Israeli Apartheid Week: what Wikipedia removed
Israeli Apartheid Week is an annual series of pro-BDS university lectures and rallies now held in dozens of cities worldwide. Through 2020 the opening reported that the event “has been criticized by some political figures as anti-Israeli and by some others as anti-Semitic.” Today that criticism is gone from the opening, replaced by the organizers’ own description of IAW’s aims, though antisemitic survives eight times in the body. A reader arriving now learns how the organizers describe their own goals and not that the event has drawn accusations of antisemitism.
The word “occupation” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 2. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| occupation | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| antisemitism | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| apartheid | 7 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 |
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”- A poster caption crediting artist Carlos Latuff was reworded, a minor caption change.
- This is the sentence noting the event has been criticized as anti-Israeli and as antisemitic, the passage this finding is built on.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 369841070):
Poster for the 2009 Israeli Apartheid Week, artwork by Latuff Israeli Apartheid Week is an annual series of university lectures and rallies held in February or March. According to the organisation, “[t]he aim of IAW is to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement”. It began in Toronto in 2005 and, by 2009, spread to 40 cities around the world including locations in Canada , England , the United States , South Africa , the West Bank , Mexico , Scotland and Norway . ^ “About Israeli Apartheid Week” . Retrieved 2010-03-03 . ^ Campuses awash in tension over Israel apart…
2025 (revision 1289564553):
Annual series of university activities Poster for the 2009 Israeli Apartheid Week, artwork by Carlos Latuff Israeli Apartheid Week ( IAW ) is an annual series of university lectures and rallies held in February or March. According to the organization, “the aim of IAW is to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement.” Since IAW began in Toronto in 2005, it has spread to at least 55 cities, including locations in Australia, Austria, Brazil , Botswana , Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Jordan , South Korea , Malaysia , Mexico, Norway, Palestine , South Afric…
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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