Black Hand (Mandatory Palestine): what Wikipedia removed
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam’s organization, whose name is on Hamas’s rockets. The 2015 opening described its founding split, one faction arguing “for immediate terror attacks”. Today: 0 in the opening, 3 in the body.
The word “terror” appeared 4 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. 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 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| militant | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| jihad | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| massacre | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| resistance | 0 | 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”- Al-Qassam, whose name Hamas puts on its rockets, proclaimed jihad and attacked Jewish villagers. Removed.
- The organization’s own description was rewritten around its designation.
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:
- 2023-10-26, Omnipaedista, edit summary: “resectioning per WP:LEAD” (see the diff)
- 2023-10-26, Omnipaedista, edit summary: “resectioning per WP:LEAD” (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 350844528):
For other uses, see Black Hand (disambiguation) . The Black Hand ( Template:Lang-ar ) was an armed organization in the British Mandate of Palestine . It was founded in 1930 and led by Syrian -born Shaykh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam until his death in 1935. After the failure of the 1921 Syrian revolt that he led, al-Qassam escaped to Haifa and engaged in recruitment and training of Arab peasants. The clandestine cells had no more than five people. This organization became known as the Black Hand. In all, he had enlisted between 200 and 800 men. In various acts of violence they targeted Jewish targets in northern Palestine between 1930 and 1935 and killed at least eight Jews. In one instance three me…
2026 (revision 1360672339):
Anti-Zionist and anti-British militant group The Black Hand ( Arabic : الكف الاسود , romanized : al-Kaff al-Aswad ) was an anti-Zionist and anti-British Jihadist militant organization in Mandatory Palestine .
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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