Khader Adnan: what Wikipedia removed
Khader Adnan was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesman who died in 2023 after an 87-day hunger strike; the Palestinian Islamic Jihad is designated a terrorist organization by a number of Western governments and by Israel. Through 2015 the opening stated, “The PIJ is designated a terrorist group by a number of Western countries and Israel, and Adnan has been convicted in the past by Israel for being a spokesperson for the group.” Today’s opening calls the PIJ only “a group that militantly opposes Israel,” with terror surviving once elsewhere in the article, not the opening. A reader arriving now does not learn that a number of Western governments and Israel formally designate the Palestinian Islamic Jihad a terrorist organization.
The word “terror” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. 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 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| militant | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| islamist | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| jihad | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| occupation | 1 | 2 | 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 description of him as a senior member of the Palestinian Islamist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad, dropped from the opening.
- A passage on the February 2012 deal ending his hunger strike, dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2015 (revision 669512301):
Khader Adnan (also Khader Adnan Mohammad Musa ) (born 24 March 1978) is a senior member of the Palestinian Islamist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and a prisoner in Israel . He was been held in prison 10 times under administrative detention, a procedure which allows Israel to detain people for periods of 6 months, each renewable, without the filing of charges or a trial. As of June 15, 2015, Israeli authorities had not laid any formal charges against him, but have repeatedly held him for reasons such as “activities that threaten regional security.” A visit by an International Committee of the Red Cross delegation was cancelled after Israel injhsisted their visit be conducted in…
2025 (revision 1297903386):
Palestinian political activist and prisoner (1978–2023) Khader Adnan Mohammad Musa ( Arabic : خضر عدنان محمد موسى , romanized : Khaḍr ʿAdnān Muḥammad Mūsā ; 24 March 1978 – 2 May 2023) was a Palestinian activist and prisoner in Israel who died after an 87-day hunger strike in protest of his detention without trial . By the time of his death, he had been arrested 12 times by Israel. He became prominent as a figure after a 66-day hunger strike in 2011 that led to a mass hunger strike among Palestinian prisoners and his ultimate release. In the early 2000s, Adnan was a spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a group that militantly opposes Israel, and Adnan was convicted for his rol…
Related
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- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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