HonestReporting: what Wikipedia removed
HonestReporting is an organization that monitors media coverage of Israel. Through 2020 the opening’s own short description called it an “Anti-semitic media monitoring organization” that monitors the media for bias against Israel. Today that description is gone, replaced by “Pro-Israel media monitoring organization,” and the word antisemitism does not appear in the opening though it survives seven times in the body. A reader arriving now learns the group calls itself pro-Israel and not that Wikipedia once described its function in terms of monitoring antisemitism.
The word “antisemitism” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 7. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| antisemitism | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| massacre | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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 changes on this article are at the word level rather than whole passages; the table above shows the counts moving.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 366040081):
File:HonestReporting.JPG HonestReporting (also Honest Reporting or honestreporting.com ) is a watchdog organization that monitors the media for what it considers bias against Israel. The organization has affiliates in the United States, UK, Canada, Italy, and Brazil. ^ HonestReporting says of itself that it is “an organization dedicated to defending Israel against prejudice in the Media, we aim to provide educational tools and resources to anyone wishing to advocate for Israel.” HonestReporting, Our Mission , accessed 18 July 2009
2025 (revision 1297457856):
Pro-Israel media monitoring organization HonestReporting or Honest Reporting is an Israeli media advocacy group. A pro-Israel media watchdog, it describes its mission as “combat[ting] ideological prejudice in journalism and the media, as it impacts Israel”. ^ Balmer, Crispian (November 11, 2023). “HonestReporting accepts news groups had no prior warning of Oct. 7 Hamas attack” . Reuters . Archived from the original on November 13, 2023 . Retrieved May 3, 2024 . ^ Sokol, Sam (November 9, 2023). “News Agencies Dispute Israeli Allegations of Complicity in Hamas Massacre” . Haaretz . Archived from the original on November 9, 2023 . Retrieved May 5, 2024 . ^ “Gil Hoffman” . The Jerusalem Post . 2…
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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