The Investigative Project on Terrorism: what Wikipedia removed

A research group founded by Steven Emerson in 1995, following his 1994 documentary “Terrorists Among Us: Jihad in America,” which aired before the September 11 attacks. Through 2020 the opening named that founding documentary. Today the opening drops the documentary’s name and states instead that the organization “has been called a prominent part of the ‘Islamophobia network’… and a ‘leading source of anti-Muslim racism,’” though jihad survives five times in the body. A reader arriving now learns how critics characterize the organization and not the documentary that led to its founding.

The word “jihad” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 5. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 4 moments between 2015 and 2025. Everything below is Wikipedia’s own text, quoted from those saved copies. The interactive version, with every snapshot side by side and each removal marked in place, is at ilroot.com/case/the-investigative-project-on-terrorism.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2015	2020	6 October 2023	2025
jihad	0	2	0	0
terror	1	4	2	2

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

What was taken out

• The organization’s founding description, reworded rather than removed.
• A citation fragment referencing Arabs and the organization, dropped with the passage it supported.

How it opened then, and now

2015 (revision 575420623):

Redirect to: Investigative Project on Terrorism

2025 (revision 1297125153):

Non-profit organization in the US The Investigative Project on Terrorism ( IPT ) is a non-profit research group founded by Steven Emerson in 1995. IPT has been called a prominent part of the ” Islamophobia network” within the United States and a “leading source of anti-Muslim racism” and noted for its record of selective reporting and poor scholarship. ^ “About The Investigative Project on Terrorism” . IPT . Retrieved March 3, 2014 . ^ Cite error: The named reference Barrett was invoked but never defined (see the help page ). ^ Cite error: The named reference P&P was invoked but never defined (see the help page ). ^ Saylor, Corey (2014). “The U.S. Islamophobia Network: Its Funding and Impact…

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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