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Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine: what Wikipedia removed

TULIP was a trade union organization promoting cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian unions and opposing boycotts of Israel. The 2010 opening stated that opposition to Israel sometimes “spills over into anti-Semitism.” Today the word antisemitism occurs nowhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that TULIP’s own stated reasoning for opposing boycotts of Israel was that such campaigns sometimes turn into antisemitism.

The word “antisemitism” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. 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 description was updated from present to past tense, with no other change to the substance quoted here.
  • The description of TULIP’s core mission to promote cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians, dropped from the opening.
  • The organization’s own statement that opposition to Israel can spill into antisemitism, dropped from the opening.
  • The description of TULIP’s ‘No to Racism’ campaign poster, dropped from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 345555596):

Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine (TULIP) is an organization of unions located in various countries around the world. Its main goal is to promote cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians. it also aims to counter some efforts in other countries to promote boycotts of Israel. It aims to promote freedom of economic activity in both countries. Its founding statement issued on its website talks of “national unions and trade union centres” that have “rallied behind those Palestinians who are opposed to the peace process.” It goes on to say “They are attempting to demonise the Jewish state, to deny it legitimacy, and to whip up hatred against it. Sometimes that hatred even spills over …

2025 (revision 1142726608):

Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine (TULIP) was an organisation of unions located in various countries around the world. Its stated main goal was to promote cooperation and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians. It supported a two-state solution and opposed boycotts, divestment, and sanctions . Its website had three language options: English, German and Hebrew. It was not translated into Arabic. ^ Trade union calls for cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian workers , Executive Members of TULIP, jpost.com, May 24, 2009.

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