Naz Shah: what Wikipedia removed
Naz Shah is a British Labour MP who was suspended from the party in 2016 and publicly admitted to using antisemitic language in past social media posts. Through October 2023 the opening quoted her: “The language I used was anti-Semitic, it was offensive,” she said. Today the opening covers only her constituency and parliamentary roles with no mention of the episode, and antisemitism appears zero times in the opening though it survives twenty-three times in the article. A reader today learns her constituency and committee roles, and not that she publicly admitted her past language was antisemitic.
The word “antisemitism” appeared 3 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 23. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| antisemitism | 0 | 3 | 2 | 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”- A disambiguation note identifying her as the politician Naseem Shah, reworded in the current opening.
- Her own quoted admission that the language she used was antisemitic, dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2015 (revision 666811827):
Naseem “Naz” Shah (born 13 November 1973) is a Labour politician in the United Kingdom and the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Bradford West since gaining the seat at the 2015 general election from George Galloway of the Respect Party . ^ Rosemary Hunter; Clare McGlynn; Erika Rackley (30 September 2010). Feminist Judgments: From Theory to Practice . Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 279–. ISBN 978-1-84731-727-8 . ^ “Bradford West Parliamentary constituency” . BBC News . Retrieved 7 May 2015 .
2025 (revision 1283791250):
British Labour Party politician (born 1973) Personal details Born Naseem Shah ( 1973-11-13 ) 13 November 1973 (age 52) Bradford , West Riding of Yorkshire , England Party Labour Website Official website Naseem Shah ( Urdu : ناز شاہ ; born 13 November 1973) is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West since 2015 . She served in the Opposition frontbench from 2018 to 2023, most recently as Shadow Minister for Crime Reduction. ^ Hunter, Rosemary; McGlynn, Clare; Rackley, Erika (30 September 2010). Feminist Judgments: From Theory to Practice . Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 279–. ISBN 978-1-84731-727-8 . Archived from the original on 15 December 2019 …
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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