Islah Jad: what Wikipedia removed

Islah Jad is a Palestinian academic and co-founder of an NGO whose credit card donation facilities were cut off after being flagged for links to a designated terrorist organization. In 2020 the opening said the NGOs “had links to a designated terrorist organisation, namely the Popular Front for the [Liberation of Palestine].” Today’s opening carries no mention of this; the word terror does not appear anywhere in the article. A reader today learns that Jad co-founded an NGO whose funding was cut, and not that the reason given was its links to a designated terrorist organization.

The word “terror” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 4 moments between 2015 and 2025. Everything below is Wikipedia’s own text, quoted from those saved copies. The interactive version, with every snapshot side by side and each removal marked in place, is at ilroot.com/case/islah-jad.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2015	2020	6 October 2023	2025
terror	0	2	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

• The sentence naming the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine as the designated terrorist organization the NGOs were linked to, dropped from the article.

How it opened then, and now

2015 (revision 608881227):

( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Dr. Islah Jad, Birzeit University Islah Jad (born 1951) is a tenured Assistant Professor of Gender and Development at Birzeit University . She is also the co-founder and current Director of the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit and a Core Group Member of the Arab Families Working Group . A prominent figure in the Palestinian women’s movement , Jad also helped to establish the Women’s Affair Centre in Gaza and Nablus , Les Amies du Francis, the Child Corner project in el-Bireh, and the WATC (Women’s Affairs Technical Committee). Jad carried out Gender Consultancy for the United Nations Development Programme and was a co-author of the United …

2025 (revision 1294152536):

Palestinian academic (gender studies) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Islah Jad (born 1951) is a tenured assistant professor of Gender and Development at Birzeit University . She is also the co-founder and current Director of the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit and a Core Group Member of the Arab Families Working Group . A prominent figure in the Palestinian women’s movement , Jad also helped to establish the Women’s Affair Centre in Gaza and Nablus , Les Amies du Francis, the Child Corner project in el-Bireh, and the WATC (Women’s Affairs Technical Committee). Jad carried out Gender Consultancy for the United Nations Development Programme and was a co-author of the Uni…

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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