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Hamas: what Wikipedia removed

The world’s most-read description of Hamas. In 2005 the opening said plainly that Hamas “is listed as a terrorist group by the European Union, Canada, the United States, and Israel”. Today’s opening leads with the translation of its name, Islamic Resistance Movement, and “militant” is gone from the opening entirely. “Resistance” has risen from 1 to 6.

The word “militant” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 0. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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word20052010201520206 October 202320252026
militant1122200
terror271571022
islamist1270044
jihad0044011
antisemitism0321022
martyr0001000

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

What was taken out

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  • The designation sentence itself: listed as a terrorist organization by the European Union, Canada, the United States and Israel. Gone from the opening of the most-read article on Hamas.
  • Yassin’s own statement of the goal, and the Charter that affirmed it, removed.
  • The account of civilian buildings used to store weapons and shield fighters, removed.
  • The leadership’s own religious argument was reworded.
  • The tunnel attack account, removed.
  • The Hamas takeover of Gaza from Fatah, removed from the opening.
  • The opening line was rewritten; today it leads with the movement’s own name for itself.
  • A cited report on the Islamist charity blacklist, dropped with the passage it supported.
  • The Crisis Group report on Islamism, dropped with the passage it supported.
  • The cited report that the EU kept Hamas on its terror list despite a court ruling, removed.
  • The account of the 2007 Hamas takeover of Gaza, dropped with its citation.

Who made the cuts

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

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 17831504):

“Hamas” is also the former name of the Movement of Society for Peace , a political party in Algeria . File:HamasLogo.jpg The Hamas emblem shows two crossed swords, the Dome of the Rock , and a map of the land they claim as Palestine (roughly, present-day Israel , the West Bank and the Gaza Strip ). Hamas , acronym of Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah ( Arabic : Islamic Resistance Movement , Hamas is also Arabic for ‘zeal’ or ‘courage’) is a Palestinian Islamist militant organization closely related to the Muslim Brotherhood . Their stated goal is to conquer all of the State of Israel , the West Bank and Gaza , including any secular Palestinian state that may come into formal existence, and …

2026 (revision 1366972139):

Islamist Palestinian political and paramilitary organization For other uses, see Hamas (disambiguation) . Not to be confused with Hamaas . “Islamic Resistance Movement” redirects here. For other uses, see Islamic Resistance (disambiguation) . “Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya” redirects here. Not to be confused with Abu Sayyaf (Al Hamas Harakat Al Muqawamah Al Islamiyyah). The Islamic Resistance Movement , abbreviated Hamas (an acronym from the Arabic : حركة المقاومة الإسلامية , romanized : Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah ), is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organisation with a military wing known as the al-Qassam Brigades . It has governed the Israeli-occupied Gaza St…

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