Islamic Association of Palestine: what Wikipedia removed
The Hamas-linked American organization that dissolved after the Holy Land Foundation case. The 2005 opening recorded the ADL’s accusation of “issuing anti-Semitic propaganda”; antisemitism now appears 0 times in the article.
The word “antisemitism” appeared 3 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. 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
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| antisemitism | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| terror | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| islamist | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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 ADL’s findings survive in weakened form; the specifics went with the rewrite.
- The US government’s own finding, that the organization was a Hamas front, removed.
- Even the group’s own semantic defense was cut, which leaves the reader with no dispute at all.
- The opening definition was replaced entirely.
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:
- 2008-12-01, Carolmooredc, edit summary: “update with refs; deleted pov language; dead link; accurate reflection of one source with relevant info-3 others did not” (see the diff)
- 2006-10-17, SEWilco, edit summary: “del semitic word game; IAP did not state that, link was to editorial http://www.mediamonitors.net/gregfelton2.html” (see the diff)
- 2011-02-17, 7, edit summary: “[[Help:Reverting|Reverted]] edits by [[Special:Contributions/I.irene1948|I.irene1948]] ([[User talk:I.irene1948|talk]]) ” (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 16069906):
Islamic Association of Palestine ( IAP ) is an religious based organization that purports to write articles of a factual nature on issues that “Zionist controlled” westernized media fails to report. It calls itself a “a not-for-profit, public-awareness, educational, political, social, and civic, national grassroots organization dedicated to advancing a just, comprehensive, and eternal solution to the cause of Palestine and suffrages of the Palestinians.” It has been accused of issuing anti-Semitic propaganda and having links to terrorists by the ADL . The organizations claims that it is, by definition, not anti-Semitic. According to the IAP, “Semitic” is a linguistic term denoting a family o…
2026 (revision 1362517813):
American nonprofit organization (1981–2004) Islamic Association of Palestine ( IAP ), and alternately as the American Muslim Society (AMS) and American Middle Eastern League for Palestine (AMEL) , was an American not-for profit organization. Established in 1981, the IAP described itself as “a not-for-profit, public-awareness, educational, political, social, and civic, national grassroots organization dedicated to advancing a just, comprehensive, and eternal solution to the cause of Palestine and suffrages of the Palestinians .” IAP founders included later Hamas politburo leader Mousa Abu Marzook . The Islamic Association of Palestine had strong ties to the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and…
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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