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.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 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”- 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.
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:
- 2022-01-11, Gilabrand, edit summary: “ce” (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”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 .
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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