Baruch Marzel: what Wikipedia removed
Baruch Marzel, an Israeli far-right political activist and former spokesman for Meir Kahane’s Kach organization. The 2005 opening said both groups were designated terrorist and outlawed in 1994 following the mass killing of 29 Palestinians in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron by Baruch Goldstein. The word appears nowhere in the article today. A reader today does not learn that Kach and Kahane Chai were designated terrorist organizations and outlawed in 1994.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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
Section titled “What was taken out”- The sentence stating that Kach and Kahane Chai were designated terrorist organizations and outlawed in 1994 following Baruch Goldstein’s mass killing of 29 Palestinians is gone from the opening; a reader no longer learns of that designation.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 16516169):
Baruch Marzel is a right-wing Israeli settler from Hebron . He was a member of Meir Kahane ‘s Kach , which was disqualified for racism by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1988. Following Kahane’s assassination in 1990, he moved to lead Kach , one of the the splinter groups from the original Kach (the other splinter group, Kahane Chai , was led by Kahane’s son Binyamin Ze’ev Kahane ). Both groups were designated terrorist and outlawed in 1994 following the mass killings of 29 Palestinians in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron by Baruch Goldstein on Purim . In 2003 Marzel joined Herut as Michael Kleiner ‘s second and tried to run for a Knesset seat. The election ads featured him prominently with…
2025 (revision 1289123881):
Israeli religious and political extremist (born 1959) Baruch Meir Marzel ( Hebrew : ברוך מאיר מרזל ; born 23 April 1959) is an Israeli politician and activist. He is an Orthodox Jew originally from Boston who now lives in the Jewish community of Hebron in Tel Rumeida with his wife and nine children. He was the leader of the far-right-oriented Jewish National Front party. He is now a member of Otzma Yehudit . He was the “right-hand man” of assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane , acting as spokesman for the American-born rabbi’s Kach organization for ten years. The mainstream Israeli press has described him as an “extreme right-wing activist”. ^ Weiss, Efrat (9 November 2006). “Kahane supporters prai…
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