Israel–Palestine
History of Zionism
Wording shifted clearly
Something to inspect — not a judgment of bias or bad faith.
Overview
Use this briefing to choose what to inspect. The tabs contain the underlying comparisons.
Open the live English Wikipedia article ↗The saved exact result does not match the current local corpus or detector thresholds. It is withheld until refreshed, rather than shown as a current finding.
Different websites cited: 15 → 44. We do not rate those sites. See Citations.
3 configured questions checked in more than one language. See Facts.
Did editors fight over it?
The page was not dominated by back-and-forth undoing. A quiet rewrite can still matter — it just means few people fought it on the page. About 1,368 recorded revisions in the measure.
Who wrote today’s text?
Half of the wording still on the page is about 13.6 years old or newer. 19.4% was written in the last 3 years. The ten most active accounts wrote 87.0% of what is there now (most of the current text comes from a small group of accounts; 159 different accounts overall). Snapshot data on this page runs through 2023-07-01.This is background only — a small group of writers is common on specialist pages.
Available evidence: Vocabulary, Citations, Facts, Versions.
Not available in this export: Rewrite, Framing. Missing coverage is not a negative finding.
Rewrite analysis needs refresh
The saved exact result does not match the current local corpus or detector thresholds. It is withheld until refreshed, rather than shown as a current finding.
Persistence-weighted changeThe share of wording lost, weighted so text that survived more snapshots counts more. by interval
Each row reports established wording lost, standing wording gained, and paired change as a replacement lead. The bar shows loss for continuity with earlier reports. Below-floor anomalies remain descriptive evidence but cannot receive exact confirmation. A coverage gap is shown descriptively but excluded from detector decisions. Candidate-window labels report the exact revision-level decision for the broader window containing that interval.
How the detector reached this state
- 1 · Coarse scanA snapshot comparison that finds candidate windows for closer inspection.Candidate signal foundThe coarse scan found a deletion-heavy window worth exact checking.
- 2 · Interval scoring37 intervals scoredThe bars below show persistence-weighted wording loss for each interval.
- 3 · Exact checkA revision-level test of whether a candidate window's durable spine collapsed.UnavailableNo current revision-level decision can be published.
- 2008-07-01Loss 35.2%5,107 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2009-01-01Loss 1.4%329 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2009-07-01Loss 15.8%6,285 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2010-01-01Loss 6.9%3,489 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2010-07-01Loss 7.7%5,033 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2011-01-01Loss 0.9%699 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2011-07-01Loss 3.2%3,254 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2012-01-01Loss 0.0%27 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2012-07-01Loss 0.8%1,053 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2013-01-01Loss 0.1%113 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2013-07-01Loss 0.1%228 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2014-01-01Loss 0.0%55 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2014-07-01Loss 0.3%584 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2015-01-01Loss 0.4%1,011 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2015-07-01Loss 2.4%6,188 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2016-01-01Loss 1.0%2,739 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2016-07-01Loss 0.1%242 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2017-01-01Loss 0.3%942 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2017-07-01Loss 0.6%2,138 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2018-01-01Loss 0.9%3,261 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2018-07-01Loss 0.1%174 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2019-01-01Loss 0.0%2 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2019-07-01Loss 0.1%337 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2020-01-01Loss 0.1%462 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2020-07-01Loss 0.4%2,112 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2021-01-01Loss 0.5%2,568 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2021-07-01Loss 0.5%2,400 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2022-01-01Loss 0.4%2,226 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2022-07-01Loss 1.1%6,130 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2023-01-01Loss 0.2%925 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2023-07-01Loss 20.9%127,419 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2024-01-01Loss 2.4%11,995 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2024-07-01Loss 0.0%63 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2025-01-01Loss 0.4%2,913 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2025-07-01Loss 0.9%6,545 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2026-01-01Loss 0.6%4,163 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
- 2026-07-01Loss 56.5%437,410 removed · 0 added PWRMeasured: no anomaly threshold crossed
Which words grew or shrank?
