List of Jews in sports: what Wikipedia removed
This is a list of Jewish athletes who reached the top tier of international competition. Through 2015 the opening paragraph noted that “Anti-Semites such as Henry Ford, for their part, have tried energetically to conceal the fact of Jewish participation in sports,” citing Ford’s claim that “Jews are not sportsmen.” Today the opening carries none of this, though the word survives once in the body. A reader arriving now learns the criteria for inclusion on the list and not that a documented antisemite tried to erase the record of Jewish athletic achievement.
The word “antisemitism” appeared 1 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 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| antisemitism | 0 | 1 | 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 defining this as a list of Jewish athletes with outstanding achievements, altered from an earlier version of the opening.
- The framing of Jewish sports participation as a subject discussed extensively in academic and popular literature, reworded in the current opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 371274057):
Jews in sports refers to athletes of Jewish heritage who have attained outstanding achievements in sports . The criteria for inclusion in this list are: a) 1–3 places winners at major international tournaments; b) for team sports , winning in preliminary competitions of finals at major international tournaments, or playing for several seasons for clubs of major national leagues; or c) owners of past and current world records . Bolding denotes current competitor. The topic of Jewish participation in sports is discussed extensively in academic and popular literature, in part because of its relevance to the common stereotype of Jews as non- athletic , and also because of the perceived role of s…
2025 (revision 1296892876):
See also: List of Jews in sports (non-players) This list of Jewish athletes in sports contains athletes who are Jewish and have attained outstanding achievements in sports. The topic of Jewish participation in sports is discussed extensively in academic and popular literature. Sports have been a historical avenue for Jewish people to overcome obstacles toward their participation in secular society. Many Jewish people immigrated from the countries where they had faced persecution to the United States or have made an Aliyah to the State of Israel . The criteria for inclusion in this list are: 1–3 places winners at major international tournaments; For team sports , winning in preliminary compet…
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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