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Boaz Ganor: what Wikipedia removed

One of the world’s best-known scholars of terrorism. His opening once named him founder of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism. Terror ran at 7 mentions and is 0 today: the man who studies terrorism is introduced as an Israeli political scientist.

The word “terror” appeared 7 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02.

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

  • His founding of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, removed from the opening of a terrorism scholar’s biography.
  • His academic post was updated and the counter-terrorism institute went with the rewrite.

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

2010 (revision 354240863):

Dr. Boaz Ganor is the deputy dean of the Lauder School of Government and Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Center . He is also the founder and the Executive Director of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism . He is a member of Israel’s National Committee for Homeland Security Technologies, of the International Advisory Board of Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies (IDSS) in Singapore, and of the International Advisory team of the Manhattan Institute (CTCT) to the New-York Police Department (NYPD). Dr. Ganor lectures on terrorism and counter-terrorism at the High Command Academic Courses of the Israel Defense Forces , as well as at the Lauder School of Government and…

2026 (revision 1339204462):

Israeli political scientist Boaz Ganor ( Hebrew : בועז גנור ) is the former dean of the Lauder School of Government and Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Center and the current President of Reichman University .

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