Israel–Palestine

Palestine

The English article's framing moved away from the other-language editions during a major rewrite.

Candidate only — not a conclusion.

Overview

The English article's framing moved away from the other-language editions during a major rewrite.

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Layers on this page

Framing
Facts
Diff
Sources
Revisions

Discovery path. Surfaced via L4 graph-guided discovery seeded from Zionism (search prior only — this article was re-tested on its own content). Class: retrofit lead.

Edit-war intensity

low 6,795 conflict weight over 5,673 revisions.

Low mutual-revert activity — changes were not heavily fought. Context only — contested ≠ biased.

Current text: median age 2.3 yr · 67.5% authored in the last 3 years · top-10 editors wrote 64.2% of it (472 distinct editors). Descriptive context only.

Use the tabs for framing grids, fact tables, diffs, citation change, and revisions. Deep-link with #framing, #facts, #diff, #sources, #revisions.

How the editions frame it

How language editions frame the same subject (critical / neutral / sympathetic). Gaps are a signal to inspect, not a conclusion.

Across editions, the framing differ moderately (divergence 0.67 on a 0–2 scale).

	en	he	ar
Israel
en · Israel — these acts have been recognised as constituting genocide against the Palestinian people by a growing scholarly consensus
he · Israel — בתגובה להכרזת העצמאות של מדינת ישראל במאי 1948, הקימה הליגה הערבית בעזה את ממשלת כל פלסטין
ar · Israel — احتلت إسرائيل الأراضي الفلسطينية منذ حرب 1967... غزة تحكمها حركة حماس وتحت حصار طويل الأمد تطبقه إسرائيل
Palestinians
en · Palestinians — the forcible displacement of a majority of the Arab population...these events are referred to by Palestinians as the Nakba ('catastrophe')
he · Palestinians — היא מדינה ששואפים להקים חלק ניכר מהפלסטינים
ar · Palestinians — المنطقة الجغرافية للأرض الفلسطينية التي تحتلها إسرائيل منذ عام 1967... الأرض التي تطالب بها دولة فلسطين
Zionism
en · Zionism — The onset of the Zionist movement, which sought to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine, also exercised a strong influence on Palestinian national consciousness
he · Zionism — התנועה הציונית החליטה לשתף פעולה עם הוועדה, בעוד ההנהגה הפלסטינית החרימה אותה
ar · Zionism — أعلنت الوكالة اليهودية لإسرائيل قيام دولة إسرائيل وفق خطة الأمم المتحدة المقترحة

Israel

Palestinians

Zionism

criticalneutralsympatheticabsent ! = departs from neutral · click a cell for the evidence quote

Across the rewrite. Before the major rewrite the editions largely agreed on framing; afterward, the English edition moved away from them. That divergence-at-a-rewrite is the strongest kind of lead.

Do the editions agree on facts?

Whether editions agree on load-bearing facts (counts, categories). Contradictions — especially ones later corrected — are worth checking.

factual question	now
When did the British Mandate for Palestine begin and end?	differ
en gives start dates (1920/1922) with no end; he gives end date (May 15, 1948) with no start; ar states neither; not contradictory, just partial/complementary.
What is the stated origin of the name 'Palestine'?	differ
All link name to Philistines/Greek usage, but he adds Semitic root and Roman renaming detail not mentioned in en/ar; differing emphasis, not incompatible.
What was the approximate population and its religious/ethnic composition in Palestine circa 1900?	agree
All three editions state this information is not provided in the passage.

factual question

now

When did the British Mandate for Palestine begin and end?

differ

en gives start dates (1920/1922) with no end; he gives end date (May 15, 1948) with no start; ar states neither; not contradictory, just partial/complementary.

What is the stated origin of the name 'Palestine'?

differ

All link name to Philistines/Greek usage, but he adds Semitic root and Roman renaming detail not mentioned in en/ar; differing emphasis, not incompatible.

What was the approximate population and its religious/ethnic composition in Palestine circa 1900?

agree

All three editions state this information is not provided in the passage.

Shared-source overlap (context only, skewed by edition language): now: 0.24.

What changed, and when

Side-by-side before / after of the English article around its heaviest rewrite windows.

The article was heavily rewritten at these pivots. Open one to read the before → after as tracked changes.

2010-07-01 → 2011-07-01 · 33% rewritten 2013-01-01 → 2013-07-01 · 50% rewritten 2015-07-01 → 2016-01-01 · 70% rewritten

What the sourcing changed

How the article's own citations changed from → to across the rewrite — domains added or dropped. Composition only; no source is rated.

2014-01-01 → 2026-07-01 (across the L1 pivot ~2015-07-01). References 288 → 489; distinct domains 111 → 247.

Citation-type mix: web 40%, book 28%, news 26%, journal 7% → web 66%, news 15%, book 13%, journal 5%, report 2%, press 0%.

source added / grown	from → to
aljazeera.com	2 → 19
theguardian.com	0 → 13
archive.org	2 → 9
pcbs.gov.ps	1 → 8
apnews.com	0 → 6
edition.cnn.com	1 → 7
english.wafa.ps	2 → 8
un.org	6 → 12
ochaopt.org	0 → 5
reuters.com	3 → 8
cia.gov	3 → 8
press.un.org	0 → 4

source dropped / reduced	from → to
books.google.com	14 → 7
digicoll.library.wisc.edu	7 → 0
haaretz.com	8 → 3
books.google.ca	4 → 0
unispal.un.org	5 → 2
icj-cij.org	7 → 4
domino.un.org	3 → 0
al-bab.com	2 → 0
usaid.gov	2 → 0
huffingtonpost.com	2 → 0
telegraph.co.uk	2 → 0
yale.edu	2 → 0

Domains counted from citation markup (archive links unwrapped to the original source).

The exact Wikipedia revisions each finding was computed from, so anyone can verify. Wikidata Q219060.

edition	title	revision	timestamp	prose
en	Palestine	rev 1363394407	2026-07-09T23:07:14Z	90,463
he	מדינה פלסטינית	rev 43270385	2026-05-18T07:23:30Z	21,728
ar	دولة فلسطين	rev 75814181	2026-07-05T18:21:48Z	98,420