr. Baruch Goldstein in medical clothes. Hebrew sign says rofe (“[Medical] Doctor”) Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein ( December 9 or December 12 , 1956 – February 25 , 1994 ) was a Kahanist born in Brooklyn, New York and was responsible for killing 29 Muslim civilians and injuring approximately 100 in a 1994 mass shooting attack. After emigrating to Israel , Goldstein had served as a physician in the Israeli Defense Force , first as a conscript, then in the reserve forces. Here, he gained notoriety for refusing to treat non-Jews, even those serving in the IDF . When Goldstein was threatened with court-martial he declared: I am not willing to treat any non-Jew. …
2026 (revision 1365608411):
American-Israeli mass murderer (1956–1994) Baruch Kopel Goldstein ( Hebrew : ברוך קאפל גולדשטיין ; born Benjamin Carl Goldstein ; December 9, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was an American-Israeli physician and religious extremist who, in 1994, murdered 29 Palestinians in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank , an incident of Jewish terrorism . Goldstein was a supporter of Kach , a religious Zionist party that the United States , the European Union and other countries designate as a terrorist organization. Kach was banned less than a month after Goldstein’s attacks on account of statements made in support of his actions. Born in 1956 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City , to an Orthodox Je…
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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