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The Shaw Commission investigated the August 1929 Palestine riots, including the violence against the Jewish community in Hebron. The 2010 opening said, “A general massacre of the Jewish community at Hebron was narrowly averted,” following a line about the destruction of Jewish property. Today the opening carries no mention of a massacre; it says only that the Commission “concluded that the conflict was not religious in nature.” A reader today does not learn that a mass killing of the Jewish community at Hebron was described, in Wikipedia’s own voice, as narrowly averted.

The word “occupation” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

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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 line stating that a general massacre of the Jewish community at Hebron was narrowly averted, dropped from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 17411929):

A British commission into Palestine in 1929, headed by Sir Walter Shaw . The aim was to look into the reasons for the violence that occurred during the 1929 Wailing Wall Disturbances . Conclusion of Shaw Report: the main source of tension within the mandate was the creation of a landless class of discontented Arabs and the widespread Arab fear that continued Jewish immigration would result in a Jewish-dominated Palestine. Recommendations: British obligations to the Arab community should be more precisely defined, that Jewish immigration should be brought directly under British control, and that the practice of evicting Arab tenants following land transfers should cease.

2025 (revision 1291988614):

Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929 The Shaw Report , officially the Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929 , commonly known as the Shaw Commission , was the result of a British commission of inquiry, led by Sir Walter Shaw, established to investigate the violent rioting in Palestine in late August 1929. The commission’s report was issued in March 1930 and led to the establishment of the Hope Simpson Enquiry in May 1930. While the violence was the direct result of an ongoing dispute over the Jews’ ability to worship freely at the Western Wall , and the fear of obstruction of Palestinian Natives in their ability to access their …

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