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The Green Hand Gang: what Wikipedia removed

The Green Hand Gang was an anti-Zionist armed group active in the Safed and Acre districts of Mandate Palestine from 1929. The opening once said the group formed “following a number of attacks on Jewish communities during the 1929 Palestine riots and the Safed massacre of August 1929.” The word is gone from the article today, and the opening now reads only “attacks on Jewish communities during the 1929 Palestine riots of August 1929.” A reader today does not learn that the specific event named was the Safed massacre, in which Jews were killed in the city of Safed in August 1929.

The word “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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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 Safed massacre is no longer named; the passage now refers only to the 1929 Palestine riots generally.

How it opened then, and now

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2015 (revision 645313032):

The Green Hand Gang was an anti-Zionist and anti-British armed group that existed between October 1929 and mid-1930 in the Safed and Acre districts of northern Palestine during the British Mandate period. The group was formed by Ahmed Tafish in October 1929 following a number of attacks on Jewish communities during the 1929 Palestine riots and the Safed massacre of August 1929. Its first operation was against the Jewish quarter of Safed in cooperation with local supporters in the town. In the following month the group was augmented by the arrival of several Druze fighters. including Fuad el Libnani , who had taken part in the 1925 Great Syrian Revolt against the French. In November, followin…

2025 (revision 1215094130):

The Green Hand Gang was an anti-Zionist and anti-British armed group that existed between October 1929 and mid-1930 in the Safed and Acre districts of northern Palestine during the British Mandate period. The group was formed in October 1929 following a number of attacks on Jewish communities during the 1929 Palestine riots of August 1929. Its founder, Ahmed Tafish , was a Druze from Safed. The group’s first operation was against the Jewish quarter of Safed in cooperation with local supporters in the town. In the following month the group was augmented by the arrival of several Druze fighters, including Fuad el Libnani , who had taken part in the 1925 Great Syrian Revolt against the French. …

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