Khalid Jawad: what Wikipedia removed
Another of the eight Black September perpetrators of Munich. October 2023: “a Palestinian terrorist”. Today, live-checked: “a Palestinian militant and one of eight Black September militants”. The swap is verbatim; terror survives once, in the body.
The word “terror” appeared 4 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 6 October 2023. 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 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| militant | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| massacre | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| hostage | 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 iconic ski-mask photograph lost its label; the famous image is now of a militant.
- The cited history of the Munich massacre left the article along with the word.
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:
- 2023-10-24, Egeymi, edit summary: “repositioned 1 ref” (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2020 (revision 958627754):
Khalid Jawad (1954 –6 September 1972) was one of eight Black September terrorists that invaded the Israeli quarters at the Munich Olympic Village during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games taking hostage nine of the Israeli Olympic delegation after killing Israeli wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano in the initial takeover. It has been suggested that Jawad was the terrorist wearing the ski mask featured in images that became iconic of this atrocity. ^ Reeve, Simon (2000). One day in September : the full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and the Israeli revenge operation “Wrath of God” (1st U.S. ed.). New York: Arcade. p. 173 . ISBN 1-55970-547-7 . ^ Davis, David …
2026 (revision 1335813472):
Palestinian militant (1954–1972) Khalid Jawad (1954 – 6 September 1972) was a Palestinian militant and one of eight Black September militants that invaded the Israeli quarters at the Munich Olympic Village during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games , taking hostage nine members of the Israeli Olympic delegation after killing Israeli wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano in the initial takeover. It has been suggested that Jawad was wearing the ski mask featured in images that became iconic of this atrocity. ^ Davis, David (1 March 2017). “The Story Behind the Masked Horror of the Munich Olympics” . Deadspin .
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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