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Ishmael Khaldi: what Wikipedia removed

Israel’s first Bedouin deputy consul. The 2010 article carried his answer to Israel Apartheid Week, that Israel’s minorities “fare far better than any other country in the Middle East”. His rebuttal, and the word apartheid with it, is gone from the entire article.

The word “apartheid” appeared 4 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 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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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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  • Israel’s first Bedouin deputy consul answering Israel Apartheid Week directly. Removed whole.

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:

  • 2011-07-08, SidP, edit summary: “added reference, age, quote on tradition, external link section, reference formatting (mostly for consistency), sectioni” (see the diff)

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 369508024):

Ismail Khaldi is the first Bedouin deputy consul of the State of Israel and the nation’s first high ranking Muslim in the Israeli foreign service. In June 2006, he was appointed to serve in San Francisco . In August 2009 Khaldi was appointed advisor to the minister of foreign affairs Avigdor Lieberman. Ishmael Khaldi lived in a Bedouin tent until he was 8 years old, walked 4 miles round trip to school each day and tended flocks of sheep. Hesaid his family’s ties with its Jewish neighbors go back to the days of the early Zionist pioneers from Eastern Europe who settled in the Galilee region in the 1920s. Khaldi says there is still a long way to go before the Bedouin minority achieves full equ…

2026 (revision 1365721218):

Israeli diplomat (born 1971) Ismail Khaldi ( Arabic : إسماعيل خالدي , Hebrew : איסמעיל חאלדי ; born 1971) is the first Bedouin diplomat in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs . ^ “Israel’s Leaders: Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Action” , World Security Network, 29 April 2009. ^ Hazan, Jenny. “Ishmael Khaldi tells Aish.com what it’s really like being a minority in Israel” , Aish.com , 31 July 2010.

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