Israel and the United Nations: what Wikipedia removed
The article on Israel’s treatment at the UN. Antisemitism appeared in its opening in 2010 and appears 0 times today, in the article about the body that passed Resolution 3379.
The word “antisemitism” appeared 3 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 2026-08-02.
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 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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
Section titled “What was taken out”- The sentence noting that the UN condemns antisemitism while its own record on Israel runs the other way, removed.
- The opening framing of the relationship was rewritten.
- The UN’s central role in the region, removed from the opening.
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:
- 2012-11-29, Lihaas (see the diff)
- 2018-09-27, Greyshark09, edit summary: “splitting” (see the diff)
- 2014-03-30, Pashute, edit summary: “added section title and moved images to correct location (nothing to do with 1960’s). Also filled in and sourced “by who” (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 16323776):
Israel and the United Nations have had very mixed relations, since the state’s founding on May 14 , 1948 . Much of the controversy has to do with the various permutations of the Arab-Israeli conflict (including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ), although other issues arise from time to time.
2026 (revision 1367208376):
Issues relating to the State of Israel and aspects of the Arab–Israeli conflict , and more recently the Iran–Israel conflict , occupy repeated annual debate times, resolutions and resources at the United Nations. Since its founding in 1948, the United Nations Security Council , has adopted 79 resolutions directly related to the Arab–Israeli conflict as of January 2010. The adoption on 29 November 1947, by the United Nations General Assembly of a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of a plan of partition of Mandatory Palestine was one of the earliest acts of the United Nations. This followed the report of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine . Since then, it h…
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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