Snow White and the Madness of Truth: what Wikipedia removed
An art installation shown in Stockholm in 2004 carrying a portrait of Hanadi Jaradat, a Palestinian suicide bomber who killed 21 Jewish and Arab Israelis and injured 51 more, an installation Israel’s ambassador called antisemitic. Through 2015 the opening carried the dispute over that charge, including a claim it was not truly “an anti-Semitic installation.” Today the opening describes the artwork and the bombing it depicts but says nothing about the antisemitism controversy at all, though the word survives three times in the body. A reader arriving now learns what the installation showed and not that it was condemned as antisemitic or that the charge itself became a controversy.
The word “antisemitism” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. 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 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| antisemitism | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| terror | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| genocide | 1 | 0 | 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
Section titled “What was taken out”- A duplicate title caption, dropped as redundant text.
- The line noting the installation made international news in early 2004, dropped from the opening.
- The description of the Bach cantata played during the installation, reworded rather than removed.
- The analysis suggesting the antisemitism controversy was used to paint Sweden and the EU as antisemitic to pressure them over Middle East policy, dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 16285198):
Snow White and The Madness of Truth ( Swedish : Snövit och sanningens vansinne ) is a work of art by Israeli -born Swedish composer/musician Dror Feiler (music) and his Swedish wife artist Gunilla Sköld-Feiler (visuals), in the Museum of National Antiquities ( Historiska muséet ) in Stockholm , Sweden . In early 2004 the artwork made a brief splash of international news after the Israeli ambassador Zvi Mazel vandalized it January 16 , 2004, by disconnecting the electricity and tipping one of the lights into the water causing a short circuit. The entire event was filmed by a news team. Zvi Mazel was asked to leave, but refused and had to be escorted out by museum security. Zvi Mazel has later…
2025 (revision 1286250445):
Artwork by Dror Feiler and Gunilla Sköld-Feiler The installation Snow White and the Madness of Truth . Snow White and the Madness of Truth ( Swedish : Snövit och sanningens vansinne ) was a 2004 item of installation art by Swedish , Israeli -born composer and musician Dror Feiler and his Swedish wife, artist Gunilla Sköld-Feiler. Feiler and Sköld-Feiler created the visuals and the music for the artwork together, which was installed in the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm , Sweden. The installation consisted of a long pool of water coloured blood red, upon which floated a small white boat named “Snövit” (“Snow White”) carrying a smiling portrait of Hanadi Jaradat , a Palestinian suicide bo…
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