Masada2000: what Wikipedia removed

Masada2000 was a pro-Israel, Kahanist website whose target list of perceived “self-hating” Jews was described by critics as antisemitism itself. Through 2010 the opening quoted a source describing the list, when aimed at Jews, as “antisemitism itself, the real shit… undisguised and unambiguous,” under the heading “Antisemitism without bounds.” Today’s opening describes the site only as “extreme pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian” and “radical-Zionist,” with antisemitism surviving three times elsewhere in the article, not the opening. A reader arriving now does not learn that critics described the site’s target list of Jews as antisemitism itself.

The word “antisemitism” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 5 moments between 2010 and 2025. Everything below is Wikipedia’s own text, quoted from those saved copies. The interactive version, with every snapshot side by side and each removal marked in place, is at ilroot.com/case/masada2000.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2010	2015	2020	6 October 2023	2025
antisemitism	2	0	0	0	0
terror	1	0	0	0	0
occupation	1	0	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

• The opening’s original identification line, reworded rather than removed in substance.
• The quote describing the site’s list, when aimed at Jews, as antisemitism itself, dropped from the opening entirely.

How it opened then, and now

2010 (revision 358252010):

Masada2000 is a California -based Kahanist website created and maintained by people from the United States, Israel , Brazil , and Switzerland. Before 2001 the site was called Zion2000 . The site is named after the Masada fortress in Israel, where, during Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire , a group known as the Sicarii fought the Romans and committed mass suicide rather than surrender. According to its founders, it was established to counter “professional and deadly serious” websites with anti-Israel views. They also have said that the site will “expose Jews who genuinely despise Israel and the Jewishness it represents” and ”’ progressive ’ Jews who are into ’ social justice ’ causes for…

2025 (revision 1208962217):

California-based pro-Israeli, Kahanist political website Masada2000 was a California -based website created and maintained by people from the United States , Israel , Brazil , and Switzerland . It has been described as “extreme pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian” and “radical- Zionist ”. The site supported and often quoted the views of Meir Kahane , although it had denied being Kahanist . Before 2001 the site was called Zion2000 . ^ Brian Whitaker (January 19, 2004). “Hate mail” . The Guardian . Retrieved March 26, 2010 . ^ Menachem Wecker (May 2007). “In Defense of ‘Self-Hating’ Jews: Conversations with the Targets of Masada2000’s S.H.I.T. List” . Jewish Currents . Archived from the original on M…

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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