Words that became more common or less common between the compared versions. Handy for noticing a shift in topic or tone — not a score of bias.
Comparing 2008-01-01 -> 2023-07-01 (no L1 pivot — whole history). Rough word count: 5,464 → 8,718. Overall: wording shifted clearly.
Used more afterward
- betar0 → 20
- central0 → 7
- levin0 → 7
- nora0 → 7
- trumpeldor0 → 7
- america0 → 6
- fee0 → 6
- jehuda0 → 6
- paying0 → 6
- president0 → 6
- protocols0 → 6
- reinharz0 → 6
Used less afterward
- isbn5 → 0
- attempted4 → 0
- finkelstein4 → 0
- too4 → 0
- expulsion3 → 0
- hilchos3 → 0
- intellectual3 → 0
- nasser3 → 0
- thinker3 → 0
- upon3 → 0
- whether3 → 0
- even7 → 1
These are the standout words, not a full dictionary of the article. Boring markup words are filtered out. Treat this as a hint, not a conclusion.
How the footnotes changed
How the article's own footnotes changed across the rewrite: which websites and books were cited more or less. We only show the mix — we do not rate sources as good or bad.
Looking at 2008-01-01 → 2023-07-01 (no L1 pivot — whole history): 39 websites were cited more (or newly), 6 less (or dropped). Number of footnotes: 42 → 146. Different websites: 15 → 44.
Mix of citation types: book 67%, web 33% → web 48%, book 46%, journal 4%, news 2%.
| cited more often | before → after |
|---|---|
| books.google.com | 0 → 11 |
| hagshama.org.il | 0 → 4 |
| bjpa.org | 0 → 3 |
| amazon.com | 0 → 3 |
| mideastweb.org | 2 → 4 |
| lds.org | 0 → 2 |
| ajhs.org | 0 → 2 |
| gemsinisrael.com | 0 → 2 |
| zionism-israel.com | 0 → 2 |
| passia.org | 0 → 2 |
| axt.org.uk | 0 → 2 |
| masortiworld.org | 0 → 2 |
| cited less often | before → after |
|---|---|
| weizmann.ac.il | 1 → 0 |
| marxists.de | 1 → 0 |
| classes.maxwell.syr.edu | 1 → 0 |
| worldjewishcongress.org | 1 → 0 |
| religioustolerance.org | 1 → 0 |
| yale.edu | 1 → 0 |
Counted from the article’s own footnotes. We list domains only — we do not call any source trustworthy or untrustworthy.
Do the languages agree on basic facts?
Simple factual questions checked in several languages. Editions may agree, differ, contradict, or not say enough to tell. That is not a claim about who is right.
On the latest check, 3 questions produced: 0 contradict · 0 compatible difference · 2 agree · 1 not enough said.
| question | today |
|---|---|
| In what year and city was the First Zionist Congress held, and who convened it? | not enough said |
| Most editions state nothing specific about the congress; only ur (and partially uk) give Basel 1897 with Herzl, others only mention 1897 founding without city/congress detail. | |
| Approximately when did the modern political Zionist movement emerge? | agree |
| All editions converge on 1897 or late 19th century, consistent framing of the same period. | |
| In what geographic region did the movement seek to establish a Jewish homeland? | agree |
| All editions agree the goal was Palestine/Land of Israel, with en adding specific geographic boundaries. | |
These checks are starting points for a reader. They do not decide who is right.
Versions we used
These are the exact public Wikipedia versions behind the checks on this page. Open any link to read the original. Wikidata item: Q3137945.
| language | comparison point | article title | version | when | text used (chars) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| en | saved | History of Zionism | open version 1363787877 | 2026-07-12T12:40:08Z | 147,410 |
| ar | saved | تاريخ الصهيونية | open version 72048042 | 2025-09-16T10:35:18Z | 6,305 |