Lehava: what Wikipedia removed
The 2015 opening recorded Israel’s own Defense Minister moving to “categorize Lehava as a terrorist organization”. Today: 0 in the opening, 12 in the body.
The word “terror” appeared 4 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 12. 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 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| islamist | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| apartheid | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| occupation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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”- Israel’s own Defense Minister moving to designate this Jewish group as terrorist, removed. We publish it because it is the same test applied evenly.
- The group’s actual purpose, softened out of the opening.
- The translation of the group’s own name, removed.
- The group’s own stated mission, 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:
- 2017-05-06, 77.119.130.81 (see the diff)
- 2024-12-08, Challahbai15, edit summary: “Miscegenation is not the correct term, as there is no “Jewish race”, but rather a Jewish ethnic group and nation.” (see the diff)
- 2022-05-01, Ganesha811, edit summary: “undue for lead, move” (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2015 (revision 665781353):
Lehava ( Template:Lang-he , LeMeniat Hitbolelut B’eretz HaKodesh , lit. [Organization for] Prevention of Assimilation in the Holy Land) is an Israeli organization whose primary objective is opposing assimilation of Jews, objecting to any personal or business relationships between Jews and non-Jews. It has an anti- miscegenation focus, denouncing marriages between Jewish women and non-Jewish, particularly Arab , men. It has been described as ” far-right-wing ” in the Israeli media, and its actions have been denounced by the President of Israel , Reuven Rivlin , as being like “rodents gnawing under the shared democratic and Jewish foundation of Israel.”. In January 2015 Channel 2 reported that…
2026 (revision 1366871221):
Jewish far-right organization in Israel Lehava ( להב״ה “Flame,” Hebrew : למניעת התבוללות בארץ הקודש LiMniat Hitbolelut B’eretz HaKodesh ; Prevention of Assimilation in the Holy Land ) is an Israeli far-right and Jewish supremacist organization based in Israel that strictly opposes Jewish assimilation , objecting to most personal relationships between Jews and non-Jews. It is opposed to the Christian presence in Israel. It has an anti-intermarriage focus, denouncing marriages between Jews and non-Jews forbidden by Orthodox Jewish law . The group has over 10,000 members. In 2024, the United States placed Lehava and its leader, Bentzi Gopstein , on a sanctions list for their role in fomenting I…
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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