Tali Fahima: what Wikipedia removed
An Israeli activist convicted for her contacts with Zakaria Zubeidi, described in the opening as Jenin chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. Through 2020 the opening described Zubeidi’s own “transformation from peace activist to wanted terrorist.” Today the opening calls him only “Jenin chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, an armed faction close to Fatah,” with terrorist dropped, though the word survives twice in the body. A reader arriving now learns Zubeidi led an armed faction and not that Wikipedia itself once called him a wanted terrorist.
The word “terror” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 2. 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 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| militant | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| martyr | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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”- The statement that Fahima describes her own nationality as Palestinian, dropped from the opening.
- The description of Zubeidi’s transformation “from peace activist to wanted terrorist,” dropped from the opening.
- The account of her conversion to Islam, reworded rather than removed.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 369569869):
Tali Fahima sticker, 2005 File:Tali Fahima.JPG Tali Fahima, January 2007 Tali Fahima ( Template:Lang-he ; born 1976) is an Israeli woman of Algerian Jewish family background, who was tried and convicted for her contacts with Zakaria Zubeidi , Jenin chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades . She describes her nationality as Palestinian and has converted to Islam . She grew up in a single parent family in Qiryat Gat , a town in the south of Israel. Until 2003 she was a Likud supporter; she then read an interview in which Zubeidi described his transformation from peace activist to wanted terrorist; intrigued, she found Zubeidi’s phone number, and spoke with him several times. When she learned tha…
2025 (revision 1271403625):
Israeli pro-Palestinian activist Tali Fahima sticker, 2005 Tali Fahima ( Arabic : طالي فحيمة , Hebrew : טלי פחימה ; born 8 February 1976) is an Israeli of Algerian Jewish origin and pro-Palestinian activist who was convicted for her contacts with Zakaria Zubeidi , Jenin chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades , an armed faction close to Fatah . In June 2010, she converted to Islam at a mosque in Umm al-Fahm . ^ “Tali Fahima’s Journey to Islam” . Allison Kaplan Sommer for The Forward . 11 June 2010 . Retrieved 6 September 2021 . ^ Roffe-Ofir, Sharon (8 June 2010). “Leftist Tali Fahima converts to Islam” . Ynet . Retrieved 8 June 2010 . ^ “Left-wing Activist Tali Fahima Converts to Islam” . Haa…
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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