The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: what Wikipedia removed
The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism is a 2008 book by Andrew Bostom documenting antisemitism’s history within Islam. The opening once carried an author’s note acknowledging “the references to the Aden and Moroccan massacres and the medieval pogroms” the book covers. That detail is gone from the opening, though massacre survives once elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that the book specifically documents the Aden and Moroccan massacres of Jews alongside medieval pogroms.
The word “massacre” 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.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| massacre | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| antisemitism | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 2 |
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 book’s title and description were reworded without changing their meaning.
- A continuing quote from Benny Morris, following the description of Islam’s ‘long and sorry history of anti-Semitism,’ is gone.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 326437260):
The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History is a 2008 book by Brown University professor of medicine Andrew Bostom . It has been described in the Jerusalem Post as a “collection of sources, Islamic and others, which testify to the long and sorry history of anti-Semitism in Islam .” Benny Morris writing in The New Republic calls Bostom’s book “important and deeply discouraging.” Morris discusses a great deal of material that Bostom has omitted, concluding that in many ways the anti-Semitism of the Muslim world is even worse than portrayed in the Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism. However, Benny Morris later apologized in the review for this comment, saying “Mea culpa.…
2025 (revision 1275547963):
2008 book by Andrew Bostom The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History is a 2008 book by Andrew G. Bostom . It has been described by Raphael Israeli in The Jerusalem Post as a “collection of sources, Islamic and others, which testify to the long and sorry history of anti-Semitism in Islam .” ^ Israeli, Raphael (May 15, 2008). “Bostom’s legacy” . The Jerusalem Post . Archived from the original on March 12, 2024.
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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