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Palestinian political violence: what Wikipedia removed

The article about the violence itself. “Terror” peaked at 15 mentions in the opening and stands at 8; the opening now states that the violence “includes the objective of ending the Israeli occupation”, a purpose sentence that was not there before.

The word “terror” appeared 15 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 8. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”
word20052010201520206 October 202320252026
terror1291215787
islamist0011011
jihad1222344
massacre0000011
martyr1002111
genocide0000011

Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • The article once defined its own subject as violence or terror motivated by Palestinian nationalism. That definition is gone.
  • The 1988 renunciation of terrorism, the article’s own measure of change, removed.
  • The list of groups designated terrorist by the United States was reworded.
  • The list of who the violence has targeted, removed.
  • The description of how Israeli statistics count hostile attacks, removed.
  • The stated political objectives, removed from the opening.
  • The tactical objectives such as prisoner releases, removed.
  • The share-of-attacks statistic was reworded.
  • The motive discussion was removed from the opening.
  • A cited study, dropped with the passage it supported.

Who made the cuts

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Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:

  • 2025-12-10, Surtsicna, edit summary: “Redundancy for the sake of boldface is absurd and does not help readers. See [[WP:Superfluous bolding explained]] and [[” (see the diff)
  • 2024-07-29, Vice regent, edit summary: “please see talk, when I mentioned this there, one editor supported it and no one opposed it” (see the diff)
  • 2021-03-11, Nableezy, edit summary: “fix terrible writing” (see the diff)
  • 2023-04-05, Iskandar323, edit summary: “Moving material found only in the lead and not in the body into the body, per [[MOS:LEAD]]” (see the diff)
  • 2025-03-19, Drmies, edit summary: ”/* top */ so “many countries”—simple. and the sourcing was atrocious—three nationalities weren’t sourced at all, and t” (see the diff)
  • 2023-04-05, Dovidroth, edit summary: “2,500 + 1,000 = 3,500 (see [[WP:CALC]]), removing unsupported sentence” (see the diff)
  • 2022-10-19, Iskandar323, edit summary: “Clarifying with an ‘or’ and reducing duplication of ‘liberation’ motives etc.” (see the diff)
  • 2021-08-23, Vanlister, edit summary: “Référence specific to the intifada, types completed” (see the diff)
  • 2022-10-18, Iskandar323, edit summary: “Removing unreliable government sources” (see the diff)
  • 2024-04-26, Nableezy, edit summary: “Undid revision [[Special:Diff/1220836634|1220836634]] by [[Special:Contributions/Galamore|Galamore]] ([[User talk:Galamo” (see the diff)

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 17983341):

Organizational structures Financing Fronting Radicalization ( online ) Training camp Death squad Clandestine cell system Leaderless resistance Lone wolf Domestic Methods Tactics Agro-terrorism Aircraft hijacking list Beheading Guillotine #Reign of Terror Islamic views Salafi Bombing Animal-borne Car list Improvised Letter Proxy Threat Bioterrorism Cyberterrorism Dry run Environmental Hostage-taking Incitement to terrorism Individual terror Insurgency Kidnapping Nuclear Paper Piracy Propaganda of the deed Shooting School Spree Stabbing Stochastic Suicide attack Country categories Rockets and mortars Urban terrorism Vehicle-ramming Relationship to states Response to terrorism v t e Template:To…

2026 (revision 1366042003):

This article is about political violence committed by Palestinians. For political violence in Palestine committed by Zionists, see Zionist political violence . For the historical label to describe some of its perpetrators, see Palestinian fedayeen . Palestinian insurgents fighting against British forces during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine Palestinian fedayeen at a Fatah rally in Beirut, Lebanon in 1979 Hamas ’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades , on parade in 2011 As Palestinians have not had a fully recognized state with a regular army , much of Palestinian political violence in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has taken the form of insurgency . Common objectives…

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