Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2001: what Wikipedia removed

Wikipedia’s own list of attacks against Israel in 2001. Through 2005 the opening titled itself “Terrorism against Israel in 2001” and described the excluded incidents as those that “failed to murder, maim, or wound.” Today the opening drops the “Terrorism against Israel” title entirely and softens murder to kill, while adding that “no Palestinian deaths are recorded,” though terror survives 12 times in the body. A reader arriving now learns this is a list of attacks on Israelis and not that Wikipedia itself once titled it a record of terrorism against Israel.

The word “terror” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 12. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 6 moments between 2005 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/timeline-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-in-2001.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2005	2010	2015	2020	6 October 2023	2025
terror	2	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

• The heading titling the list “Terrorism against Israel in 2001,” reworded out of the opening.
• The description of failed attacks changed from “murder” to “kill.”

How it opened then, and now

2005 (revision 17808452):

Terrorism against Israel in 2001 Note: This compilation includes only those attacks that resulted in casualties. Numerous other attacks which failed to murder , maim , or wound are not included. Terrorism against Israel : 2000 - 2001 - 2002 2003 2004

2025 (revision 1295023841):

Note: This compilation includes only those attacks on Israelis that resulted in casualties and no Palestinian deaths are recorded. Numerous other attacks which failed to kill, maim , or wound are not included.

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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