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A Geneva-based NGO whose stated mission includes monitoring antisemitism at the United Nations. Through October 6 2023 the opening said UN Watch is “frequently critical of anti-Israel and antisemitic sentiment at the UN and UN-sponsored events.” Today the opening says only that UN Watch “denounces what it views as anti-Israel sentiment,” with antisemitic dropped, though the word survives three times in the body. A reader arriving now learns the group monitors anti-Israel sentiment and not that its stated mission names antisemitism specifically.

The word “antisemitism” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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word2010201520206 October 20232025
antisemitism12220

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 of UN Watch’s human-rights work, reworded rather than removed.
  • The statement that UN Watch is frequently critical of antisemitic sentiment at the UN, dropped from the opening.
  • The statement that the NGO monitors candidate countries’ qualifications for UN bodies, dropped from the opening.
  • The note that the group was praised by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, dropped from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 370573740):

UN Watch is a Geneva-based NGO whose stated mission is “to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter ” . It is an accredited NGO in Special Consultative Status to the UN Economic and Social Council and an Associate NGO to the UN Department of Public Information . It is affiliated with the American Jewish Committee , an international think tank and advocacy organization established in 1906 which was a pioneer advocate of the UN Charter’s inclusion of international human rights guarantees as well as the creation of the post of a High Commissioner for Human Rights . UN Watch has been active in combating perceived human rights abuses in Congo and Darfur , …

2025 (revision 1291748357):

Non-governmental organization UN Watch is a Geneva-based non-governmental organization (NGO) whose stated mission is “to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter ”. It is an accredited NGO in Special Consultative Status to the UN Economic and Social Council and an Associate NGO to the UN Department of Public Information . Agence France-Presse has described UN Watch as “a lobby group with strong ties to Israel”. The organisation has been active in denouncing human rights abuses worldwide, for instance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Darfur , China, Cuba, Russia and Venezuela, often using its allotted time at the UNHRC to allow for dissidents …

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